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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Richard Holmes
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Description for This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; BG; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
`A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and others almost lost: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Stael, Mary ... Read more
`A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and others almost lost: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Stael, Mary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008168728
SKU
9780008168728
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Ref
99-6
About Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes is the author of the prize-winning and bestselling `The Age of Wonder', which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books (UK) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (USA). He has written many other books including `Falling Upwards', an uplifting account of the pioneering generation of balloon ... Read more
Reviews for This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
`A must read ... intriguing and satisfying ... All the sketches makes illuminating reading, in many cases deliberately setting out to provoke a rethink of earlier biographies ... I thoroughly enjoyed the book; indeed I devoured it' Athene Donald, Guardian `Compulsive, fastidious journey through 50 ... Read more