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An exploration of an essential but often overlooked figure in English literature In this innovative biography, Andrew Keanie explores one of the mo...

W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story ...

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

In this major reassessment, now available in paperback, Richard Gray uses and develops recent theories about the relationship between writing and h...

The first major Hawthorne biography to be published in two decades, featuring original scholarship on both unpublished and published sources The Li...

Discover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh...

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR An expansive biography of John Milton, including an assessment of his poetry and prose and an account of the ways in which h...

A fresh approach to building the life of Jane Austen through her letters, demonstrating that a well-known life can be reframed by being grounded in...

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR MAYA ANGELOU DISCOVER THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MAYA ANGELOU WITH A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER CHALLENGES AND ...

Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, fe...

An accessible and reliable introduction to the life and works of Charles Dickens, offering a unique combination of academic biography and literary ...

Rosemary Ashton explores the many facets of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's complex personality, by turns poet, critic, thinker, enchanting companion, fe...

The Life of O'Reilly is a chronicle of the career of one of the European PGA Tour's most famous caddies-John O'Reilly-and it's full of funny storie...

Robert Browning is customarily regarded as a dramatic poet whose works are separate and distinct from himself. This biography proposes a different ...

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milt...

Presents a fresh account of the life history and creative imagination of Jonathan Swift Classic satires such as Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Propos...

In this major revision of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Robert DeMaria makes a compelling claim for the attention of a new generation of Johnson's ...

The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost's ancestors,...

Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milt...

This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the f...

Goethe established a major European reputation and profoundly influenced his contemporaries and literary successors, not least among them the Briti...

Discover anew the life and influence of Henry James, part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies series. In The Life of Henry James:...

He has written a masterful biography, rich in enlivened critical detail, which more than any other study of Waugh to date, works to redress the bia...

Each chapter in this intriguing book by one of the world's leading authorities on Henry Fielding begins with an annotated chronology of the known f...