Ebook: Written Lives

William Faulkner on horseback -- Joseph Conrad on land -- Isak Dinesen in old age -- James Joyce in his poses -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in class -- Henry James on a visit -- Arthur Conan Doyle and women -- Robert Louis Stevenson among criminals -- Ivan Turgenev in his sadness -- Thomas Mann in his suffering -- Vladimir Nabokov in raptures -- Rainer Maria Rilke in waiting -- Malcolm Lawry beset by calamity -- Madame du Deffand and the idiots -- Rudyard Kipling without jokes -- Arthur Rimbaud against art -- Djuna Barnes in silence -- Oscar Wilde after prison -- Yukio Mishima in death -- Laurence Sterne at the end -- Fugitive women: Lady Hester Stanhope, the queen of the desert ; Vernon Lee, the tiger-cat ; Adah Isaacs Menken, the equestrian poetess ; Violet Hunt, the improper person of Babylon ; Julie de Lespinasse, the amorous mistress ; Emily Brontë, the silent major -- Perfect artists.