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A holistic approach to the monumental modernist writer Christopher Isherwood.

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A concise yet comprehensive account of D. H. Lawrence's stormy life and writing career.

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A vivid, absorbing new biography of Dmitry Shostakovich.

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Frida Kahlo is a legendary figure in modern art: images of and by Kahlo,both photographs and self-portraits, are recognized world-wide. This bookexplores the life and art of Frida Kahlo, cutting through 'Fridamania' tolook closely at the myths, contradictions and ambiguities that riddle herstory.

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An insightful and compelling biography of celebrated French storyteller Guy de Maupassant.

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A new biogrpahy of one of the 20th-century's most influential political thinkers, Hannah Arendt.

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A critical biography of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Lars T. Lih gives a non-partisan,vivid portrait and a striking new interpretation of a key revolutionary thinker and founder of the Soviet Union, Lenin, and shows that underneath the sharp polemics, Lenin was more a romantic enthusiast than a sour pragmatist.

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An insightful biography of Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest novelists of all time.

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A new critical biography of Leon Trotsky, a strong leader of Soviets and one of the most important figures of twentieth-century Communism. This biography delves deep into Trotsky's life and relationships to reveal and understand his complex character and actions.

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An illuminating reappraisal of Belgian surrealist artist Ren Magritte.

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A new account of the short yet extraordinary life of Rosa Luxemburg.

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A concise yet comprehensive survey of one of classical musics most popular composers.

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In his radically new analysis of an extraordinary life, Damian Flanagan moves away from the stereotypical depiction of Mishima as a right-wing nationalist and aesthete and presents him as a man utterly obsessed with time - time-keeping devices and symbols - arguing that this compulsion was at the heart of the author's literature and life.

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This book both evaluates Kurosawa's films and offers a view of the man behind the camera, covering his family life and his legendary place on the global film-making stage.

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One of France's most high-profile writers and a Nobel Prize-winner, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection during his career, which was cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. Edward J. Hughes unravels the life of a complex personality whose work and stance were the subjects of intense interest and scrutiny.

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Arthur Schopenhauer devoted his adult life to the articulation of a philosophy for the world, a philosophy that would benefit mankind by providing a solution to the riddle of existence. This biography provides an introduction to the life and work of the nineteenth-century German philosopher.

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The action-packed life of the polymath and First American, Benjamin Franklin.

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A fresh, up-to-date account of the life and work of Charles Darwin.

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Simon gives us a new biography of the iconic, iconoclastic fashion designer Coco Chanel. Drawing upon rich archival sources, Coco Chanel provides a lively, clear-eyed account of the life and work of a woman whose influence transcends the world of fashion.

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Acknowledged as one of the major sculptors and avant-garde artists of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) also remained one of the most elusive. This book looks beyond the mythology of the artist to show us Constantin the Romanian student, as well as Brancusi the celebrated artist.

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Marta Braun's new biography of Eadweard Muybridge traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman.

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A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. This book tells his story.

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In this new critical biography Frida Beckman traces Gilles Deleuze's remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged.