The fiendish young man, having driven poor Verlaine out of his wits and his marriage, abandoned poetry, then Europe, setting in Aden in 1880. A reprint from Eland.
Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91
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Edition:Paperback978178060169422/04/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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The title is part of her 1947 New Year's Eve toast. Openly gay, Highsmith was famously beastly to lovers and friends. This new biography traces connections between her complex character and ... read more
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The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings' earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham,... read more
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life
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Uncovers the illicit affair between the novelist and the author's grandfather, Humphry House, which Parry discovered on being delivered a box of letters.
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen
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A welcome addition to DPJ's superb first volume of family memoir, 'Fault Lines' , which was a rare window on C20th Europe.
Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime
Hardback £20.99