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Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$79.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
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
Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 vanished a ...Show more
Paris Notebooks - Essays and Reviews by Mavis Gallant; Hermione Lee (Introduction by)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Nonpareil Bks.
"Riveting . . . rollicking . . . elegantly captures a changing France reckoning with the cultural revolutions of the mid-20th century."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Enthralling essays on the expatriate experience in Paris and shrewd literary criticism by one of the twentieth century's finest wri ...Show more
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
$27.99 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
Penelope Fitzgerald - A Life by Hermione Lee
$52.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaim ...Show more
Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee
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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: New Hardbacks
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
$37.95 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
Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up by Hermione Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Willa Cather (1873-1947), who spent years working as a journalist, teacher and editor of a New York magazine whose deepest feelings were directed towards women. Her friendships from Sarah Orne Jewett and Dorothy Canfield to Stephen Tennant and Yehudi Menuhin were important to her yet as s ...Show more
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