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Shayndl and Salomea
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history. From stories both told and untold,...
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Mellan provins och parnass
John Fernström (1897--1961) var verksam som violinist, dirigent och tonsättare. Idag är han bäst ihågkommen för sitt initiativ att 1951 starta...
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Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly...
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Nikolaj Gogol
Detta kan egentligen inte kallas en biografi, även om Nabokov i och för sig skildrar Gogols liv i stora drag. Snarare är det en personlig essä,...
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The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they...
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The Wounded Jung
By exploring Carl Jung's transformative life experience and its effect on his thoughts and writings, The Wounded Jung shows how Jung's...
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Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed...
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Otto Neurath
An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle,...
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Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet
A. David Moody’s Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet was published to acclaim in 1979, with a successful paperback following in 1980. This carefully revised...
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Reimagining Thoreau
Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of...
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Archbishop Theodore
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668–90), was a monk of Greek origin and extraordinary learning, who shaped the English Church into a structure...
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Anna Akhmatova and her circle
This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace,...
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Anna Akhmatova and her circle
This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace,...
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The Sword of Truth
At the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century a revolutionary movement arose in Hausaland (now part of northern Nigeria) that was to have a...
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Fritz Reiner - A Biography
Thirty years after his death, Fritz Reiner's contribution--as a conductor, as a teacher (of Leonard Bernstein, among others), and as a...
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New Light on Boswell
Boswell’s Life of Johnson is established as one of the foremost literary biographies in the English language. This collection of new essays,...
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Martial: The Unexpected Classic
This is the first full-length study in English of the Roman poet Martial’s life, poetry and politics, as well as of the survival of his fifteen...
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The World of Bede
An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published...
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The American T. S. Eliot
In his old age T. S. Eliot said on a number of occasions that the American experience of his childhood and youth had had the deepest influence on his...
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The World of Bede
An engaging and accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of the Venerable Bede (d.735), this book (originally published...
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Plutarch: Life of Antony
Plutarch’s Life of Antony is a work remarkable for its colourful narrative and vivid characterisation of Antony and Cleopatra. This book presents...
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The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great
In his role of apostle of the English and promoter of Augustine’s mission, Gregory the Great became the subject of what is one of the earliest...
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