Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris` "Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions" gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vigorously defended by George Bernard Shaw and hauled into court for libel by Wilde`s friend and lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, Harris` biography was published in England only in 1938. Famously inaccurate and lavishly self-serving, Harris` study none the less offers a highly evocative portrait of a compelling personality - or rather of two personalities, for Harris never shies from enlarging upon his roles as Wilde`s defender, adviser, and sometime friend. Impressionistic, vivid and well-paced, Harris` intimate account of Wilde`s rise and...
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Something of Myself, Rudyard Kipling’s memoir of his writing life, was composed in the year before he died and published posthumously. Its spare, polished phrases and masterly anecdotes offer a unique insight into the mind of this divided man who upheld the Victorian imperialist values of duty, patriotism and obedience, and yet sympathized with outlaws and children. Kipling describes with unforgettable vividness his bitter childhood years in the ‘House of Desolation’, his apprenticeship to the craft of writing through the hard grind of journalism in British India, his beloved parents and his pride in his own work. Reissued with a new introduction by Jan Montefiore, author of the brilliant recent study ‘Rudyard Kipling’, this...
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
