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A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L.Rowse
As historian and polemicist, Rowse was deeply involved in many of the key debates of the mid-century. He combined Marxist historiography and keen English patriotism, support for modernism with deep...
The Diaries of A.L.Rowse
A.L. Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. Born in 1903, the son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker, he became one of the...
Pepys and his Contemporaries
Samuel Pepys's Diary stands with Shakespeare and the King James Bible as an indisputable treasure of English literature. As a picture of England, and especially of London, in the age...
Cromwell's Earl
Samuel Pepys is perhaps the best-known instance of the zest and versatility that characterize the second half of the 17th century, but his cousin and patron Edward Montague, first Earl...
Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: -This compelling biography, Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A, chronicles the extraordinary life...
Portrait Of A Genius, But . . .: The Life Of D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of literary biography, Richard Aldington's Portrait of a Genius, But... chronicles...
Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington-Lawrence Durrell Correspondence
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew literary friendships of the twentieth century crackle with as much intellectual vitality as the one chronicled in Literary Lifelines, a remarkable...
Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A: An Intimate Biography Of The Great Star By Her Husband
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Author: Richard Stoddard AldrichBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Book Club in association with The Companion Book Club, London, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis...
Portrait Of A Genius, But . . .: The Life Of D. H. Lawrence, 1885 To 1930
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew literary lives burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of D. H. Lawrence, and Richard Aldington's...
The Life Of Laurence Olivier: Sir Larry
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Author: Thomas KiernanBinding: HardbackPublished: Times Books, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most iconic actors, Laurence...
Richard Temple
This is the story of Richard Temple - prisoner of war, sometime adventurer, lover and artist - told with insight, empathy and drama by one of the world's master storytellers....
A Reader's Guide To D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Philip HobsbaumBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis insightful literary guide, A Reader's Guide To D. H. Lawrence, presents a comprehensive analysis of the...