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Hugh Aldersey-Williams In search of Sir Thomas Browne
the life and afterlife of the seventeenth century's most inquiring mind
"The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the greatest--and most neglected--minds in history. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off not just to tell the story of Browne's life but to champion his skeptical nature and inquiring...
Engels | 330 pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London | 2015
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Sarah Weinman The real Lolita
the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
True crime-verslag over de ontvoeringszaak van de Amerikaanse 11-jarige Sally Horner in 1948 en een poging om aan te tonen dat Nabokov uit deze zaak veel inspiratie haalde voor zijn roman Lolita.
Non-fictie
Engels | 306 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2018
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Susan Brigden Thomas Wyatt
the heart's forest
Engels | 714 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2012
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Robert Fraser Night thoughts
the surreal life of the poet David Gascoyne
Engels | 469 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] | 2012
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Matthew Hollis Now all roads lead to France
the last years of Edward Thomas
Engels | 389 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2012
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Pat Walsh A rebel act
Michael Hartnett's farewell to English
Engels | 256 pagina's | Mercier Press, Cork | 2012
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Lisa Jarnot Robert Duncan
the ambassador from Venus; a biography
Engels | 526 pagina's | University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. [etc.] | 2012
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Shiva Rahbaran Iranian writers uncensored
freedom, democracy and the word in contemporary Iran
Engels | 303 pagina's | Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign [etc.] | 2012
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Neil Roberts A lucid dreamer
the life of Peter Redgrove
Engels | 341 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2012
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George Williamson A reader's guide to the metaphysical poets
John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell
Engels | 274 pagina's | Thames and Hudson, London | 1968
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Chaucer
modern essays in criticism
Engels | 413 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York | 1959
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Zachary Leader The life of Saul Bellow
to fame and fortune, 1915-1964
Biografie van de Joods-Amerikaanse schrijver (1915-2005).
Engels | 812 pagina's | Alfred A. Knopf, New York | 2015
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Jonathan Bate Ted Hughes
the unauthorised life
Ongeautoriseerde biografie van de Britse dichter (1930-1998).
Engels | 662 pagina's | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York | 2015
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Jerome Loving Mark Twain
the adventures of Samuel L. Clemens
Engels | 491 pagina's | University of California Press, Berkeley, CA [etc.] | 2010
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William G. Thalmann Apollonius of Rhodes and the spaces of Hellenism
Engels | 262 pagina's | Oxford University Press, New York, NY [etc.] | 2011
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Adam Kirsch Why Trilling matters
Engels | 185 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven, CT [etc.] | 2011
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Andre Dubus (III) Townie
a memoir
Engels | 387 pagina's | Norton, New York, London | 2011
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Katie Gramich Kate Roberts
Engels | 126 pagina's | University of Wales Press, Cardiff | 2011
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Margot Peters Lorine Niedecker
a poet's life
Engels | 326 pagina's | The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis. | 2011
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Nicola Shulman Graven with diamonds
the many lives of Thomas Wyatt: courtier, poet, assassin, spy
Engels | 378 pagina's | Short Books, London | 2011
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