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Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. This biography indicates that Dante may have smoked cannabis to reach new heights of creativity. It tells that Dante was a talented public speaker, who created a quite new form of poetic art, holding audiences spellbound.

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Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.

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The definitive biography of one of America's most celebrated playwrights whose Pulitzer Prize -winning play, Glengarry Glen Ross, was revived in the West End in 2007. This landmark study provides a comprehensive account of his life, work and ideas on writing, acting and directing.

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A classic reissue of Richard Holmess brilliant book on Samuel Johnsons friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.

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The definitive biography of John Berryman, one of the twentieth century's foremost poets

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This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street.

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While other biographies provide extensive information about Fitzgerald's life and achievements, this volume meets the need of high school students for a concise, accessible, and informative discussion of Fitzgerald and his works.

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The most important document that has come to light regarding Orwell's Spanish experiences is the deposition charging him and Eileen with espionage and high treason, a charge unknown to them. This volume also includes a sequence of letters that throws a completely new light on Orwell's personal relationships.

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To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick and Reynolds, being chased round the gardens of Kew Palace by the King. it paints a vivid portrait of a woman of great talent, against the changing background of England and France, a culture and an age.

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Presents an anecdotal account of the author's meetings with the great and shambolic men and women of poetry. Since his late teens, he has been rubbing shoulders and working with a host of acclaimed poets. He weaves his impressions of them personally, with a commentary on their place within the broader literary culture.

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The first major biography of one of the greatest writers of the South, whose books will 'live on and on in American literature' (Elizabeth Bishop).

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No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than Friedrich Nietzsche. The wealth and diversity of Nietzsche's aphorisms and brief essays - close to 2,700 - make him the most seminal and provocative thinker of modern times.

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Gives the reader an insight into a key moment in the life of modern Europe. This title also provides an insight into the creative process as the reader witnesses ideas for novels occurring and then taking shape. It presents both a personal journal by a creative artist and a commentary on European history.

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Master of 'magic realism,' distinguished journalist and film critic, friend of world leaders ranging from Fidel Castro to President Bill Clinton, Gabriel Garcia Marquez improbably emerged from obscure beginnings to become an author beloved of readers worldwide than any other living writer. This title delves into the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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This biography of Genet explores the perverse extremes of his life and writing, and separates the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself. Edmund White has interviewed lovers, friends, publishers and acquaintances, and has drawn from material, from letters (a number published here for the first time) and other original sources.

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The poet George Crabbe (1754 - 1832), best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, a clergyman, a botanist, and a novelist.

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George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and one of Britain's great novelists. This biography offers insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to her life and writing. It offers an illuminating portrait of her as a woman and a writer.

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'George Sand' (Aurore Dupin, 1804-1876) was France's bestselling writer, rivalled in her time only by Victor Hugo. Convent-educated, she became a mischievous, flamboyant rebel: her long, troubled romance with Chopin was just one of many affairs with well-known figures, but her most desperate love was for a beautiful actress.