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 aloud.
The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist
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The eminent Irish historian and Yeats biographer works wonders with this assessment of the life, work and times of Seamus Heaney.
On Seamus Heaney
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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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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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