A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson, Nicholas Hudson

Автор: Johnson, Samuel
Название: The Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 0199226741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199226740
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Описание: The Lives of the Poets is one of the greatest works of English criticism, but also one of the most diverting. This is the only one-volume paperback edition to make available Johnson`s most substantial Lives in unabridged form. Texts are drawn from Roger Lonsdale`s authoritative complete edition, and introduced by John Mullan.

Автор: Zweig Stefan
Название: The World of Yesterday
ISBN: 0803226616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803226616
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By the author who inspired Wes Anderson s film, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, "The World of Yesterday" recalls the golden age of literary Vienna its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.

Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, touching on the very heart of European culture. His passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the edge of extinction.

This new translation by award-winning Anthea Bell captures the spirit of Zweig s writing in arguably his most revealing work."

Автор: De Feydeau Elisabeth
Название: A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette`s Perfumer
ISBN: 1788311086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788311083
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Описание: Montpellier, 1748: Jean-Louis Fargeon is born into a family of perfumers and soon becomes apprenticed to his father's modest perfumerie. But he dreams of the glittering court of Versailles and of becoming perfumer to the young queen, Marie Antoinette. His ambition carried him to Paris where his boutique became one of the most elegant and well-patronised in France. Concocting sumptuous perfumes and pomades for most of the French nobility, Fargeon eventually caught the attention of the queen. After meeting Marie Antoinette in the Trianon Palace, he began creating lavish bespoke scents that perfectly reflected her moods and personality. He served as her personal and exclusive perfumer for fourteen years until 1789 when the darkness of Revolution swept across France, its wrath aimed at the extravagance of a now hated queen. Fargeon, a lifelong supporter of the Republican cause but a purveyor to the court, was in a dangerous position. Yet he remained fiercely loyal to Marie Antoinette, beyond her desperate flight to Varennes, her execution and even through his own imprisonment and trial...

Автор: Levi Stevens, Matthew
Название: Magical universe of william s burroughs
ISBN: 1906958645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781906958640
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Описание: "In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think thats just ridiculous. Its as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street its for a reason. Among primitive people they say that if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that." -- William S Burroughs Fully revised and expanded from the limited edition chapbook that first appeared in 2012, this is the first ever in-depth consideration of the significance of Magic and the Occult in the Life & Work of the writer and counter-cultural icon.

Автор: Martin Gitlin
Название: Diana, Princess of Wales A Biography
ISBN: 0313348790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780313348792
Издательство: Greenwood
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Описание: Long before her tragic death, Diana, Princess of Wales was a beloved modern icon, relatable to the general public in a way that transcended the barrier between royal and commoner. This volume explores her life, including her aristocratic upbringing, her whirlwind engagement to Prince Charles, their rocky marriage, and her role as mother.

Автор: Robert E. Meagher
Название: Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
ISBN: 1643138219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643138213
Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK
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Описание: A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus`s life and influence for those readers who, in Camus`s words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship."

Автор: Hudson Nicholas
Название: A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson
ISBN: 1138661406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138661400
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Описание: Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.

Автор: Hawkins John
Название: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
ISBN: 0820344273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820344270
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Описание: <p>This is the first and only scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s <em>Life of Samuel Johnson</em>, LL.D., a work that has not been widely available in complete form for more than two hundred years. Published in 1787, some four years before James Boswell's biography of Johnson, Hawkins's Life complements, clarifies, and often corrects numerous aspects of Boswell's Life. </p> <p>Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. Hawkins was Johnson's friend and legal adviser and the chief executor of his will. He knew Johnson longer and in many respects better than other biographers, including Boswell, who made unacknowledged use of Hawkins's Life and helped orchestrate the critical attacks that consigned the book to obscurity. </p> <p>Sir John Hawkins had special insight into Johnson's mental states at various points in his life, his early days in London, his association with the <em>Gentleman's Magazine</em>, and his political views and writings. Hawkins's use of historical and cultural details, an uncommon literary device at the time, produced one of the earliest ""life and times"" biographies in our language. The Introduction by O M Brack, Jr., covers the history of the composition, publication, and reception of the Life and provides a context in which it should be read. Annotations address historical, literary, and linguistic uncertainties, and a full textual apparatus documents how Brack arrived at this definitive text of Hawkins's Life. </p>

Автор: Kindred Sheila Johnson
Название: Jane Austen`s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
ISBN: 0773557083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773557086
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Описание: In 1807 genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789–1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between Bermuda, Nova Scotia, and England. For just over a year, her home was in the city of Halifax. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister Fanny's articulate and informative letters – transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context – disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how she was an inspiration for Austen's literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny's story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women's roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny's life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction, as well as for those interested in biography, women's letters, and history of the family.

Автор: Johnson, Christopher D
Название: A Political Biography of Sarah Fielding
ISBN: 0367875934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367875930
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Описание: Tracing the development of Fielding`s agendas, Johnson presents a compelling portrait of an author who claimed a place within literary culture for women`s experiences. While Fielding often retreats from the overtly political concerns that captured the attention of her contemporaries, her works are daring forays into the public sphere that both c

Автор: Malachi McIntosh
Название: Beyond Calypso: Re-Reading Samuel Selvon
ISBN: 9766378614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766378615
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Описание: Beyond Calypso presents wide-ranging analyses that consider the full body of Selvon`s writing.

Автор: Jones Joseph
Название: The Cradle of Erewhon
ISBN: 0292741219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292741218
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Описание: An examination and interpretation of the ways in which Samuel Butler`s few crucial years in New Zealand affected his life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited.