Results for: books tagged ‘Literature’
Ways of Life: Andrew Motion
A fascinating selection of the Poet Laureate's articles about painters, poets and writers, plus some striking personal pieces. More
Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts: James Walton
Fingers on the buzzers ...Which literary character’s first ever words are: ‘How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive?’Name all five of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five. What’s the ... More
Friends of Promise: Michael Shelden
This original book gives a revealing picture of the extraordinarily talented group of men and women who produced Horizon, the foremost literary review of the 1940s. Published monthly in Bloomsbury, ... More
Secret Gardens: Humphrey Carpenter
Covering the period from the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Winnie-the-Pooh, Humphrey Carpenter examines the lives and writings of Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, George Macdonald, Louisa May Alcott, ... More
Shakespeare's Kings: John Julius Norwich
Shakespeare’s Kings is a brilliant narrative survey of a nation’s history as portrayed by the nation’s greatest writer, William Shakespeare, recounting the story of what really happened in the century ... More
Snobbery With Violence: Colin Watson
‘One of the most consistently busy of Britain’s home industries during the past fifty years has been the manufacture of crime fiction. Some three hundred writers now contribute, more or ... More
The Maker of the Omnibus: Jack Hodges
Extraordinary in its scope and ambition, The Maker of the Omnibus is the first ever comparative study of the lives of English writers, spanning styles and centuries in a compelling ... More
After Puritanism: Hugh Kingsmill
'Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to ... More
Countries of the Mind: Gillian Tindall
This compelling study explores the way the great themes of English and French fiction in the past two centuries have been expressed through writers’ sense of place. Gillian Tindall shows ... More
Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me: Jean Hartley
First published in 1989 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me is the story of how this small publishing company became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the ... More
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