автор: Michael Holroyd

A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a …

As read on BBC Radio 4Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for A Strange Eventful History and winner of the Lifetime Services to Biography Award.Michael Holroyd is one of the …

Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John’s first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century.Twelve days before her …

Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography. Learning …

A captivating collection of pieces about the art of narration by Britain»s finest biographer, Michael Holroyd In this collection of pieces, Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the …

When Michael Holroyd’s life of Strachey first appeared in the late 1960s, it was hailed as a landmark in contemporary biography. Drawing on new material, published and unpublished, Holroyd completely …

This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd’s two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the …

Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Bernard Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. This is Michael …

Michael Holroyd the most famous biographer in Britain turns his attention upon himself and his own family in Basil Street Blues (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was …

‘This is a book about surprises at any rate, it has surprised me.’ In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something …

A BOOK OF SECRETS is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a …

While working on his two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd had access to the Strachey archives. From the same source he collected all Strachey’s diaries and memoirs, which together …

‘A wonderful offbeat memoir…. Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet.’—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family wa …

‘We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers.’—The New York Times Book Review In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd’s masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Sha …

A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, M …

‘A triumphant success. . . . His prose is confident, clear . . . occasionally perfect.’ —Dennis Potter, The Times (London) ‘It is impossible to suppose that this ‘Life’ will ever be superseded . . . …

«Un libro de secretos es, sin duda, un libro de revelaciones, de sorpresas emotivas… Una narración bellamente estructurada, salpicada de sorpresas y deslumbrantes cambios de enfoque». The Daily …

Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper …

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