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Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)

literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar

  • Yale University, University of Dublin
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Yeats
Four Dubliners
Eminent domain
James Joyce's hundredth birthday, side and front views
Yeats and Joyce
Oscar Wilde at Oxford
Letters
Oscar Wilde
Golden codgers; biographical speculations
Four Dubliners--Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
W.B. Yeats's second puberty
Literary biography
Letters of James Joyce. 2-3/3
Yeats, the man and the masks
Golden codgers
The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry
The modern tradition
Edwardians and late Victorians
Ulysses on the Liffey
The identity of Yeats
A long the riverrun
Letters. 4/4
The New Oxford book of American verse
Oscar Wilde; a collection of critical essays
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The consciousness of Joyce
Modern poems
The identity of Yeats
James Joyce Part 2
The uses of decadence
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Yeats
Modern Poems
Joyce in love
The uses of decadence
Along the Riverrun
Omnium Gatherum
Modern poems
The modern tradition
Odysseus in Dublin
James Joyce Part 1
Oscar Wilde   Part 1 Of 2
The Oscar Wilde playing cards
Samuel Beckett, Nayman of Noland
FOUR DUBLINERS
Modern poems
James Joyce's tower
Ulysses
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
Oscar Wilde. Biographie
Wilde and the nineties
Golden Codgers
The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Henry James among the aesthetes
Ulysses the divine nobody
Oskar Uaĭlʹd
Yeats, the man and the masks
Oscar Wilde (20th Century Views)
Cuatro Dublineses
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
The backgrounds of Ulysses
Vier Dubliner
The Norton anthology of modern poetry
The modern tradition
The limits of Joyce's naturalism
The identity of Yeats. --
Oscar Wilde   Part 2 Of 2
James Joyce's tower
Edwardians and late Victorians
W.B.Yeats
Ulysses on the Liffey
The New Oxford book of American verse
Ronald Hayman
Ronald Hayman (1932-2019)

biographer, literary critic, playwright, actor

  • University of Cambridge
Tennessee Williams
Proust
Thomas Mann
John Gielgud
Hitler and Geli
A life of Jung
K
The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath
De Sade
Sartre
Artaud and after
John Osborne
Nietzsche, a critical life
Brecht
Fassbinder, film maker
Secrets
Nietzsche
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
John Arden
Thed eath and life of Sylvia Plath
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
Writing against
My Cambridge
Sartre
The death and life of Sylvia Plath
Fassbinder
Writing Against a Biography of Sartre
De Sade
How to read a play
Arnold Wesker
Harold Pinter
Theatre and anti-theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Gunter Grass
Tom Stoppard
Arthur Miller
My Oxford, my Cambridge
Edward Albee
Samuel Beckett
Nietzsche
Eugène Ionesco
British theatre since 1955
Tolstoy
The set-up
Günter Grass
Playback
British drama since 1970
Leavis
Samuel Beckett
Techniques of acting
John Whiting
The first thrust
Contemporary playwrights
My Cambridge (My University)
Eugene Ionesco
Brecht
Playback 2
The novel today, 1967-1975
Leavis
Playing the wife
Fassbinder
Arnold Wesker
The German theatre
Robert Bolt
Marquis de Sade
How to read a play
Secrets
John Arden
Literature and living
The novel today
Arthur Miller (Contemporary Playwrights)
One hundred years of drama
Edward Albee (Contemporary Playwrights)
Tom Stoppard (Contemporary Playwrights)
Marcel Proust. Die Geschichte seines Lebens
Tolstoy (Profiles in Literature)
Arnold Wesker. (World dramatists)
Heroes, villains and true love conquers all
Situation de la littérature anglaise d'après-guerre
Arguing with Walt Whitman
Ḳafḳa
Harold Pinter
Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster (1938-2016)

journalist, literary critic, biographer, historian

  • University of Oxford
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Daphne du Maurier
Significant sisters
Hidden Lives
William Makepeace Thackeray
Precious lives
GOOD WIVES?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The rash adventurer
Gerald
My Life in Houses
The rash adventurer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Precious lives
My life in houses
The bride of Lowther Fell
Diary of an ordinary woman 1914-1995
Private papers
Memoirs of a Victorian gentleman, William Makepeace Thackeray
Keeping the World Away
Mr. Bone's retreat
Lady's Maid
The memory box
Battle for Christabel
Have the Men Had Enough?
Seduction of Mrs.Pendlebury
Georgy girl
The battle for Christabel
Fenella Phizackerley
Mothers' boys
Have the Men Had Enough?
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Mother Can You Hear Me?
Over
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Isa & May
BP Portrait Award
KEEPING THE WORLD AWAY
Mother Can You Hear Me?
Miss Owen-Owen
OVER
Rich Desserts & Captain's Thin
Significant Sisters
Marital rites
Lady's maid
Chemie für die Sekundarstufe 1. Bd. 2. Schülerbuch. Brandenburg.
The park
Diary of an Ordinary Schoolgirl
Rich desserts and captain's thin
The Battle for Christabel
Private Papers
The Seduction of Mrs. Pendlebury
The Memory Box
Is there anything you want?
The unknown bridesmaid
Isa & May
The travels of Maudie Tipstaff
Shadow baby
Daphne DuMaurier. Ein Leben
Dieses so kostbare Leben
The bogeyman
The travels of Maudie Tipstaff
Ich glaube, ich fahre in die Highlands. Roman
Familiengeheimnisse
The Memory Box (Horatio Hornblower Adventures)
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Schattenkinder
Fenella Phizackerley
Is There Anything You Want?
Die Dienerin
Nichts wird mehr sein, wie es war
How to Measure a Cow
Private Papers
Dames' Delight
Shadow Baby
Shadow Baby - Horatio Hornblower Adventures
Ich glaube, ich fahre in die Highlands. Jubiläums-Edition. Roman
Das Vermächtnis meiner Mutter
Miss Owen-Owen is at home
Dames' Delight
Christabel. Roman
Projects
Georgy Girl
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT?
Daphne Du Maurier ("Good Housekeeping" Audio Collection)
A Policy Maker's Guide to International Achievement Studies
Shadow baby
William Makepeace Thackery Memoirs of A
Die Dienerin. Sonderausgabe
Portfolios
Keeping the world away
La Boîte aux souvenirs
Ritos Conyugales
The travels of Maudie Tipstaff
A girl called Fathom
DIARY OF AN ORDINARY WOMAN: 1914-1995
Mother can you hear me?
Miss Owen-Owen is at home
Keeping the world away
Rash Adventurer Edward Stuart
Isa & May
Diary of an ordinary woman
Greg Kot
Greg Kot (born 1957)

journalist, biographer, music critic, music publicist, coach

Wilco
I'll take you there
Ripped
Coaching Youth Basketball
Turn It Up
100 Posters / 134 Squirrels
Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Basketball
Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal (born 1964)

ceramicist, printmaker, art critic, visual artist, potter

  • University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge
The Hare With Amber Eyes A Hidden Inheritance
The White Road
Letters to Camondo
Bānādo Rīchi saikō
Za︠i︡a︠t︡s s ︠i︡antarnymi glazami
Bernard Leach
20th century ceramics
New Ceramic Design
Edmund De Waal
Japanese Netsuke
Timeless Beauty
The pot book
Ceramics (Design Sourcebook)
Edmund de Waal Library of Exile
Edmund de Waal Letters to Camondo /anglais
John Golding - Working Space. The 1971 Paintings
Quiet Spaces
Modern home
Lerets magi
Objects of Desire
Kehribar Gözlü Tavsan - Sakli Miras
Lettres à Camondo
Gouthiere's Candelabras
Lettres à Camondo
20TH CENTURY CERAMICS
Edmund De Waal at Waddesdon
Elective Affinities
From zero
ha-Arnevet ʻim ʻene ha-ʻinbar
Die weiße Straße
Memoire Retrouvee
Edmund de Waal, Giorgio Morandi
Bai ci zhi lu
Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, mima and elsewhere
Dark Room
Edmund de Waal, Sally Mann - to Light, and Then Return
Ève Curie
Ève Curie (1904-2007)

journalist, pianist, music critic, biographer, diplomat, French resistance fighter, war correspondent

  • Collège Sévigné
Madame Curie
Madame Curie
Juli fu ren
Kyurī Fujin den
Juli fu ren zhuan
キュリー夫人傳
Journey among warriors
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers--Volume One
Journey among warriors.
Madame Curie
Eine Frau an der Front
Voyage parmi les guerriers
Voyage parmi les guerriers (Journey among warriors) ..
Madame Curie. Eine Biographie
They Speak For A Nation - Letters From France
145, Wall Street
Madame Currie
Vita di Madame Curie
Marii͡a︡ Ki͡u︡ri
Madame curie, a biography by Eve Curie
Madame Curie
Madame Curie
The price of freedom
Journey among warriors
Maria Curie
The price of freedom
Zhan di xing
Madame Curie
They speak for a nation
Émile Daurand Forgues
Émile Daurand Forgues (1813-1883)

journalist, translator, literary critic

Originaux et beaux esprits de l'Angleterre contemporaine
Histoire de Nelson
La Chine ouverte
Petites misères de la vie humaine
Petites misères de la vie humaine
Petites misères la vie humaine
Guerre de Russie en 1812
Yves Buin
Yves Buin (born 1938)

biographer, music critic, psychiatrist

Thelonious Monk
Barney Wilen
Paul Nizan
Céline
Que peut la littérature
Maël
L' oeuvre européenne de Reich
Jack Kerouac
Épistrophy
Mae̤l
Remarques d'un citoyen ordinaire
Psychiatries. L'utopie, le déclin
Les alephs
Le psychonaute
Essai d'harméneutique sexuelle
Jedda blue
Histoire de Smagg, récit
Cent dixième rue à l'est
Les alephs ; Diégopolis ; La retraite de Russie
Histoire de Smagg
110e rue à l'est; ou, La troisième ombre de Saül Chaïm
La terre d'Arnhem
Borggi
La nuit verticale
La psychiatrie mystifiée
L'asmara
Les Environs de minuit
Déraison, desir
Que peut la littérature?