Richard Holmes

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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: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780007204540
• ISBN-10: 000720454X
• Artikelnr.: 21836989

Autorenporträt

Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as 'surely the best biography of Shelley ever written'. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

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