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16 produkter
Volume the First
Inbunden, 2000
1796 kr
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Jane Austen collected her childhood writings into three manuscript notebooks, both as a record of her earliest work and for the convenience of reading aloud to her family and friends. Volume the First (as she entitled it) contains fourteen pieces - literary skits and family jokes - dating from …
Two Quiet Lives
Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2009
300 kr
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The two quiet lives are Dorothy Osborne, writer of the famous love letters to William Temple, and Thomas Gray, poet, Cambridge don and friend of Horace Walpole. They lived a century apart, but as David Cecil shows, were temperamentally akin. Both were reserved, introspective and prone to …
Max: Sir Max Beerbohm
A Biography
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2009
364 kr
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Max Beerbohm is one of those figures, like Dr Johnson and Oscar Wilde, as well known as a personality as he is an artist. He was a superb parodist and cartoonist, and he was the leading wit and dandy of the Edwardian age. His very first book was boldly entitled The Works of Max Beerbohm (a …
Stricken Deer
Or the Life of William Cowper
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2009
267 kr
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First published in 1929, The Stricken Deer was the winner of that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize and also the Hawthornden Prize: it was David Cecil's first book.For a time, towards the end of the eighteenth-century, William Cowper was the foremost poet in England. But David Cecil's …
Visionary and Dreamer
Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2023
427 kr
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An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic paintersIn Visionary and Dreamer, David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature. Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), …
Visionary and Dreamer
Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones
Av David Cecil
E-bok, 2023
656 kr
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An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic painters In Visionary and Dreamer , David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature. Samuel Palmer …
Jane Austen
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2013
223 kr
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Originally published in 1935, this volume contains the text of the Leslie Stephen Lecture for that year, delivered by Lord David Cecil at the University of Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Jane Austen's life, career and characters.
Young Melbourne
Av David Cecil
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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A biography of William Lamb, later to become Lord Melbourne, a man who would become prime minister of Great Britain at the height of the British empire and guide the young queen Victoria through the new world of government which she had entered upon her ascension to the throne. Many of the earliest …
Young Melbourne & Lord M
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2017
225 kr
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Modern Library’s 100th best non-fiction book of all time, and John F. Kennedy’s favourite book.A masterful biography of the life of Lord Melbourne – Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister and devoted mentor, and one of England’s most controversial statesmen – whose turbulent marriage to Lady Caroline Lamb …
Young Melbourne & Lord M
Av David Cecil
E-bok, 2017
64 kr
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Modern Library’s 100th best non-fiction book of all time, and John F. Kennedy’s favourite book. A masterful biography of the life of Lord Melbourne – Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister and devoted mentor, and one of England’s most controversial statesmen – whose turbulent marriage to Lady Caroline …
