Written Lives [electronic resource]
Marías, Javier2013
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From Rudyard Kipling to James Joyce, Emily Brontë to Vernon Lee and Henry James to Joseph Conrad, Written Lives throws a new and fascinating light upon these well-known literary figures. Inspired to revisit the lives of some of the world's most eminent writers of all time, looking at them from the angle of some peculiar detail of their lives, Javier Marias provides a lively and illuminating insight into personalities we thought we knew everything about. Told with affection and humour, these brief 'written lives' throw a refreshing, and very human, light on authors too-often enshrined, or entombed, within the halo of artistic sainthood.
Main title:
Written Lives [electronic resource] / Javier Marías
Author:
Marías, Javier, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Javier Marías is the author of nine novels, two collections of short stories and seven collections of essays. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Dark Back of Time, Your Face Tomorrow, All Souls and A Heart So White (winner of the prestigious IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award). He has also translated many of the English classics into Spanish, including Conrad, Stevenson, Hardy, Yeats, Auden and Sterne. He lives in Madrid.
ISBN:
9781847677297
Language:
English
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BRN:
2907181
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