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Augustus John: A Biographyby Michael HolroydISBN 0099333015 (0-09-933301-5)
Softcover, Random House Uk Ltd
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Autobiography [of] Augustus Johnby Michael Holroyd , Augustus JohnISBN 0224010603 (0-224-01060-3)
Hardcover, Cape
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Basil Street Bluesby Michael HolroydISBN 0349111340 (0-349-11134-0)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Basil Street Blues'Book summary:Michael Holroyd - the most famous biographer in Britain - turns his attention upon himself and his own family in BASIL STREET BLUES (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was conceived in the 1930s.) Born into a family rich in eccentricity, Holroyd was largely brought up by his grandparents in Maidenhead because his exotic Swedish mother and reserved English father couldn't stand living together. (His grandparents' marriage provided no better model - his grandfather having had a four year affair with a woman he met at a bus stop before coming back to his grandmother). Towards the end of Holroyd's parents lives he persuaded them to write their own stories and using the results, plus his own memories and researches he has written this moving and self-revealing book. [via]
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Bernard Shawby Michael HolroydISBN 0099749017 (0-09-974901-7)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Best of Hugh Kingsmillby Hugh Kingsmill, Michael HolroydISBN 0140035931 (0-14-003593-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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A Cezanne in the Hedge: And Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsburyby Hugh Kingsmill, Michael HolroydISBN 0226470040 (0-226-47004-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Cezanne in the Hedge: And Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury'Book summary:The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. A Cézanne in the Hedge brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativityand eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are interspersed with appraisals of the work of Bloomsbury members such as Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf and of their contribution to twentieth-century British art and thought. The finale is a childhood spoof written by Virginia Woolf entitled "A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond."[via]More editions of A Cezanne in the Hedge: And Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury:
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A Dog's Life: A Novelby Michael HolroydISBN 0030728657 (0-03-072865-7)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Eminent Victoriansby Michael HolroydISBN 0140183507 (0-14-018350-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eminent Victorians'Book summary:The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead--who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style.
None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one." Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form." In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. --Jordana Moskowitz [via]
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The Genius of Shaw : A Symposiumby Michael HolroydISBN 0340241462 (0-340-24146-2)
Hardcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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God's Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age 1890-1940by Michael Holroyd , William Gerhardie, Robert Jacob Alexander SkidelskyISBN 0340263407 (0-340-26340-7)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Lytton Stracheyby Michael HolroydISBN 0030551919 (0-03-055191-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group:His Work, Their Influence: His Work, Their Influenceby Michael HolroydISBN 0140031995 (0-14-003199-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Mosaic: Portraits in Fragmentsby Michael HolroydISBN 0316725056 (0-316-72505-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mosaic: Portraits in Fragments'Book summary:This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.' In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal - his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. Mosaic, then, is Michael Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. There is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer Jacques Prevert; and a letter from Margaret Forster about the beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a decade-long affair. A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, Mosaic is both a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees, and a fascinating insight into the workings of genealogy. [via]
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The Shorter Stracheyby Michael HolroydISBN 0192122118 (0-19-212211-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shorter Strachey'Book summary:This is a selection of writings by Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), the distinguished essayist and biographer and prominent member of the Bloomsbury group. Biographical subjects include Edward Gibbon, Alexander Pope, Sarah Bernhardt, Dostoevsky, Boswell and Lady Hester Stanhope. Some essays are more personal - responses to World War I, childhood memories and an account of a Bloomsbury day out in the country with Lady Ottoline Morrell and Vanessa Bell. The writing is consistently perceptive and entertaining, demonstrating the author's piercing observation and wit. Lytton Strachey is author of "Eminent Victorians" and "Queen Victoria". [via]
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The Shorter Stracheyby Michael Holroyd , Paul Levy, Giles Lytton StracheyISBN 0192812858 (0-19-281285-8)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Strange Eventful History, a Ellen Terry and Henry Irvingby Michael HolroydISBN 0099497182 (0-09-949718-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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Unreceived Opinionsby Michael HolroydISBN 014004003X (0-14-004003-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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An Unsocial Socialistby Michael HolroydISBN 0140162178 (0-14-016217-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Works on Paper : The Craft of Biography and Autobiographyby Michael HolroydISBN 0316856789 (0-316-85678-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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