A retelling of Chinese folk tales that span 4,000 years of that country's history.

The Flying Horses: Tales from China

Manton, Jo

Gittings, Robert

Collard, Derek

Teen & Young Adult

Henry Holt Co.

This biography of Thomas Hardy cuts through the speculations and half-truths surrouding Hardy, to provide an account of the important first 35 years of this major poet and writer.

Young Thomas Hardy

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin

The Older Hardy

Definitive guide to answer every question about popular music.

John Keats

Memoirs

Penguin Uk

Highly praised for John Keats (also available in Penguin Classic Biography), Robert Gittings repeats his success with this biography of the young Thomas Hardy - the first for a quarter of a century - cutting through the speculations and half-truths to give an outstanding and evocative account of the crucially important first thirty-five years of one of England's greatest novelists and poets.

Young Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classic Biography)

Gittings and Manton offer the first biography of Dorothy Wordsworth that treats her as a person in her own right, rather than as an adjunct to her brother or to Coleridge. Her devotion to family and friends is well known, but she was also a woman of problems and contradictions often connected with the changing social and political climate of her time. From the authors' examination of her uncertain health and the nature of her final breakdown, she emerges as more strange and wayward than convention has portrayed.

Dorothy Wordsworth

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

Critics and biographers have too often regarded Dorothy Wordsworth as a mere adjunct to her brother William, or to their mutual friend Samuel Coleridge. The importance of her famous Journals and other writings, it is usually assumed, lies in what they tell us of those poets and their work. This thoughtful, compelling biography is the first book to treat Dorothy Wordsworth as a person in her own right. Drawing on the Journals, her newly re-edited Letters, and later diary material not yet published, the authors give us a portait of a woman more strange yet touchingly human than any previous account has offered. Their interest in her does not stop at the "literary" but goes deeper to explore other facets of her character. They focus especially on her intense familial and domestic devotion, showing us how, from early childhood, she extended her warmth and selflessness to anyone who seemed to need her--a trait that tells us much about her particular intimate attachment to her brother. The book fully explores her relationship with William--their life in the Lake District, their travels together, her influence on how he came to view nature--and also examines the effects upon Dorothy of a changing social and political climate. It delves into her problems, weaknesses, and contradictions and illuminates the nature of her tragic nervous breakdown, which virtually incapacitated her for the last 25 years of her life. As a revealing picture of a woman of the early nineteenth century, Dorothy Wordsworth has an appeal extending well beyond just those readers interested in the Romantic Period. About the Author: Robert Gittings has written acclaimed biographies of Keats and Hardy. Jo Manton is the author of Elizabeth Barrett Anderson and Sister Dora. Husband and wife, they have previously collaborated on The Story of John Keats and The Second Mrs. Hardy.

Arts & Literature

This biography of Thomas Hardy cuts through the speculations and half-truths surrouding Hardy, to provide an account of the important first 35 years of this major poet and writer.

Little,Brown

Views Hardy's later years as an extension of his youthful struggle to disguise his peasant origins and the facts of his self-education and investigates the ironies that characterized his relationships with women

Thomas Hardy's Later Years

Olympic Marketing Corp

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The Flying Horses: Tales from China

Young Thomas Hardy

The Older Hardy

John Keats

Young Thomas Hardy

Young Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classic Biography)

Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

Young Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's Later Years