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Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Peerless literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This en ...Show more
Matisse the Master (Volume 2) by Hilary Spurling
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Life of Henri Matisse (Volume 2: 1909-1954) In this astounding book (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005) Hilary Spurling's fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for ...Show more
The Girl from the Fiction Department:A portarit of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four - was altogether different. Beautiful, intelligent and fier ...Show more
The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1) by Hilary Spurling
47.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in na ...Show more
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