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Richard Ellmann
Richard Ellmann (1918-1987)

literary critic, biographer, journalist, literary scholar

  • Yale University, University of Dublin

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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

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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
Alain Vircondelet
Alain Vircondelet (born 1947)

biographer, literary critic

  • University of Paris, Lycée Bugeaud

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Duras
Mortel amiante
Jean-Paul II
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Marguerite Duras
L'Enfance de Jean-Paul II
Mémoires de Balthus
Séraphine de Senlis
Alger, Alger
Charles de Foucauld
Pour Duras
Les couples mythiques de l'art
Antoine et Consuelo de Saint Exupéry, un amour de légende
La maison devant le monde
Joris-Karl Huysmans
La traversée
Albert Camus, fils d'Alger
Sagan
La Princesse de Lamballe
Jean Paul II, la biographie
L'art jusqu'à la folie
Une passion à Venise
Le Paris de Sagan
Marguerite Duras, une autre enfance
Sur les pas de Marguerite Duras
C'étaient Antoine et Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Auprès de Balthus
Rencontrer Marguerite Duras
Jésus
La véritable histoire du Petit prince
Séraphine
Saint Jean-Paul II
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Les trésors du Petit Prince
Legendarnai︠a︡ li︠u︡bovʹ
Dans les pas de Saint-Exupéry
Albert Camus et la guerre d'Algérie
Saint Exupéry dans la guerre
Un été à Long Island
Le Paris de Picasso
Renaissance de Saint Exupéry
L'exil est vaste mais c'est l'été
Albert Camus, fils d'Alger
Les Chats de Balthus
Venice
Le roman de Jacqueline et Blaise Pascal
Journal de résistance d'un chrétien dans le monde
Les derniers jours de Casanova
Le monde merveilleux des images pieuses
Là-bas
Bernadette, celle qui a vu
Albert Camus
Nulle part qu'à Venise
JE VOUS SALUE MARIE
La poésie fantastique française
Marguerite Duras
Maman la Blanche
Alger, l'amour
Le grand guide de Venise - Sur les pas de Canaletto et des maitres venitiens
Venise, ou, l'innocence retrouvée
La-bas
Extase de Tolède
La terreur des chiens
John Paul II
La nuit de Mayerling
Juan Pablo II/ John Paul II
Guernica 1937
La vie la vie
Naissances d'un père
Tant que le jour te portera
Marie Noël
Le petit frère de la nuit
Balthus and Cats
La Cathédrale
Maman la Blanche
Balthus'un Anilari
Monde Merveilleux Des Images Pieuses
Éloge des herbes quotidiennes
Alger Alger
Alger, ombres et lumières
Amore veneziano
Duras, Dieu et l'écrit
Huysmans, entre grâce et péché
Cet été-là, de braise et de cendres
Dans les pas de Toulouse-Lautrec
Devenir Venise
Die Rose des kleinen Prinzen. Erinnerungen an eine unsterbliche Liebe.
Duras, la traversée d'un siècle
Die Rose des kleinen Prinzen. Erinnerungen an eine unsterbliche Liebe.
Les enclos bretons
De l'or dans la nuit de Vienne selon Klimt
Poéms pour détruire
La tisserande du Roi-Soleil
Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster (1938-2016)

journalist, literary critic, biographer, historian

  • University of Oxford

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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
George Woodcock
George Woodcock (1912-1995)

literary critic, poet, historian, biographer, anarchist, peace activist

  • Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The anarchist prince
Mohandas Gandhi
William Godwin
Peter Kropotkin
Thomas Merton, monk and poet
Walking through the valley
Dawn and the darkest hour
The paradox of Oscar Wilde
Beyond the blue mountains
Gabriel Dumont
Aphra Behn
Dawn and the darkest hour
Letter to the past
Faces from history
Oscar Wilde
Herbert Read
The Canadians
Wyndham Lewis in Canada
Gabriel Dumont (The Canadians)
Amor De Cosmos
Ivan Eyre
Malcolm Lowry
100 great Canadians
Ghandi
Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work
The Canadians
Thomas Merton, monk and poet
Anarchism
The crystal spirit
The Doukhobors
A Social History of Canada
Colony and confederation
Introducing Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
Power to us all
The Marvellous Century
Traditionen der Freiheit
Who killed the British Empire?
The writer and politics
Peoples of the Coast
Two plays
Poets and critics
Introducing Sinclair Ross's As for me and my house
The monk and his message
The Egoist
The century thatmade us
Odysseus ever returning
Civil disobedience
Canada and the Canadians
Northern spring
The Anarchist Reader
The mountain road
Railways and society
Canadian poets, 1960-1973
Into Tibet
The walls of India
British Columbia
South Sea journey
Caves in the desert
The British in the Far East
Anarchism and Anarchists
British poetry today
Faces of India
George Woodcock's introduction to Canadian fiction
Mordecai Richler
Incas and other men
To the city of the dead
Kerala
Notes on visitations
Letter from the Khyber Pass, and other travel writing
Patrick Lane and His Works
Matt Cohen
Anarchy or chaos
Henry Walter Bates
Confederation betrayed
Moral predicament
Peoples of the coast
The benefactor
A George Woodcock reader
Taking it to the letter
Imagine the South
George Woodcock's introduction to Canadian poetry
The world of Canadian writing
Picture History of British Columbia
Orwell's message
A hundred years of revolution, 1848 and after
20th-century Fiction (Great Writers Library)
Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
The spirit wrestlers
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist of the Amazons
The centre cannot hold
Selected poems
The rejection of politics
Gabriel Dumont and the northwest rebellion
Neo-anarchism in the 1970s
The incomparable Aphra
Strange bedfellows
The meeting of time and space
Ravens and prophets
The Dry wells of India
Variations on the human theme
The sixties; writers and writing of the decade
British Columbia
No nation is a good nation
Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana & other poems
The Great Canadian Anecdote Contest
Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
The kestrel, and other poems of past and present
A choice of critics
Introducing Margaret Laurence's The stone angel
Powers of observation
The Hudson's Bay Company
El príncipe anarquista
New life to the land
The Orwell Tapes
Matt Cohen and his works
Patrick Lane and his works
Faces Form History
Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin)
Introducing Mordecai Richler's
Anima
Hugh MacLennan
Charles Heavysege and His Works
Into Tibet: the early British explorers
Skinned Activists Condemn the Horrors of the Fur Trade
Six poems
The island of demons
Introducing Hugh Maclennan's Barometer Rising
Collected poems
Selected poems of George Woodcock
The basis of communal living
A letter from George Woodcock
The Greeks in India
Malcolm Lowry
Above and below the 49th parallel
New Life to the Land
Asia, gods and cities
Thomas Merton
Alain-Fournier and the lost land
The University of British Columbia
Homes or hovels
Introducing Mordecai Richler's The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Introducing Margaret Laurence's the Stone Angel
20th Century Fiction (St.James Reference Guide to English Literature)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a Biography
The Cherry Tree on Cherry Street
The sometime sahibs
The incomparable Aphra
New life to the land
The Canadian novel in the twentieth century
Dry Wells of India
New life to the land
Anima: Or, Swann grown old
Railways and society
A choice of critics
The sixties ; writers and writing of the decade. A symposium to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Canadian literature
The Canadian Metis
Northern spring
The sixties
Selected poems of George Woodcock
Gabriel Dumont (Canadians)
Twentieth Century Fiction (Great Writers Library)
Northern spring
Introducing Hugh MacLennan's Barometer rising
Now
Snowscapes
Henry Walter Bates, naturalist of the Amazons
Incas and other men
Malcolm Lowry: the man and his work
A Place to stand on
British Columbia
20th century fiction
The Canadian novel in the twentieth century
The world of Canadian writing
Selected poems of George Woodcock
Is Big Brother Still Watching
The white island
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

poet, painter, literary critic, biographer

  • University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool

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Eminent Victorians
Elizabeth and Essex
Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey by himself
The shorter Strachey
Eminent Victorians
Biographical essays
Books and Characters
Florence Nightingale
Portraits in miniature, and other essays
Portraits in miniature
Characters and commentaries
Queen Victoria
Portraits in miniature
Cornerstones
Queen Victoria
The Poetry of Cats
The letters of Lytton Strachey
Landmarks in French literature
Spectatorial essays
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda
The really interesting question, and other papers
Pope
Reina Victoria
No Royalty A/C Biographical Essays
Französische Paradiese
The really interesting question
Ely
Five Victorians
Geist und Abenteuer
100 Best Nonfiction
A son of heaven
Literary essays
The end of General Gordon
La muerte del general Gordon
Florence Nightingale
Eminent Victorians/Cassettes
Store Viktorianere
Landmarks in French Literature
La reina Victoria
Vals con Bashir
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda: an entertainment
Queen Victoria
Strachey Queen Victoria
Das Leben, ein Irrtum. Acht Exzentriker
The Président de Brosses
Cinq excentriques anglais
No Royalty A/C Literary Essays (Strachey)
Eminent Victorians
Landmarks in French Literature
Elizabeth and Essex
landmarks in French literature
Landmarks in French Literature
Elisabeth und Essex
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
Landmarks in French literature
Landmarks in French Literature
Isabel y Essex
Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians Illustrated
Lytton Strachey by Himself
The Biography of Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth and Essex
Elizabeth and Essex, a tragic history
Landmarks in French literature
Lytton Strachey on Queen Victoria
Pope
Victori
Elizabeth and Essex
Literary Essays
LETTERS OF LYTTON STRACHEY; ED. BY PAUL LEVY
QUEEN VICTORIA-Royalty Biographies (Annotated)
Pope
QUEEN VICTORIA (Annotated)
Guide to Hospitals and Nursing - a Collection of Writings and Excerpts
Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria : (Annotated Edition)
Elizabeth and Essex, a tragic history
Landmarks in French literature
Émile Daurand Forgues
Émile Daurand Forgues (1813-1883)

journalist, translator, literary critic

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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
Josep Yxart
Josep Yxart (1852-1895)

art critic, essayist, translator, literary critic

  • University of Barcelona

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La Descoberta de la gran ciutat, París, 1878
Escrits autobiogràfics, 1872-1889
El arte escénico en España
Angel Guimerà
Crítica dispersa, 1883-1893
El año pasado[1885-1889]
Angel Guimerà
Entorn de la literatura catalana de la restauració
El arte escénico en España
Àngel Guimerà
Novel·listes i narradors
El arte escénico en España ..
El año pasado, 1886-1888
Obra completa de Josep Yxart
El arte escenico en España
Tarragona
El arte escenico en España