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. 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.
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.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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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