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Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000)

poet, biographer

  • University of Oxford

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Die blaue Blume
Offshore
The Gate of Angels
The Bookshop
Human Voices
The Beginning of Spring
Blue Flower
The golden child
Charlotte Mew and her friends
Innocence
The Knox brothers
The means of escape
Edward Burne-Jones
Offshore
So I have thought of you
At Freddie's
The Gate of Angels
A House of Air
The afterlife
Matchbook Classics Box Set
Début de printemps
Untitled Novel
The Blue Flower; the Bookshop
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014)

autobiographer

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Confusion
Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicle, Vol. 2)
Confusion (Cazalet Chronicle, Vol 3)
Love all
The Light Years (The Cazalet Chronicle, Vol. 1)
The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle, Vol 1)
The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle)
The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle S.)
The Light Years
Confusion
Confusion (Cazalet Chronicle S.)
Confusion (Cazalet Chronicle)
Mr. Wrong
Odd Girl Out
Getting it right
Something in Disguise
Marking time
Falling
CASTING OFF (Cazalet Chronicle , Vol 4)
Falling
Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicle)
The long view
The sea change
Slipstream
Mr Wrong
The sea change
After Julius
The long view
Sir Arthur Somervell on music education
The sea change
Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicle)
Long View (Perennial Library)
The Lover's Companion
Casting off
Falling
The beautiful visit
Howard & Maschler on food
Mr. Wrong
Elizabeth Jane Howard Omnibus
After Julius
Los años ligeros
Love All
The Beautiful Visit
Something in disguise
Falling
Erntezeit
Confusión
Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicle 4)
Mr. Wrong (Superintendent Daiziel & Sergeant Pascoe Mysteries)
Elizabeth Jane Howard Double
Odd girl out
Getting it right
Getting It Right
Septemberhimmel
Falling (Superintendent Daiziel & Sergeant Pascoe Mysteries) (Superintendent Daiziel & Sergeant Pascoe Mysteries)
Sommerjahre
We are for the dark
Marking Time
Marking time
Confusion (The Cazalet Chronicle, Vol 3/Cassettes) (The Cazalet Chronicle, Vol 3/Cassettes)
The light years
Three Miles Up
Étés anglais
We Are for the Dark
Harry Thompson
Harry Thompson (1960-2005)

biographer, television producer

  • University of Oxford, Highgate School

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To the Edge of the World
This Thing of Darkness
Penguins Stopped Play
The man in the iron mask
Biography of Peter Cook
Peter Cook
Richard Ingrams
Durham villages
To The Edge of the World Volume III
To The Edge of the World Book Two
Tintin
To The Edge of the World Vol. I (To the Edge of the World)
"News Quiz" Book of the News
Tintin, Hergé and his creation
Fatties
Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse (1873-1935)

journalist, biographer, politician, painter, poet, historian

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Under fire
Under Fire
Under fire
Feu
The Inferno
Le feu
Le feu
Paroles d'un combattant
La lueur dans l'abîme
Meissonier
Under Fire
The Inferno
Light
Hell
The inferno
Clarté
Le Feu
Under Fire
Quelques coins du coeur
Bir Savascinin Konusmalari
Under Fire (The Story of a Squad)
Under Fire
Meissonier
Meissonier
Lettres à sa femme, 1914-1917
Das Feuer
Nous autres . .
Stalin
Le feu (journal d'une escouade)
Le couteau entre les dents
The Inferno/l'enfer
Meissonier
Le feu, journal d'une escouade suivi du "carnet de guerre"
Lettres de Henri Barbusse à sa femme
La lueur dans l'abime, ce que veut le Groupe Clarté
Light
L' enfer
Russie
L' enfer
Les bourreaux
Clarté
Jesus
Light/clarte
Do you know Thaelmann?
Under Fire/le Feu
Under Fire
Lettres de Henri Barbusse à sa femme, 1914-1917
Staline
L'enfer
UNDER FIRE; TRANS. BY ROBIN BUSS
Under Fire, Story of a Squad
Le couteau entre les dents
We others
Das Feuer
Zola ...
Palachi
Under Fire (The Best Sellers of 1918 Series)
The Inferno
Lettres de Henri Barbusse à sa femme
Di henḳer
Le feu journal d'une escouade
Pleureuses
Nous autres...
Under fire
Clarté
Ce qui fut sera
Chains
Fotia
We others
Les suppliants
Hell
Light
Zola
Les Judas de Jésus
Les enchai nements
Dos fayer
You are the pioneers
Le feu
Gehenem
Thus and thus
150 Millionen bauen eine neue Welt
Butoire
Ce qui fut sera
We others
Pleureuses
Yeyshu Hanoytsri
L' enfer
Trois films
Kraft
Le feu (journal d'une escouade)
Hommage à Henri Barbusse
Les suppliants .
Inferno
Yeshu ha-Nostri
Under fire
Les grands romans de la Guerre de 14-18
Di yu
Le feu journal d'une escouade
One looks at Russia
Hell
La lueur dans l'abîme
Cong yi ge ren kan yi xin ge shi jie
Guang ming
Thus and thus
Les Judas de Jésus
Cong yi ge ren kan yi ge xin shi jie
Trois films
Babisai duan pian zuo
Kurarute
Faits divers
Ḳlarḳeyṭ
Élévation
Het vuur
Il Coltello fra i Denti
Le feu
I saw it myself
Babisai xuan ji
Nous autres .
Bu neng ke fu de ren
Palachi
Nous autres ..
Die Henker
Stalin
Chains
Le couteau entre les dents
El fuego
Di Henḳer
Les enchaînements
Der Kampf der Sowjet-Union um den Frieden
Louise Hall Tharp
Louise Hall Tharp (1898-1992)

biographer

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Tory hole
Tory hole
The Peabody Sisters of Salem
Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era
Adventurous alliance
Louis Agassiz, adventurous scientist
The baroness and the general
Three saints and a sinner
Mrs. Jack
Until victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody
The Peabody sisters of Salem
The Appletons of Beacon Hill
Until victory
Lords and gentlemen
The Peabody sisters of Salem
The Peabody sisters of Salem
Tory hole
Champlain
A sounding trumpet
Three saints and a sinner
Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era
The Peabody Sister of Salem
The Peabody sisters of Salem
Peabody Sisters of Salem, The
The Peabody Sisters of Salem by Louise Hall Tharp (1988-10-03)
Mrs. Jack
Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era
Down to the sea
Three Saints and a Sinner
The Peabody Sisters of Salem
The baroness and the general
Adventurous alliance
Until victory
Company of adventurers;
The Peabody Sisters of Salem
Tory hole
Company of adventurers
Louis Agassiz, adventurous scientist
The Peabody Sisters of Salem (Cloth slipcase)
Champlain, northwest voyager
Champlain, North-west voyager
Sixpence for luck
Adventures alliance
Stuart Cloete
Stuart Cloete (1897-1976)

essayist, autobiographer, biographer

  • Royal Military College, Sandhurst

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Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Spring 1953 Selections
How young they die
Rags of glory
The fiercest heart
Congo Song
Canary pie
The fiercest heart
Yesterday Is Dead
Gazella
The company with the heart of gold, and other stories
More nights of Jean Macaque
Gazella
The African giant
Three white swans, and other stories
The turning wheels
A Victorian son
Against these three
The African giant
The hill of doves
The Honey Bird
The gambler: an autobiography volume 2, 1920-1939
Storm over Africa
Turning wheels
A Victorian son: an autobiography, 1897-1922
Rags of glory
The third way
Mamba
South Africa
Watch for the dawn
South Africa; key to a continent
The mask
The Curve and the Tusk
The company with the heart of gold, and other stories
Three white swans
West with the sun
Canary pie
How young they died
The Curve And The Tusk
The hill of doves
African portraits
The honey bird, and other African stories
The silver trumpet, and other African stories
Gazella
More nights of Jean Macaque
Watch for the dawn
Three White Swans
The writing on the wall
How young they died
Christmas in Matabeleland
The curve and the tusk
Congo song
Three white swans
The soldiers' peaches & other African stories
CHETOKO - And Other African Stories
Ofanayim ʻale derekh
The thousand and one nights of Jean Macaque
The gambler
West with the sun
The honey bird, and other African stories
The mask
One thousand and one nights with Jean Macaque
The silver trumpet, and other African stories
South Africa
Thea bductors
The abductors
Land of the Eagle and Other African Stories
The soldiers' peaches, and other African stories
The abductors
Vierivat vankkurit
The looking glass, and other African stories
The third way
The young men and the old
Rags of glory
The abductors
The honey bird
The writing on the wall and other African stories
Christmas in Matabeland
Mamba
Our own stories
Dmitry Bykov
Dmitry Bykov (born 1967)

journalist, poet, literary critic, biographer, film critic, public figure, pedagogue, teacher, columnist, mind gamer, opinion journalist

  • MSU Faculty of Journalism

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Opravdanie
Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak
Spisannye
Blud truda
Iiun
Opravdanie
V mire zhivotikov
ZhD
Kak Putin stal prezidentom SShA
Signaly
Dushi vysokai︠a︡ svoboda
V mire zhivotikov
Zhivoĭ
ZhD
Kalendarʹ
Vmesto zhizni
Poslednee vremi︠a︡
Dumanie mira
Byl li Gorʹkiĭ
Prizyvnik
Ot︠s︡rochka
Na pustom meste
Boris Pasternak
Vremi︠a︡ potri︠a︡seniĭ
Vmesto zhizni
Trinadt︠s︡atyĭ apostol
Poslanie k ~iunoshe
Otchet
Sovetska︠i︡a literatura
Muzhskoĭ vagon
Boris Pasternak
Pisʹma schastʹi︠a︡
Odin
Boris Pasternak "Russian Language Import"
Bulat Okudzhava
Novye pisʹma schastʹi︠a︡
Kvartal
Orfografii͡a︡
Ostromov, ili Uchenik charodei︠a︡
Khroniki blizhaĭsheĭ voĭny
Bolʹshie pozhary
IKS
Kalendar-2. Sporyi o besspornom
Zverʹki i zver︠i︡ushi
Grazhdanin poėt
Proshchaĭ, kukushka
Prizyvnik
Na pustom meste
Novye i noveĭshie pisʹma schastʹi︠a︡
Sovetskie pisateli
Otchet
Detskiĭ mir
Peterburgskai︠a︡ poėticheskai︠a︡ format︠s︡ii︠a︡
Sovetskai͡a literatura
Mai͡akovskiĭ
Ostromov, ili Uchenik charodei︠a︡
RĖP
Taĭnyĭ russkiĭ kalendarʹ
50
Otsrochka
Proshchaĭ, kukushka
Poslednee vremi︠a︡
Living souls
Bulat Okudzhava
Marusi︠a︡ otravilasʹ
Gorʹkiĭ
Vneklassnoe chtenie
Shkola zhizni
Gorʹkiĭ
Na samom dele
Prishedshiĭ sam
I vse-vse-vse
Blazhenstvo
The predictability of the past
Sovetskai︠a︡ literatura
Pasternak
Sindrom Chernysha
Ostromov, ili Uchenik charode︠i︡a
I︠A︡sno
Medvedʹ
Boris Pasternak
Dumanie mira
Ėvakuator
Na pustom meste
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman (1865-1959)

illustrator, playwright, poet, biographer, autobiographer

  • Royal College of Art, Bromsgrove School

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Life of H. R. H. the duke of Flamborough
King John of Jingalo (The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties)
Favourite sea stories from Seaside Al
Bethlehem
Rocking-horse land
Angels & ministers
The golden sovereign
The rat-catcher's daughter
Little plays of St. Francis
Pains and penalties
The unexpected years
The field of clover
Little plays of Saint Francis
Dethronements
Bethlehem: A Nativity Play
Followers of St. Francis
Little Plays of St. Francis: A Dramatic Cycle from the Life and Legend of St ..
Prunella
The Lord of the Harvest: A Morality in One Act
Selected poems
Cotton-wooleena
The Chinese lantern
Angels & Ministers: Four Plays of Victorian Shade & Character
The lord of the harvest
The house of joy
My brother, A.E. Housman
Bethlehem
Turn again tales
Echo de Paris
Angels and ministers and other Victorian plays
The return of Alcestis
Arabian nights
A doorway in fairyland
Angels & ministers
Ploughshare and pruning-hook
Victoria Regina
The wheel
Moonshine & clover
Angels And Ministers
An Englishwoman's love-letters
Palace plays
Happy and glorious
The comments of Juniper
A doorway in fairyland
Palestine plays
The death of Socrates
Sabrina Warham
Gracious Majesty
Samuel, the king-maker
Odd pairs
The heart of peace
Four plays of St. Clare
Mendicant rhymes
The venture
The queen's progress
A.E.H
Strange ends and discoveries
The little land
Prunella
The snow man
Selected poems
Under fire
St. Francis poverello
The kind and the foolish
The unexpected years
Alfred Edward Housman's "De amicitia"
A farm in fairyland
Victoria and Albert
The preparation of peace
Gods and their makers
Spikenard
All-fellows
False premises
Gesprache mit Oscar Wilde
Trimblerigg; A Book Of Revelation
Modern religious belief
Possession, a peep-show in paradise
The collected poems of Laurence Housman
A modern Antæus
Old Testament plays
King John of Jingalo
The Sheepfold
Bird in hand
Palace scenes
Nazareth
The new child's guide to knowledge
Little plays of Saint Francis, volume III
War letters of fallen Englishmen
Green arras
The Field of Clover
Ways and means
Possession
Rue
Sex-war and woman's suffrage
The death of Socrates: a dramatic scene, founded upon two of Plato's Dialogues, the 'Crito' and the 'Phaedo'
Articles of faith in the freedom of women
St Francis Poverello
Autarchy, internationalism and common sense
The rose and the thorn
The death of Orpheus
The 'Little plays' handbook
Angels and Ministers, and Other Plays
Gespräche mit Oscar Wilde
Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch garden
Trimblerigg
Victoria Regina, a dramatic biography
Besançon's annual register of the state of Mississippi, for the year 1838
The heart of peace, and other poems
Twenty selected little plays of Saint Francis
Uncle Tom Pudd
The kind and the foolish
Histories Book II
Ironical tales
The Queen! God bless her!
Young Queen Victoria / Die junge Königin Victoria
The six o'clock call
Little plays of St. Francis
The royal runaway
A modern Antaeus
Angels And Ministers And Other Victorian Plays
smauel the King-maker
Echo De Paris
The long journey
Spikenard
The open door
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
The religious advance toward rationalism
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
Arabian nights
Victoria Regina
Cynthia
The religious advance toward rationalism: Delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1, on September 25, 1929
War letters of fallen Englishmen
A substitute for capital punishment
Cotton-Woolleens
All-fellows and The cloak of friendship
Palace scenes: more plays of Queen Victoria
Back words and fore words
Angels & Ministers
An Englishwoman's Love Letters
The love concealed
Dethronements
Terrorism by ordinance
Don't tell
Little plays of St. Francis
The blue moon
Stories from the Arabian nights
Victoria Regina
John of Jingalo
The lord of the harvest
Cornered poets
The Story of the seven young goslings
The cloak of friendship
Arthur Boyd Houghton
Cotton-Woolleena
Stories from the Arabian nights
Brother sun
The Field of Clover
What-o'clock tales
Bethlehem, a nativity play, The pageant of our lady, & other poems
A book of tales
The life of H. R. H. the Duke of Flamborough
The bed-chamber plot
Sister Gold
National art training
Pains and penalties
A Modern Antaeus
The house of bondage
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
Christianity
Gods and their makers and other stories
The Cloak Of Friendship
The family honour
Ye fearful saints! Plays of creed, custom, and credulity
Lysistrata
Enter prince
The royal runaway and Jingalo in revolution (a sequel to King John of Jingalo)
Bethlehem; A Nativity Play - The Pageant Of Our Lady & Other Poems
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Ashes to ashes
Hop o'-me-heart
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
The collected poems of Laurence Housman
Brother sin
Great possessions
A thing to be explained
Angels and ministers and other Victorian plays
My brother, A.E. Hosman
Ye fearful saints!
Blind love
Selected Poems
The Blue Moon
As good as gold
What can we believe?
What next?
A likely story
The Chinese Lantern a Play by Laurence Housman
'A great relief'
A mint o' money
Little plays of Saint Francis
Wish to goodness!
The new hangman
The makings of Matilda
20 selected little plays of Saint Francis
A clean sweep
The Chinese lantern
Prunella
Bird in hand
The death of Orpheus
The comments of Juniper
What is "womanly"?
Busybody land
Followers of St. Francis
Victoria Regina
Little plays of Saint Francis, volume III
Be law-abiding
The golden Sovereign
Bethlehem
The 'Little plays' handbook
Stories from the Arabian nights
Contes des Mille et une nuits
Stories from the Arabian nights
A gander and his geese ; and The promise of beauty
The Chinese lantern
Little-and-Good and The giant and the pigmy
The new child's guide to knowledge
Trimblerigg
The census
Stories from the Arabian nights
Spikenard
My brother, A.E. Housman
My Brother, A. E. Housman
Articles of faith in the freedom of women
As good as gold
An English woman's love letters
Little plays of St. Francis
The death of Socrates: a dramatic scene, founded upon two of Plato's Dialogues, the 'Crito' and the 'Phaedo'
Woman's cause
The cloak of friendship
The Chinese lantern
Angels and ministers and other Victorian plays
Puss in boots
Moonlight and Fairyland
Alice in Ganderland
Cynthia
St. Martin's pageant
The relation of fellow-feeling to sex
The new humanism
The long journey
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
War letters of fallen Englishmen
The New Hangman
Wish to goodness!
The royal runaway and Jingalo in revolution
Victoria and Albert
Back words and fore words
Victoria and Albert
Moonlight and fairyland
Turn again tales
Gods and their makers and other stories
An Englishwoman's love-letters
Rue
Articles of faith in the freedom of women
A book of tales
Strange ends and discoveries
The Chinese lantern
The open door
A thing to be explained
Little plays of St. Francis
The blue moon
Of Aucassin and Nicolette
Articles of faith in the freedom of women
Lysistrata
Prunella; or, Love in a Dutch garden
The unexpected years
Stories from the Arabian nights
Laurence Housman papers
Hymn
Etheldrinda's fairy
20 selected little plays of St. Francis
Cotton-Woolleena
Possession
Little plays of St. Francis
The seven young goslings
The Bawling brotherhood
Sabrina Warham
Prunella
The wheel
A clean sweep
Little plays of Saint Francis
John of Jingalo
The wheel
The boiled owl and The ass's mouth
No Title Exists
A modern Antaeus
The religious advance toward rationalism
Victoria Regina