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Elegy for Iris

Elegy for Iris more books like this

by John Bayley

John Bayley's tribute to his wife, the novelist Iris Murdoch, who in her late 70s is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is both touching and eccentric.

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Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire

Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire more books like this

by John Bayley

As his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, lost her memory to Alzheimer's, John Bayley delved deeper into his own to produce this memoir of childhood in prewar England. A follow-up to his earlier memoir, ELEGY FOR IRIS, this book focuses more on Bayley than it does on his wife.

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Iris : a memoir of Iris Murdoch more books like this

by John Bayley

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Outside the Gates of the World

Outside the Gates of the World more books like this

by Thomas Hardy, John Bayley (Editor), Jan Jedrzejewski (Editor)

Tales of love lost and revenge won; of passions stifled and creed observed; of 'things eternal and universal'. Such are the everyday themes of Hardy's extraordinary stories woven in fine folkloric fashion around the enigmatic personages of the milkmaid and her burgher, the widow and the preacher, the hangman and his victim.

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Art and anarchy more books like this

by Edgar Wind

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The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002

The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002 more books like this

by John Bayley, Leo Carey (Creator)

A magnum opus and a cause for celebration from one of the world's foremost critics. Beginning his career at Oxford in the 1950s, the ever-incisive John Bayley has been one of the great bulwarks—in the tradition of William Hazlitt and Edmund Wilson—of twentieth-century world literature, and his distinctive sensibility has reshaped tastes ...

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Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring

Offshore, Human Voices, the Beginning of Spring more books like this

by Penelope Fitzgerald, John Bayley (Introduction by)

This collection of Fitzgerald's works features novels of British barge-dwellers in the 1960s, the BBC during World War II, and an English printer and his children living in Moscow during the Russian Revolution. Ribbon marker.

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Tolstoy and the Novel more books like this

by John Bayley

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The red hat

The red hat more books like this

by John Bayley

Three English art lovers--Nancy, Cloe, and Charles--go to The Hague to see Vermeer's painting in which a red hat appears. Cloe disappears, possibly kidnapped. Nancy takes off with a man who may be either a policeman or an intelligence agent. A fourth friend sets out to find her and uncovers more mysteries. This novel, by the distinguished English ...

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Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home

Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home more books like this

by John Bayley

A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol. When retired professor Bayley lost his beloved wife of 44 years, he didn't realize that life would never be the same due to the dozens of well-meaning women who showed up to console him.

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The order of battle at Trafalgar and other essays more books like this

by John Bayley

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The Pritchett Century: A Selection of the Best by V. S. Pritchett

The Pritchett Century: A Selection of the Best by V. S. Pritchett more books like this

by V S Pritchett, John Bayley (Introduction by), Oliver Pritchett (Foreword by)

Selections from the work of V. S. Pritchett (who was born in 1900), including memoirs, essays, travel writing, novels, short stories, and criticism.

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The characters of love; a study in the literature of personality. more books like this

by John Bayley

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Shakespeare and Tragedy more books like this

by John Bayley

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Collected Stories: 1892-1910

Collected Stories: 1892-1910 more books like this

by Henry James, John Bayley (Translator)

James's dense, complex prose style and his deep and subtle musings into the springs of character are as evident in his short stories as in his novels. Like much of his fiction, his short works are often about the contrasts between America and Europe or the plight of the artist, and many of them are influenced by the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. ...

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New Poems

New Poems more books like this

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Cohn (Translator), John Bayley (Introduction by)

Early works by the German poet, many of them influenced by Christianity and classical themes.

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Good Companions: An Anthology to Inspire, Amuse or Console more books like this

by John Bayley

John Bayley takes us through 70 years of extensive reading, judiciously selecting extracts from novels, poems, letters, and diaries that have long been his good companions--inspiring or amusing him or soothing his spirits in times of adversity. Unlike many standard anthologies, "Good Companions" is highly personal and full of Bayley's wit and ...

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An Essay on Hardy more books like this

by John Bayley

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Pushkin: Comparative Commentary more books like this

by John Bayley

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Iris and the friends : a year of memories more books like this

by John Bayley

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Widower's house more books like this

by John Bayley

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Collected Stories: 1866-91 more books like this

by Henry James, John Bayley (Selected by)

James's dense, complex prose style and his deep and subtle musings into the springs of character are as evident in his short stories as in his novels. Like much of his fiction, his short works are often about the contrasts between America and Europe or the plight of the artist, and many of them are influenced by the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. ...

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Iris more books like this

by John Bayley

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The Romantic survival: a study in poetic evolution. more books like this

by John Bayley

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Star Virus & Mask of Chaos (Double Paperback)

by Bayley Barrington; Jakes J, John

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