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Shelley: The Pursuit
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Shelley: The Pursuit

BookPaperback
Ranking79187inSprachen
CHF61.90

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This winner of the Somerset Maugham Award dispenses with the established picture of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a blandly ethereal character by projecting a startling image of the poet as a radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant poetic innovator.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-59017-037-3
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date15/05/2003
SeriesNew York Review Books Classics
Pages880 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 231 mm, Thickness 51 mm
Weight1157 g
Article no.1781419
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.9151797
Product groupSprachen
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Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.