This account of Orwell's life focuses on what influenced Orwell, his relations with publishers and editors, and on certain key experiences in his life: the deposition that, while fighting in the Spani
This literary biography study offers a comprehensive account of Emily Dickinson's life, as a poet as well as a daughter of a prominent Amherst, Massachusetts, family. For many years accompanied by her
Covering Blake's early career, his major works (such as Songs of Innocence and of Experience) and his work as a visual artist, this new study is a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts.
This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of literary production. It thus offers a chall
Rudyard Kipling has been one of the most loved and the most loathed of English writers.Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life is a study of the forces and influences that shaped his work--including his unus
Shows how Arnold's poetry and prose grew out of his personal, social, and professional life. New analysis of commonly discussed features of Arnold's life such as the influence of his headmaster father
This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century. After th
Edmund Burke said that "writing like a lady" had become a compliment due to Burney (1752-1840). Through Madame d'Arblay's mainly comic novels (e.g. The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties ) and plays, s
Thomas Hardy is today recognised as second only to Shakespeare in the greatness of his achievement. Writer of fourteen published novels, two or three of them among the greatest in our language, of tha
In Jane Kenyon: A Literary Life, Timmerman limns the story of Kenyon's life, drawing on unpublished journals and papers of hers and recollections by her husband, the poet Donald Hall. To show how her
Bertolt Brecht: A Life is a major literary biography of one of the iconic cultural figures of the twentieth century, whose achievements are viewed alongside Picasso's and Wagner's. Offering a fresh re
Known as a beloved, longtime fiction editor at The New Yorker, William Maxwell worked closely with such legendary writers as Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, and John Cheever. His own nov
The work of Joseph Brodsky (19401996), one of Russia’s great modern poets, has been the subject of much study and debate. His life, too, is the stuff of legend, from his survival of the s
This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Asi
McMurtry is that rarest of artists, a prolific and genre-transcending writer as popular with reviewers as he is with his readers. The author of more than forty books - including essay collections, me
