A rich study of the gulf between Hardy’s fictional women, with whom he seems to have empathised, and the real women around him… who needed a certain hardiness (?) in their troubled relationships with him.
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
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An ingenious novelistic biography by a sharp young author that uses excerpts from the novels to shed light on the writer's life.
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life
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Thirteen essays by the Northcliffe Professor of English at UCL. An entertaining guide that looks at Dickens's choice of names, use of outrageous coincidence, and why he works best when read ... read more
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A compelling portrait of the writer and her engagement with her own world. Constructed as a series of essays on art, memory, painting, rank, property, appearance, etc., this is immensely rea... read more
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The third volume of his hugely entertaining memoirs, in which he recounts a decade of wrestling with the spirits of Oscar Wilde.
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
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