Biografie

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

London, Collins 1990, cm.16x24, pp.IX,222, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta 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. sopraccoperta figurata.

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

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

London, Heinemann 1995, cm.16,5x24, pp.406, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata.

London, Duckworth 1993, cm.16x24, pp.XII,478, legatura edirtoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta. 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 Joseph 1991, cm.16x24, pp.XXI,810, legatura editorirale cartonata, sopraccoperta 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, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta.

London, Chatto & Windus 2013, cm.16x24, pp.528, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta 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, Constable 1993, cm.16,5x24, pp.336, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata a colori.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007, cm.16x24, pp.VIII,436, ill. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata a colori.

A Paladin Book- Granada 1983, cm.13x19,5, pp.496, alcune tavole bn.ft. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

London, The Reprint Society 1947, cm.13x19, pp.XII,496, legatura editoriale cartonata.

London, Constable 1992, cm.16x24, pp.213, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. The two questions that are put to Muriel Spark most frequently are these: "Are your novels autobiographical?" and "Why did you become a Catholic?" The first of these questions Muriel Spark has consistently deflected. Now in this volume, she gives her readers the answers to both questions. In her first novel, "The Comforters", Mrs Spark wrote about a young woman recently converted to Catholicism who struggles against the will of the novelist who has created her. Many assumed that this reflected the author's own religious experience and self-consciousness about the business of writing fiction. But before then Muriel Spark had already written autobiographical studies and works of literary criticism, and had determined that she would be first and foremost a poet. Muriel Spark writes about her childhood in Edinburgh (foreigners were tolerated but the English were something quite different); she describes her Jewish father, the original Miss Jean Brodie, her marriage and her time in Africa which was the inspiration for "The Go-Away Bird" and so much of her early writing. There have been hints in later novels of her work as a publisher's editor ("A Far Cry From Kensington"), her lodgings in London ("The Ballad of Peckham Rye") and her work for the Poetry Society. Now Mrs Spark gives a direct account of the people and places which inspired so much of her work.

L' anarchico che sfidava tutte le polizie d'Europa. Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1973, cm.16x21,5, pp.124,(4), alcune ill. a uno e a 2 col.nt., legatura editoriale cartonata. Coll.I Grandi Contestatori,10.

E' stato mai capito in fondo questo rivoluzionario idealista? Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1973, cm.16x21,5, pp.124,(4), alcune ill. a uno e a 2 col.nt., legatura editoriale cartonata. Coll.I Grandi Contestatori,12.

Uccise Cesare per salvare la libertà di Roma. Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1973, cm.16x21,5, pp.124,(4), alcune ill. a uno e a 2 col.nt., legatura editoriale cartonata. Coll.I Grandi Contestatori,8.

Rifiutò la ricchezza del padre e respinse il fasrto della Chiesa. Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1973, cm.16x21,5, pp.124,(4), alcune ill. a uno e a 2 col.nt., legatura editoriale cartonata. Coll.I Grandi Contestatori,4.

Traduzione di Gian Piero Brega. Milano, Feltrinelli Ed. 1962, cm.12,7x20, pp.640, 14 ill.bn.nt.e 24 tavv.bn.ft. legatura editoriale copertine figurate. Coll.Biografie,11.

Milano, Dall'Oglio Ed. 1958, cm.16x22, pp.408, 28 ill.bn.nt.e 16 tavv.bn.ft. legatura editoriale in tutta tela, copertina figurata. Coll.Storica.