Biography: Literary

A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafkas life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his lif...

A new account of the brilliant and prolific Danish writer whose works captivated readers across Europe Rarely does an American or European child gr...

Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous u...

Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (18541900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poe...

The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America a...

Emily Brontë occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitch...

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near-photographic memory made his contact with the c...

Natalie Barney,'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their ...

A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating ...

Agatha Christie was the most famous female crime writers of all time, and yet in December 1926 when she was 35 years old, became the subject of a m...

The extraordinary life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century, by Prousts definitive biographer (...

In the bicentenary year of the publication of Sir Walter Scotts first novel Waverley, this is a timely republication of Buchans work The Man and th...