Richard Holmes

Sidetracks

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Produktbeschreibung

New editions of Holmes's 2 collections of biography, which examine famous lives with an autobiographical style. Reissued to tie in with the his new book "Falling Upwards", also published this month in hardback and paperback.

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In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780007204540
• ISBN-10: 000720454X
• Artikelnr.: 21836989

Autorenporträt

Richard Holmes is Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia, and editor of the Harper Perennial series Classic Biographies launched in 2004. His is a Fellow of the British Academy, has honorary doctorates from UEA and the Tavistock Institute, and was awarded an OBE in 1992. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. He has published two studies of European biography, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer in 1985, and Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer in 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

I. A Romantic Premontion
Introduction
Thomas Chatteron
II. Lost in France
Introduction
Monsieur Nadar
Gautier in London
Poor Pierrot
Inside the Tower
III. Five Gothic Shadows
Introduction
The Singular Affair of the Reverend Mr Barham
The Reverend Maturin and Mr Melmoth
M. R. James and Others
John Stuart Mill
Lord Lisle and the Tudor Nixon Tapes
IV. A Philosophical Love Story
Introduction
The Feminist and the Philosopher: A Love Story
V. Shelley’s Ghost
Introduction
Scrope’s Last Throw
To the Tempest Given
VI. Escapes to Paris
Introduction
Scott and Zelda: One Last Trip
A Summer with the Novelist
Letters from Paris
Voltaire’s Grin
VII. Homage to the Godfather
Introduction
Boswell’s Bicentenary
Boswell Among the Tulips
Dr. Johnson’s First Cat