Described by the late poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky as "the best British author writing today", Tim Parks is as prolific a journalist, critic and translator as he is a novelist. In this book, Gillian Fenwick explores Parks' body of work and maintains that Parks is the epitome of the modern man of letters. The novels that Parks set in his ...
Detailed information and practical projects are provided in this series to educate and entertain children. Suitable for use at home or school, it contains projects to develop an understanding of space and its environment.
This is a guidebook to the multifaceted career of the popular travel writer and historian. "Traveling Genius" surveys the half century of work by British writer Jan Morris, including more than fifty books and thousands of essays and reviews, from 1950s America via Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Sydney, and Hong Kong to her home in Wales. Internationally ...
This is the first guide to the contributors to the DNB: authors, academics, recognised authorities on their subjects, and in many cases young writers making their first appearance in print.
This reference work offers bibliographic information on those volumes of the Dictionary of National Bibliography which deal with the years 1885 to 1985 and also on the work entitled "Missing Persons".
In the 40 years after he left Cambridge in 1864, Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) published 30 volumes of his own writings, and contributed to another 20 books. He wrote literally hundreds of articles for British and American magazines, and worked as editor of "The Cornhill Magazine" and "Alpine Journal", as well as the "Dictionary of National Biography ...
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