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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Esteemed biographer and legendary literary editor Claire Tomalin's stunning memoir of a life in literature " An] intelligent and humane book...There is genuine appeal in watching this indomitable woman continue to chase the next draft of herself." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times In A Life of My ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Charles Dickens : A Life by Claire Tomalin
50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pick ...Show more
Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, who was well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful. This text, which draws on Pepys' own personal diary, covers his childhood and young adulthood. It goes beyond the source material to explore the inner man.
Samuel Pepys - The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
29.95 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to ...Show more
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The late seventeenth century saw a revolution in man's thought, as Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil servant in London began to observe, with something of the same dispassionate curiosity, the strange object around which for h ...Show more
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", lived through the Terror in France, had an illegitimate daughter and married the philosopher William Godwin before dying in childbirth at ...Show more
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
34.95 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement; produced an il ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H.G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin's remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early l ...Show more
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World by Claire Tomalin
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to ...Show more
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This semin ...Show more
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin
29.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred figures in English writing, a great poet and a novelist with a world reputation. His life was also extraordinary: from the poverty of rural Dorset he went on to become the Grand Old Man of English life and letters, his last resting place in Westminster Abbey. This semin ...Show more