Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a magical radiance. "The Times" called her the 'uncrowned queen of England' but behind her public success lay a darker story. The child-bride of G. F. Watts, she eloped with a friend of Oscar Wilde at 21 and gave birth to 2 illegitimate children. But her greatest partnership was on ...
Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. In the 1960s he was seen as a progenitor of the hippy cult. In the 1990s he appears as a far more subversive and challenging figure. He revolutionized the writing of biography and smuggled ...
The acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey collects selections from his own lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a century mainly on the craft of biography and autobiography, but also covering what Holroyd describes as his "enthusiasms and alibis."
The third and final volume of Michael Holroyd's Olympian biography of George Bernard Shaw, The Lure of Fantasy brings the magnificent live of Shaw to a triumphant climax. Volume 3 opens with Shaw's impassioned (and unheeded) campaign for a just peace after World War I, and ends some three decades later with his death at age 95. Holroyd brings to ...
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Bernard Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. This biography of Bernard Shaw presents a portrait of an age and a man who was born 50 years too soon.
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Holroyd has cut his huge biography to a manageable single-volume life - the definitive Shaw for general readers and students alike.
Lytton Strachey was one of the leaders of the Bloomsbury group of artists and intellectuals who included Virginia & Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa & Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant. A wit and iconoclast, he was a conscientious objector during the First World War, and an open homosexual at a time when it was not ...
George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to laughter. In one of his best-loved plays, "Pygmalion, " which later became the basis for the musical "My Fair Lady, " Shaw compels the ...
A follow-up to Michael Holroyd's previous memoir, BASIL STREET BLUES, this volume expands on it and reveals some of the events in its aftermath (such as family reactions and fan letters). It also covers some entirely new material, including a pivotal love affair in the author's life.
Novelist and biographer Holroyd tells the story of his family's life from their glory days as officers in colonial India and wealthy tea-plantation owners to shabbier times, when Holroyd's parents divorced and managed to squander what little family money was left. Anecdotes from English prep school abound, as do tales of the various ways he ...
The first of three volumes on the life of George Bernard Shaw, covering the last half of the 19th century. "First-rate . . . there should be no need for another biography of (Shaw) for perhaps a century".--The New York Times Book Review. 32 pages of photographs.
This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.' In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal - his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, ...
When Michael Holroyd published 'Basil Street Blues', it was the beginning of a story rather than the end. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. 'Mosaic' is Michael's piecing together of these remarkable revelations: some of which are pleasant ...
When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece. Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his ...
Novelist and biographer Holroyd tells the story of his family's life from their glory days as officers in colonial India and wealthy tea-plantation owners to shabbier times, when Holroyd's parents divorced and managed to squander what little family money was left. Anecdotes from English prep school abound, as do tales of the various ways he ...
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