There have been many books on Plath, but this is in fact the first full biography. Sensitive and perceptive, it navigates both the controversies and poetry with skill.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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£30.00
Edition:Hardback978178733253915/10/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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As entertaining as it is fascinating: it turns out the poet's ancestors were quite an act to follow. (He did!)
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Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
Lampedusa
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An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Paperback £11.99