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English
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An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades, presenting a fresh and relevant biography seen through a post-millennial prism.
George Orwell was a prolific author, and his two masterpieces, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are regularly invoked to explain the political complexities...
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English
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"A posthumous collection of journalism and other writings by Hilary Mantel, revealing in spectacular breadth the beloved writer's cutting wit and singular voice on books, films, the royals, and her own life"--
"In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains....
Series
National Trust studies volume 1
Publisher
Trefoil Books
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xviii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"This fascinating work shares the intimate details of the Brontë sisters' lives and reveals how their imagination, creativity, and passion helped them achieve their childhood dreams of being published authors"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxix, 821 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
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English
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A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.
"Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1976.
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14 unnumbered pages, 339 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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This book remains a classic in gay liberation literature and is one of Christopher Isherwood?s greatest achievements. It covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life, from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay...
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