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Biography by Hermione Lee
$32.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions S.
Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal things ...Show more
Body Parts : Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in conn ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanish ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The definitive biography of one of America’ s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece "Virginia Woolf," Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton— tough, startlingly modern, as bri ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The name "Edith Wharton" conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanished a ...Show more
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$85.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanish ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life by Hermione Lee
$64.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaim ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014. Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, ...Show more
Stevie Smith: a Selection by Stevie Smith; Hermione Lee (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee
$33.00 NZD
$37.00 (10% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him. One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversa ...Show more
Tom Stoppard - A Life by Hermione Lee
$69.98 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights--with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material. Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness an ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth ab ...Show more