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John Keats by Stephen Hebron
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: The British Library Writers' Lives | Reading Level: very good
John Keats died at an early age, leaving what have become some of the best-known English poems, such as Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Urn, Ode to Melancholy and Ode to Autumn. In this biography of Keats, Stephen Hebron traces Keats' life and development as a poet, assessing his work in the cont ...Show more
Johnson On Savage: An Account of The Life Of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers by Samual Johnson; Holmes Richard (ed)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lives That Never Grow Old Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Lives that Never Grow Old Part of a radical new series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson's book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended ...Show more
Lee Miller - On both sides of the camera by Carolyn Burke
$12.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Series: Bloomsbury Lives of Women | Reading Level: very good
Lee Miller was one of the most extraordinary photographers of the twentieth century, famous for her portraits and devastating photographs of World War Two, as well as for her legendary beauty. An art student and a "Vogue" model, she was a close friend of artists such as Picasso, Cocteau, Max Ernst and P ...Show more
Marcel Proust by Edmund White
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Penguin Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Marlon Brando by Patricia Bosworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: Lives | Reading Level: very good
Memoirs of William Hickey by William Hickey; Peter Quennell (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: The Century Lives & Letters | Reading Level: very good
Mozart by Peter Gay
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Lives | Reading Level: very good
A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life was a whirlwind of achievem ...Show more
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Brief Lives | Reading Level: very good
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: "I was in the prime of age for invention." Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, ...Show more
Offenbach by Peter Gammond
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S. | Reading Level: very good
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life by William Gray
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Literary Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
More than most writers, Robert Louis Stevenson requires a Literary Life. Fascination with Stevenson's life (the 'Stevenson biography' is almost a minor genre) has tended to eclipse his literary achievement. This study focuses on Stevenson's writing practice within the different geographical, cultural an ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more