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Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
65.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanish ...Show more
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee; Kate Kennedy
44.99 AUD
Category: Interior Design
A group of notable writers — including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow — celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? D ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014. Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, ...Show more
Stevie Smith: a Selection by Stevie Smith; Hermione Lee (Editor)
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him. One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversa ...Show more
Tom Stoppard - A Life by Hermione Lee
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights--with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material. Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness an ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
42.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause and nature of her madness and suicide, the truth ab ...Show more
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