Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Contents Include: The Traveller Returns Literary Friendships Social Triumphs The Year of the Waltz Miss Milbank Cheltenham Lady Oxford Madame de Stael Lady Frances Mary Chaworth Reappears Thoughts of Marriage First Visit to Seaham Byron at Six Mile Bottom Byron Leaves England Keywords: Six Mile Bottom Literary Friendships Traveller Returns Lady Frances Madame De Stael Milbank Cheltenham Waltz Triumphs Oxford Marriage Englan...read more

The Routledge Who's Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays. It provides:* detailed biographical information on each leading figure* analyses of the role and significance of each minor figure* a reliable guide to the huge Shakespearian canon for student and teacher* quotations from famous critics* useful information on some of Shakespeare's sourcesFrom Antonio to Yorick, Macbeth to Mercutio, this book embraces the breadth and depth of the world's most important playwright.

Product Description: Peter Quennell has been fascinated by the subject of happiness since early childhood, when he first sought to understand its meaning, and to establish whether or not anyone ever actually attained it. Studying the lives and works of creative artists from the Old Stone Age to the present day, this book analyzes how individual men and women have been inspired by this universally shared human pursuit...read more

Offers biographical studies of four influential figures in Great Britain during the eighteenth century

Product Description: A Superficial Journey is the result of a year spent in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Peking. "A kind of travel film, a sequence in which image suggests image," it describes, in vivid Quennell's vivid prose, Kabuki actors, Tokyo's Joy Quarter, the tomb-ridden vistas of North China, and the political gossip of Peking in the 1930s...read more

Victoria Glendinning, Peter Quennell, Harold Acton, Joanna Richardson, and others recreate the drama and personalities connected with great European and American salons

Product Description: A noted British critic here examines those aspects of Byron's life and thought which were peculiarly modern, set against the background of the Romantic movement.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

A biography of the English author who overcame a physical disability and the adverse criticism of his contemporaries to achieve literary success