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1	A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $10.18! new only from $16.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Lytton Strachey more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Bernard Shaw more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Last Laugh more books like this by Michael Holroyd, George Bernard Shaw add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $35.00! \| first editions
5	Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.07! new only from $3.46! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Works on Paper more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Pygmalion and Major Barbara more books like this by George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd (Introduction by), Bernard Shaw add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.62! \| SVS
8	Lytton Strachey: The New Biography more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.05! \| first editions
10	Basil Street Blues: A Memoir more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.75! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Illustrated Queen Victoria more books like this by Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.64! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Bernard Shaw: 1856-1898: The Search for Love more books like this by Michael Holroyd, J M Fox (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Bernard Shaw V 1: The Search for Love (1856-1898) more books like this by Michael Holroyd, LuAnn Walther (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Mosaic: Portraits in Fragments more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $16.13! \| first editions
15	Augustus John : a biography. Vol.2, The years of experience more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
16	Art of Augustus John more books like this by Michael Holroyd, Malcolm Easton, Augustus John add to wishlist see all copies from $8.49! first editions
17	Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group: His Work, Their Influence more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
18	The shorter Strachey more books like this by Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd, Paul Levy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19 view cover	Major Critical Essays more books like this by George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.69! new only from $99.00!
20 view cover	The Lure of Fantasy more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist The final volume in a set of three which chronicles the life and work of George Bernard Shaw. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Basil Street Blues more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Bernard Shaw V 3 and 4: The Concluding Volume more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist The concluding volumes of Michael Holroyd's biography of the iconoclastic playwright, social reformer, and wit. see all copies from $1.99!
23 view cover	Augustus John: The New Biography more books like this by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist A completely revised edition of the classic biography first published in two volumes in 1974-5. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Swedish Reflections more books like this by Judith Black, Jim Potts, Michael Holroyd (Editor) add to wishlist I see all copies from $3.71! new only from $8.81! \| first editions
25	A dog's life; a novel. by Michael Holroyd add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! signed copies \| first editions

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