Biografie

London, Henrietta Street 1931, cm.14,5x22, pp.232, ill. legatura editoriale in tutta tela. Second edition.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985, cm.14x21,5, pp.124, aclune tavole bn.ft. brossura copertina figurata.

Translated by Allan Blunden. London, Pushkin Press 2012, cm.16x24, pp.384, legtaura editoriale cartonata, sopracoeprta figurata. This is the authorized biography of the world-famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It includes the sort of personal detail conspicuously absent from Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday, offering us a glimpse into the private world of this master of psychological insight. Drawing on a wealth of sources held by the Zweig estate, to which Oliver Matuschek had unique access, he recounts the eventful life of a writer spoilt by success, which changed direction under the influence of contemporary events and ended tragically in a suicide pact with his second wife Lotte. The title Three Lives refers to the three major phases in Zweig's life?his years of apprenticeship, his years of success as a professional "working writer" in Salzburg, and finally his years of exile in Britain, the United States, and Brazil.

(Autore britannico 1903 Londra-1966, Combe Florey, Regno Unito). Harper Collins 1975, cm.16x24, pp.814, legatura editoriale cartonata.

(1889, Tokyo, -1965, Londra). London, Victor Gollancz 1986, cm.15x23,5, pp.256, legatura editroiale cartonata, sopracoeprta figurata.

Hamish Hamilton 1988, cm.16,5x24, pp.512, loegtaura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori. In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life, and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia. He also breaks new ground in recreating the world that shaped the great novelist's life and art--the turmoil of ideas and politics in nineteenth-century Russia and the incredible literary renaissance that made Tolstoy's work possible. 24 pages of illustrations.

London, Collins 1990, cm.16x24, pp.IX,222, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori.

London, J.M. Dent 1904, cm.13x19,5, pp.XVI,404, ill. legatura editoriale in tutta tela.

New edition revised and in part rewritten by Frederic G. Kenyon. With two portraits. London, Smith Elder 1908, cm.13x19,5, pp.XVII,432, (8), legatura editoriale in tutta tela.

Paris, Flammarion 1999, cm.15x24, pp.520, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll. Grandes Biographies. Le nom de Goethe évoque une ombre majestueuse, mais un peu désuète, du genre de ces personnages impressionnants devant lesquels on s'incline sans jamais oser solliciter leur intervention. Le poète s'est forgé, en effet, cette statue de "pontife des lettres" en une œuvre de cent cinquante volumes; il trône en bronze dans nombre de capitales d'Europe septentrionale; il cautionne des écrits en tous genres : sciences, lettres, journaux. Banalisation d'un personnage dont la réputation finit par occulter la réalité. Or, la vie de Goethe, inquiète, tourmentée, correspond à deux questions qui le taraudent jusqu'à ce qu'il leur ait apporté une réponse - le Faust - et qui déterminent l'ensemble de son action, multiple, dans le monde. Si la première question - que suis-je ? - le conduit assez vite à la conviction qu'il est poète, la seconde - "qu'est-ce qu'être poète ?" - comblera toute son existence, parce qu'il entend la poésie comme la confrontation avec le monde dont il s'agit de percer le mystère. D'où ses multiples études et son effort pour être à la fois ministre, savant, botaniste, minéralogiste, acousticien, anatomiste, peintre, directeur de théâtre et de revues, amateur de lettres étrangères, de femmes et de bon vin. Si bien que l'illustre habitant de Weimar, drapé dans son manteau de prophète et phare de l'Europe intellectuelle et politique de son temps, s'amusera à se définir comme un combattant certes, mais aussi comme "l'homme le plus gai et le moins accompli d'Europe".

London Hollis & Carter 1957, cm.14x22, pp.XV,552, legatura editoriale in tutta tela. sopracoperta figurata.

London Hollis & Carter 1955, cm.14x22, pp.X,182, legatura editoriale in tutta tela.

University of Toronto Press 1994, cm.15x24, pp.XXIII,472, 29 figure bn.nt. legatura editoriale cartonata telata, sopracoperta figurata.

London, Hamish Hamilton 1984, cm.16x24, pp.X,398, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata.

London, Heinemann 1995, cm.16,5x24, pp.406, legtaura editoriale cartonata, sopracoeprta figurata.

London, Duckworth 1993, cm.16x24, pp.XII,478, legatura edirtoriale cartonata, sopracoperta. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) is a writer due for reappraisal. Well-known in his own lifetime, with a wide circle of friends - Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke, Katherine Mansfield and Thomas Hardy - he has been largely ignored by recent critics. Few know of his personal life, of his loving but difficult marriage, and the passionate and platonic affair with Naomi Royde-Smith which was so crucial to his poetry. This biography examines all aspects of de la Mare's life and art.

London, Michael Jospeh 1991, cm.16x24, pp.XXI,810, legatura editroirale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata. This biography embraces the entire scope of Victorian science, religion and society in its panoramic sweep. It puts the man and his science back into context, posing the question of how such a stickler for respectability as Charles Darwin could not only rock the scientific establishment, but construct a theory that threatened the fabric of society in the 1830s, when England teetered close to revolution? The authors explore the fiery debates during Darwin's student days in Edinburgh, his drunken revelries in prostitute-ridden Cambridge, sobering up on the "Beagle" and his clandestine work on evolution in London before fleeing to rural Kent.

Michael Russell 1995, cm.16x24, pp.XIII,370, legtaura editoriale cartonata, sopracoeprta.

Munchen, Carl Hanser Verlag 2005, cm.16x22, pp.800, legtaura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata. Die erste Biographie des Nobelpreisträgers Elias Canetti. Sven Hanuschek konnte als einer der ersten den Nachlass Canettis einsehen und Freunde und Weggefährten befragen. Und so erzählt er das Leben eines Menschen voller Leidenschaft und Energie, der trotz aller Begabung, Beziehungen zu knüpfen, immer ein Einzelgänger blieb. Er erzählt von einem Dichter, dessen Werk quer steht zu den großen Strömungen der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, und er erzählt von einem exemplarischen Schicksal jüdischer Emigration, das vom kleinen bulgarischen Rustschuk nach Wien, Berlin, London und Zürich führte.

London, Chatto & Windus 2013, cm.16x24, pp.528, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori. Edizione con firma autografa dell'autrice. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. The first group of these drew on her own experiences -- a boat on the Thames in the 1960s; the BBC in war time; a failing bookshop in a Suffolk; an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution; post-war Italy; Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Fitzgerald's life is as various, as cryptic and as intriguing as her fiction. It spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. She started publishing at sixty and became famous at eighty. This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence: a private form of heroism.

London, Chatto & Windus 2004, cm.17x24, pp.301, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori. Olivia Manning was a superb writer - extravagantly funny and deeply serious at the same time - but her talent was not fully recognised in her lifetime. This beautifully written biography puts the record straight. Born in 1908 in Portsmouth into a naval family, she seized independence at the first opportunity, making a penurious life for herself in London as a furniture painter at Peter Jones, before signing up as a wartime ambulance driver - although she had never learned to drive. Her personality was as idiosyncratic her novels. Her husband, Reggie Smith, was equally a 'character' - a BBC producer, self-proclaimed communist and life-long philanderer. Both indulged in affairs, but their unusual marriage was sustained by his lifelong support for his wife's gifts. After their adventurous war (Reggie was then in the British Council - and probably a spy) they became the centre of London literary life, numbering among their close friends Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, Stevie Smith, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Anthony Burgess and Laurence Durrell. Olivia Manning died in 1980 in their house on the Isle of Wight; a cat lover, she left most of her money to the Wood Green Animal sanctuary.

London, Constable 1993, cm.16,5x24, pp.336, legtaura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori.

Oxford, University Press 1984, cm.13x19,5, pp.278, brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Oxford, University Press 1988, cm.15,5x23, pp.XIII,764, brossura copertina figurata a colori.