Dickens & Women ReObserved is a rich collection of new essays by scholars and critics from various parts of the world who represent a new appreciation of Charles Dickens and things woman. This is an important work for comprehending one of the world's greatest novelists and facilitating greater study of contemporary views of Victorian women.
In 1914, H. Rider Haggardadventure novelist, diplomat, farmer, lawyer, and, above all, renowned author of such classic and influential bestsellers as King Solomon's Mines and Shereturned to South Africa, the country that had fired his literary imagination, for the first time in a quarter century. Haggard, whose work is today considered a prototype ......
Awards and Recognition:Honorable Mention in the Biography category for the 2013 Georgia Author of the Year AwardsThe powerful interconnections of poet Denise Levertov's life and workKenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (19231997) ""the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, . . . and the most moving."" Author of ......
Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923-1997) ''the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, ...and the most moving.'' Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet. Born in England, she published her first book of poems at age ......
The third of memoirs by the novelist, dramatist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Frederic Raphael. This volume contains various observations about his life as a screenwriter in 1970s Hollywood.
In 1903, after a fire completely destroyed her family home in Norfolk, UK, the 27- year-old Constance helped her mother redesign their house and recreate the garden. It was an experience from which she never looked back, going on to become an internationally recognised garden expert and connoisseur. A rich woman herself, she was attracted to ......
This delightful illustrated autobiography is the story of Miles Franklin's first ten years, spent partly on her parent's station in the mountain valley of Brindabella, not far from the present-day Canberra. It is a world of the high places and graceful living which she portrayed in her novels, here recaptured with unfaltering warmth and ......
This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles-biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history-to characterize Chekhov's key episto...
