Ebook: Several strangers: writing from three decades
Author: Tomalin Claire
- Tags: American literature, American literature--History and criticism, Books, Engels, English literature, English literature--History and criticism, Letterkunde, Literary Studies: General, Electronic books, Reviews, Criticism interpretation etc, English literature -- History and criticism, American literature -- History and criticism, Books -- Reviews
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London
- Language: English
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Several Strangers is an acclaimed literary collection by bestselling author Claire Tomalin
From the celebrated biographer of Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, Several Strangers collects together the best of Claire Tomalin's literary pieces over a period of thirty years - including reviews of books on Freud, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Christina Rossetti and Virginia Woolf. Through three long, splendidly written 'introductions' - the book also tells of the author's own involvement in literary journalism during that time. The result is a fascinating account of how a woman was able to survive in the male world of books and newspapers. Along the way there are brilliant portraits of Martin Amis, Andrew Neill and Julian Barnes amongst others.
Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft;...