Richard Holmes

Broschiertes Buch

Sidetracks

Beschreibung

In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.

Autor

Richard Holmes is Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia, and editor of the Harper Perennial series Classic Biographies launched in 2004. His is a Fellow of the British Academy, has honorary doctorates from UEA and the Tavistock Institute, and was awarded an OBE in 1992. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. He has published two studies of European biography, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer in 1985, and Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer in 2000.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Revised edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780007204540
• ISBN-10: 000720454X
• Artikelnr.: 21836989