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Presents a self-portrait, a medical portrait of a community, and one observant man's response to a time of flux in the early 1960s.
In the spring of 1804 Coleridge sailed to the Mediterranean in the hope of restoring his health, recreating his poetic energies and solving his emotional problems. During the voyage he kept a very detailed diary. This title combines the pleasures of researched biography, and criticism and social history, with the narrative sweep of a novel.
Julia O'Faolain's subtle, seductively plotted novel weaves together Ireland and Italy, romantic love and mystery...
The Heart of the Writer, companion volume to The Maker of the Omnibus (also reissued in Faber Finds) is a book of fascinating and revealing information about English writers.
'No pecuniary embarrassments equal to the embarrassments of a professed wit; the disappointment of his creditors - the importunity of duns - the tricks, forgeries and false coin he is forced to pay instead of gold. Pity a wit . Gilbert, Beerbohm Tree, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Hilaire Belloc, Max Beerbohm and G.
'I am engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets.' So wrote Samuel Johnson to James Boswell.
'I am engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets.' So wrote Samuel Johnson to James Boswell.
'I am engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets.' So wrote Samuel Johnson to James Boswell.
Nick Rankin, in his introduction, describes Caesar in Abyssinia as Steer's 'remarkable - and partisan - account of the last great episode of armed colonial conquest in Africa, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36.' Italy had first tried to meld an Africa Orientale Italina in 1895.
A comparative study of the lives of English writers, spanning styles and centuries. It takes a selection of writers and explored their lives and characters: how far do work-methods differ; what is inspiration; to what extent do background and education play a part; and, is creativity driven by suffering.
Intends to identify the structural flaws in modern liberal society and to suggest energetic ways in which it might be reformed.
Hugh Kingsmill wrote over thirty books, and his highly praised biography of Frank Harris is one of four of his books to be reissued by Faber Finds, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of his death. 'An extremely fine piece of work ...
Zionism is one of the most misunderstood and controversial of all political doctrines. This work illuminates its origins and discusses its political theory through an examination of the ideas of Zionism's leading thinkers. It lays bare the paradoxes and the genuine achievements of a unique movement that has changed the course of Jewish history.
It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Ultra intelligence (the information derived from decrypting the radio traffic of the German armed force). By the beginning of October, Ultra showed that Hitler was the unwitting accomplice of Allied policy, pouring his diminishing resources into Italy when they might have been put to better use.
He ends up on his own, beginning to see Cambridge has more to offer than a three years' muckabout in a festering fen.'Very clever indeed . . . This portrait of la vie de boheme universitaire should raise squeals of outraged delight .
Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War.
Tells the story of Harriet Ashworth as a child, an adolescent and a young woman, and of her mother, vain, silly, snobbish and egocentric, yet not entirely unsympathetic - whether she is aping a London hostess, a Lady of the Manor or the smart set on the Riviera, or flying desperately to 'The Wilderness' in search of safety from the bombs.
Hugh Kingsmill was a novelist, a biographer of note and a talker of outstanding verve and brilliance. He died in 1949. This book presents his biography.
Four Last Things is a collection of short stories, a brilliant collection of short stories.
It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. This biography discusses the poet's relationship with his wife.
Covering the northern lagoon islands of Torcello, Burano, Santa Christina and San Francesco del Deserto, this book considers how the island communities there would react to the technological upheavals of the twentieth century.
Bored with the London summer, this enigmatic man fills his yacht with assorted socialites, chief among them the beautiful, restless Gloria Swing, and heads for the torrid coast of Africa, where fate, they discover can certainly prove worse than death.
First published in 1955, Katherine Briggs' story about the hobgoblin whose charge it is to protect and influence the unloving Puritan family who come to live at Widford Manor after the Civil War is a classic of English children's writing.
Malcolm Warren, a young but valetudinarian stockbroker, is looking forward to a dull weekend when a telegram summons him to stay with his capricious old Aunt Catherine, who has shocked the family by marrying Hannibal Cartwright, a muscular garage owner many years her junior.
In a land troubled by witches and feuding clans, step-sisters Kate and Katherine form an unlikely friendship over a shared love of fairies.
After a disastrous and dangerous encounter with a French frigate Michael Fitton, master's mate, finds himself in charge of the Courier's few survivors. Mr Fitton in Command was first published in 1995 and is one of a series of fictional novels about Michael Fitton, real-life sailor and hero.
Part autobiography, part meditation on the dilemmas of Europe, this title offers an exploration of the uncertainties that affected Europeans for nearly half a century.
"Dido and Aeneas" has been one of the most compelling of the great classical myths. The material the story offers has led artists and authors throughout the centuries to appropriate - and misappropriate - the story for artistic and political ends. This book examines the myth itself and the way in which it has been re-interpreted by later authors.
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