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London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city" (Fiona Hamilton The Times) I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.” Shakespeare - The Biography: Vol I: Aspiring Spirit: Aspiring Spirit: From Stratford to London - (Birth, 1564 - C. 1590) v. 1 This compact but detailed biography illuminates the literary career of Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), whose “sensation stories” made him one of the Victorian era’s most popular authors. Collins, the son Continue reading »
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among many others), in this addition to his Brief Lives series, doesn’t provide new insights into one of the greatest Continue reading » Medical student Victor Frankenstein imbibes fellow student “Bysshe” Shelley's belief in “the perfectability of mankind” and strives “to create a being of Continue reading » Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-01-12 22:01:22 Boxid IA40031923 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Lovely copy of this title. Book has slight creasing to ffep otherwise is mint with no marks or inscriptions. Seems unread. The ``manifestly clever, darkly humorous'' novel limns an impoverished poet in modern-day London, who discovers that another poet, Chatterton, faked his own death in 1770, and continued to write Continue reading »
Editions of Blake's poetry—which as an artist and printer he frequently engraved and published himself—most often fail to reproduce his integral illustrations, or do so in poor Continue reading » adds to his one-man Brief Lives series this exploration of the short—and predominantly miserable—life of Edgar Continue reading »
London: The Biography - Ackroyd, Peter: 9780099422587 - AbeBooks London: The Biography - Ackroyd, Peter: 9780099422587 - AbeBooks
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