Hermione Lee Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Intimate, perceptive, critically acute, funny, and moving, this biography explores the life of one of the finest English novelists of the last century, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000). A great writer who would never describe herself as such, her novels are short, spare masterpieces that are self-concealing and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was hailed as genius. Her early novels drew from personal experiences, such as a boat on the Thames in the 1960s and a failing bookshop in Suffolk, while her later works ventured into historical realms, including pre-Revolution Russia and post-war Italy. Fitzgerald's life mirrored the complexity of her fiction, spanning the twentieth century and shifting from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, and from an intellectual family to hardship. First published at sixty and achieving fame at eighty, her story embodies lateness, patience, and a unique form of heroism. Despite being loved and admired, she remained mysterious, often presenting herself as an absent-minded old lady, concealing a sharp intellect and a rich imagination. This brilliant account, penned by a biographer Fitzgerald admired, delves into her life, writing, and enigmatic self with fascination.

Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master--the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers, and asks whether there are different strategies, ethics, and principles required for writing about one person compared to another. She also discusses contemporary biographical publications and considers what kind of "lives" are the most popular and in demand. And along the way, she answers such questions as why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal things? Does the biographer need topersonally know the subject? Must a biographer be subjective?About the Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Biographer Lee gives us a new Edith Wharton--tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born in 1862, Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. She developed a forceful literary professionalism and thrived in a luminous society that included Bernard Berenson, Aldous Huxley and most famously Henry James, who here emerges more as peer than as master. Wharton's life was fed by nonliterary enthusiasms as well: houses and gardens, relief efforts during the Great War, and the culture of the Old World, which she never tired of absorbing. Yet intimacy eluded her: unhappily married and childless, her one brush with passion came and went in midlife, an affair intimately recounted here. Lee interweaves Wharton's life with the evolution of her writing, the full scope of which shows her to be far more daring than her stereotype as lapidarian chronicler of the Gilded Age.--From publisher description

What choices must a biographer make when stitching together a life into a coherent narrative? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an acclaimed biographer explores how biography navigates myths, legends, and the inevitable gaps in a subject's story. Through various case studies, the author examines the challenges posed by absences and unprovable tales surrounding figures like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Virginia Woolf. Notable essays include one that discusses Shelley's heart found in a book and another that analyzes five competing accounts of a dramatic moment in Austen's life, highlighting how biography engages with the private lives of famous women. The exploration of Woolf's life reveals the transformations her story has undergone through biography, fiction, and film, suggesting that no definitive version exists. Additionally, an essay on deathbed scenes reflects on how biographical conventions have evolved and why endings are imbued with special significance. Through these essays, the author sheds light on how biographers bring their subjects to life and offers captivating insights into the art of life-writing, articulating and redefining the parameters of this craft with wit and eloquence.

Offers subject essays and more than one thousand author entries and four thousand fiction titles, covering a wide variety of genres and styles for literary, contemporary, and popular fiction, along with reading suggestions, lists of authors' favorite books, international selections, and other helpful sections. Reprint.

A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf's Journal - from 1879 to 1909. Beginning in early January, when Woolf was almost fifteen, the pages open at a time when she was slowly recovering from a period of madness following her mother's death in May 1895. Between this January and the autumn of 1904, Woolf would suffer the deaths of her half-sister and of her father, and survive a summer of madness and suicidal depression. Behind the loss and confusion, however, and always near the surface of her writing is a constructive force at work - a powerful impulse towards health. It was an urge, through writing, to bring order and continuity out of chaos. Putting things into words and giving them deliberate expression had the effect of restoring reality to much that might otherwise have remained insubstantial. This early chronicle represents the beginning of the future Virginia Woolf's apprenticeship as a novelist. These pages show that rare instance when a writer of great importance leaves behind not only the actual documents of an apprenticeship, but also a biographical record of that momentous period as well. In Woolf's words, 'Here is a volume of fairly acute life (the first really lived year of my life).'

Der gesundheitliche Zusammenbruch des Vaters beendet die kindliche Idylle, als Elizabeth Bowen sieben Jahre alt ist. Mit ihrer Mutter geht sie nach England, wo die weitverzweigte Familie lebt, und sie von einer Villa zur anderen gereicht werden. Dieser vagabundierende Lebensstil ist die Basis vieler unsicherer Kindheiten, die Bowen in ihren Romanen beschreiben wird.§Nach Jahren im Internat, dem Schulabschluss und zwei Semestern Kunststudium entscheidet sich Elizabeth Bowen anders: sie will das literarische Leben in London "einfangen", wie sie es nennt, und beginnt mit dem Schreiben. Der literarische Erfolg kommt früh: der 1923 veröffentlichte Erzählungsband "Encounters" ist der Auftakt zu einer großen literarischen Karriere. Ihr Haus in London wird zum Treffpunkt der damaligen Schriftsteller-Szene.§Hermione Lee beschreibt das Leben Elizabeth Bowens und führt durch ihre Romane und Erzählungen: entstanden ist das umfassende Portrait einer großen Autorin des 20. Jahrhunderts, die es für Deutschland zu entdecken.

Designed for both general readers and students of English literature at all levels, this edition of Trollope's novel contains an introduction, notes and comments on the text.

'Mein Gott, wie schreibt man eine Biographie?' Dieses Zitat Virginia Woolfs eröffnet eine Lebensbeschreibung, die in vielen Rezensionen als biographisches Meisterstück gerühmt worden ist. Mit ihrem monumentalen Werk macht Hermione Lee unser Bild von Virginia Woolf um einige Klischees ärmer und um viele Nuancen reicher. Sie setzt sich intensiv und skeptisch mit den oft wiederholten Darstellungen von ihr als Opfer - ihres düsteren viktorianischen Elternhauses, der sexuellen Zudringlichkeit ihrer älteren Brüder, ihrer Geisteskrankheit - auseinander und zeigt, mit welchem Mut Virginia Woolf sich im Lauf ihres Lebens ihren frühen Erfahrungen und inneren Widersprüchen stellte und sie kraftvoll umsetzte in ihr literarisches Werk. Mit großem Feingefühl geht die Autorin den wichtigsten Beziehungen in Virginia Woolfs Leben - zu ihrer Schwester Vanessa, zu ihrem Mann Leonard, zu Vita Sackville-West - nach und definiert sie anders, als man es bisher gewohnt war. Hermione Lee widmet sich ihrem Gegenstand mit leidenschaftlichem Interesse und genauester Kenntnis. Sie kommt zu überraschenden Ergebnissen und präsentiert sie mit schriftstellerischem Glanz.

Das Ehepaar Ramsay, ihre acht Kinder und mehrere Hausgäste verbringen den Sommer in ihrem Landhaus auf der schottischen Isle of Skye. James, der Jüngste, wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als mit dem Boot zum Leuchtturm hinauszufahren. »Natürlich, wenn es schön wird«, versichert Mrs Ramsay. »Aber es wird nicht schön«, erklärt Mr Ramsay – und macht alle Hoffnung des Sechsjährigen erbarmungslos zunichte. Zehn Jahre und der ganze Erste Weltkrieg vergehen, bis die Fahrt stattfinden kann. In Zum Leuchtturm zeichnet Virginia Woolf auf meisterhafte Weise das innere Erleben von einer Handvoll Figuren an wenigen Tagen in den Jahren 1910 und 1920 nach, erforscht Machtverhältnisse in Familienbeziehungen und zwischen den Geschlechtern und nähert sich ihren eigenen Kindheitserinnerungen.

A selection from the GOLDEN TREASURY, which has remained the most famous poetry anthology since publication in 1861