Written Lives
$43.86
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
Short, capricious and irreverent portraits illuminate the lives of twenty-six great writers from Joyce to Wilde.
In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic sainthood. Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as ‘The Major’, among many other stories of e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141389271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141389273 |
| Author: | Javier Marías |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this
No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this * Daily Telegraph *Marias is a deeply necessary writer, a crusader, funny, pungent, full of wrath and love * Guardian *Anybody who doesn’t read Marías is doomed * Nation *You are dazzled by the author’s intelligence and understanding of human nature * Scotsman *
About The Author
Javier Marías
Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.
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