Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced....Loe edasi...
Sari: Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia - CEU Press
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2025, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003718208)
This book is a detailed biography of the writer and journal editor who probably changed the literary culture of the Soviet Union more than any other person in the two decades after Stalins death....Loe edasi...
Barbara Bray was an English translator from French to English. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious minds of the 20th century: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli and Marguerite Duras. This literary biog...Loe edasi...
The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn, David Latanés meticulously researched biography follows Maginns life from his early days in Ireland through his career in Paris and London as political journalist, editor and writer and fi...Loe edasi...
First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally recognized as a hero of culture, and in the light of modern sociological thought puts the hero into his background, human, social and po...Loe edasi...
Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrads autobiographical remembering and storytelling in relation to his identity construction...Loe edasi...
First published in 1972, Sheridan is primarily a rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his triumphs and failures, his ferocious duels and sudden romances, and his rise to oratorical fame in the arena of politics....Loe edasi...
First published in 1974, Masks and Facades paints an authentic picture of John Vanbrugh as a man of character, talent, wit and charm, moving in an age where patronage held the key to worldly advancement....Loe edasi...
In this critical study of the man and his work, first published in 1951 and revised in 1973, Dr Breretons guiding principle has been to make the factual basis as accurate as it can be in the light of modern research. The result is the portrait of a...Loe edasi...
First Published in 1959, The Life of John Middleton Murry is the first biography of one of the most controversial figures in English letters....Loe edasi...
The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad....Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1984, is a detailed biography of Solzhenitsyn. It covers every period of his life, showing how Solzhenitsyns development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society. At the same time, this book relates Sol...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1977, analyses the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers. It examines their environment: the geography, ethnography, economics, and the impact of the competing forces of cohesion and disruption in imperial society...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevskys novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creators tormented experience and personality. It draws upon important fresh source material, and considers all Dostoyevskys works,...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russias modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Professor Hingley places their lives and work firmly in the setting of the USSRs social and political structure....Loe edasi...
This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life and work of a man who lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history to produce some of his countrys greatest...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhovs life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day. Using Chekhovs works, biographical details, and his l...Loe edasi...
This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian letters. Taken as a group they are a microcosm of Rus...Loe edasi...
