The Literary Life and Other Curiosities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Life and Other Curiosities write by Robert Hendrickson. This book was released on 1982. The Literary Life and Other Curiosities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Curiosities of Literature
Curiosities of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curiosities of Literature write by John Sutherland. This book was released on 2010-10-31. Curiosities of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How much heavier was Thackeray's brain than Walt Whitman's? Which novels do American soldiers read? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're about it, who wrote the first Western, is there any link between asthma and literary genius, and what really happened on Dorothea's wedding night in Middlemarch? In Curiosities of Literature, John Sutherland contemplates the full import of questions such as these, and attempts a few answers in a series of essays that are both witty and eclectic. His approach is also unashamedly discursive. An account of the fast-working Mickey Spillane, for example, leads to a consideration of the substances, both legal and illegal, that authors have employed to boost their creative energies. An essay on good and bad handwriting points out in passing that Thackeray could write the Lord's Prayer on the back of a stamp. As for Mary Shelley, a brief recital of the circumstances in which she wrote Frankenstein stops off to consider what impact the miserable summer weather of 1816 had on the future path of English literature. Of course, it is debatable whether knowledge of these arcane topics adds to the wisdom of nations, but it does highlight the random pleasures to be found in reading literature and reading about it. As John Sutherland rightly asks, 'Why else read?'
Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stephen Spender write by John Sutherland. This book was released on 2005-01-06. Stephen Spender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator--and close friend of some of the best-know creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating biography, John Sutherland paints a vivid portrait of Spender and of the glittering literary world of which he was a part, drawing on exclusive access to Spender's private papers. This briskly paced, compelling narrative illuminates the vast range of Spender's literary, political, and artistic interests. We follow Spender from childhood to his days at Oxford (where he first became friends with W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Isaiah Berlin); to his meteoric rise as poet in the 1930s, while still in his twenties; to his later years as cultural statesman, at home in both Britain and America. We witness many of the century's defining moments through Spender's eyes: the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Cold War, the 1960s sexual revolution, and the rise of America as a cultural force. And along the way, we are introduced to many of Spender's accomplished friends, including Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Cecil Day-Lewis, Joseph Brodsky, Lucian Freud, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot. Perhaps most important, Sutherland has been granted exclusive access to Spender's private papers by his wife Natasha Spender. Thus he is able to provide a far more intimate look at the poet's personal life than has appeared in previous biographies. Featuring 36 unpublished photographs, Stephen Spender: A Literary Life throws light not only on this supremely gifted writer, but also on the literary and social history of the twentieth century.
Curiosities of Literature
Curiosities of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curiosities of Literature write by Isaac Disraeli. This book was released on 1838. Curiosities of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Curiosities of Literature, and The Literary Character Illustrated ... With Curiosities of American Literature, by Rufus W. Griswold
Curiosities of Literature, and The Literary Character Illustrated ... With Curiosities of American Literature, by Rufus W. Griswold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Curiosities of Literature, and The Literary Character Illustrated ... With Curiosities of American Literature, by Rufus W. Griswold write by Isaac Disraeli. This book was released on 1847. Curiosities of Literature, and The Literary Character Illustrated ... With Curiosities of American Literature, by Rufus W. Griswold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
