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The life and music of Maurice Ravel, a fascinating mind in a turbulent age.

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Before he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud's poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity and exploration.

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Carl Jung is a clear and compelling critical assessment of one of the controversial and highly influential pioneers of psychology.

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In this new interpretation of the life and work of the American poet, short story writer and novelist Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne examines Bukowski's writings, colourful life and the desperate conditions of his lifestyle, looking at the literary traditions that influenced him and discussing his unique place in world literature.

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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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The ambiguous, provocative Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

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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 this gripping biography Paul Ibell discusses Williams as a poet as well as a playwright, at the same time revealing the crises of doomed relationships, promiscuous sex, alcohol and prescription drug abuse that gave the writer the raw material for his plays, but which ultimately destroyed him.

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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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Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-centuryScottish thinker Adam Smith is best known for developing the concept ofthe 'invisible hand'. The 'hand' helped to explain how the removal of stateregulation could set individuals free to specialize and pursue their owninterests for the good of all.

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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.