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29 produkter
Strange Eventful History
The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families
Häftad, 2009
209 kr
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Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king and queen of the Victorian stage. Creatively interdependent, they founded a power-house of arts at the Lyceum Theatre, with …
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families
Häftad, 2010
474 kr
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Works On Paper
The Craft of Biography and Autobiography
Häftad, 2003
316 kr
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Michael Holroyd opens with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then examines the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of …
Basil Street Blues
A Memoir
Häftad, 2001
345 kr
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Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past—guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their lives—gradually …
Mosaic
A Family Memoir Revisited
Häftad, 2011
312 kr
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After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As letters from …
Hugh Kingsmill
Häftad, 2009
267 kr
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Hugh Kingsmill should be better known. Here is a striking passage from Richard Ingrams' God's Apology. 'In Malcolm's (Muggeridge) study there was a row of books more thumbed and battered than the rest and a rather blurred photograph showing a man striding through a park, his arm swung forward, his …
On Wheels
Inbunden, 2012
129 kr
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Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography.Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael: the lessons required military precision when practising how …
Book of Secrets
Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light; Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord …
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
E-bok, 2010
108 kr
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As read on BBC Radio 4Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for A Strange Eventful History and winner of the Lifetime Services to Biography Award.Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family's history …
Good Bohemian
The Letters of Ida John
Av Michael Holroyd, Rebecca John
Häftad, 2018
176 kr
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'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday TimesTwelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private ceremony at St Pancras Registry Office. The union …
Good Bohemian
The Letters of Ida John
Av Michael Holroyd, Rebecca John
E-bok, 2017
195 kr
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Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John''s first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century. Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus …
Facts and Fiction
A Book of Storytelling
E-bok, 2018
126 kr
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A captivating collection of pieces about the art of narration by Britain''s finest biographer, Michael Holroyd In this collection of pieces, Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the art of writing about others. With characteristic playfulness and guilefulness, he considers the ways in …
Facts and Fiction
A Book of Storytelling
Häftad, 2019
128 kr
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'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you’re ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at leisure' Daily TelegraphIn Facts and Fiction, Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the art …
On Wheels
E-bok, 2012
170 kr
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Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography.Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael: the lessons required military precision when practising how …
Lytton Strachey
The New Biography
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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When Michael Holroyd''s life of Strachey first appeared in the late 1960s, it was hailed as a landmark in contemporary biography. Drawing on new material, published and unpublished, Holroyd completely revised and rewrote his masterwork in 1995 to tell the full story of this complex man and his …
Augustus John
The New Biography
E-bok, 2015
130 kr
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This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd''s two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the complete story of John and his circle, from one of our great biographers. John studied at the Slade with …
Bernard Shaw
The New Biography
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Bernard Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. This is Michael Holroyd''s essential biography of George Bernard Shaw. With its pace and verve, its comedy, drama and …
Basil Street Blues: A Family Story
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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Michael Holroyd – the most famous biographer in Britain – turns his attention upon himself and his own family in Basil Street Blues (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was conceived in the 1930s). Born into a family rich in eccentricity, Holroyd was largely brought up by …
Mosaic
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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''This is a book about surprises – at any rate, it has surprised me.'' In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal – his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just …
Book Of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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A BOOK OF SECRETS is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light; Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord …
Lytton Strachey By Himself
A Self-Portrait
Av Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd
E-bok, 2015
114 kr
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While working on his two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd had access to the Strachey archives. From the same source he collected all Strachey''s diaries and memoirs, which together in this volume form an intermittent but not disconnected autobiography. From childhood diaries to …
Lytton Strachey
The New Biography
Häftad, 2011
279 kr
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Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. In the 1960s he was seen as a progenitor of the hippy cult. Now he appears as a far more subversive and challenging figure. He revolutionised …
Augustus John
The New Biography
Häftad, 2011
334 kr
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This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the complete story of John and his circle, from one of our great biographers. John studied at the Slade with …
Dog's Life
Häftad, 2015
119 kr
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Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs. It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he …
Bernard Shaw
The One-Volume Definitive Edition
Häftad, 2005
208 kr
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In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.
Lytton Strachey
The New Biography
Häftad, 2005
208 kr
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"It is impossible to suppose that this ‘Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."—John Rothenstein, New York Times "Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human …
