The unknown Orwell

Biographies & Memoirs

Štanský, Peter

Arts & Literature

Constable

Orwell — The Transformation

Alfred.A. Knopf

Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War

Journey to the Frontier (Biography & Memoirs)

Abrahams, William

Constable Co

England Since 1867: Continuity and Change (The Harbrace History of England, Pt. 4)

History

Harcourt College Pub.

Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of 19th-century British culture. Each was heralded a prophet in his own lifetime, and yet each was also regarded as misguided, and even mad, by his contemporaries. Their interests in art and culture led them to develop views on society and economics. Carlyle was a writer of extraordinary stature, radical in thought and style; Ruskin, who began his career as a critic of painting and architecture, developed his views to produce critiques of economics and social welfare; Arnold was a poet and literary critic, a definer of "culture" who later turned to social issues; and Morris, renowned for his work as artist and designer, championed a revolutionary socialism which would honour the civilizing effects of the arts. A.L. Le Quesne is also the author of "After Kilvert". George Landow has also written "The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin" and "Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought". Stephan Collini is also the author of "Liberalism and Sociology", "That Noble Science of Politics" (with Donald Winch and John Burrow) and "Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930". Peter Stansky is also the author of "Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts".

Victorian Thinkers: Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, Morris (Past Masters)

Literature & Fiction

Collini, Stefan

Landow, George P.

Le Quesne, A. L.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

William Morris (Past Masters)

Contents: Youth -- Oxford -- Red house and the firm -- Poetry and early politics -- The 1880s -- Last years.

Europe

First edition. Part of a series entitled "Past Masters." xii , 96 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

British & Irish

Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist (Spiritual Lives)

Leventhal, Fred

Leaders & Notable People

A dual biography of two English intellectuals who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War

Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War

Univ of Chicago Pr

Sir Philip Sassoon (1888?1939), a glamorous and well-known figure in Britain for the first four decades of the twentieth century, was the most eligible bachelor and the greatest host of his time. He attained prominence in the art world, high society, and politics. In contrast, his sister Sybil (1894?1989) lived a much more private life. Yet she was fascinating in her own right, marrying into the grandest level of the English aristocracy, restoring Houghton?formerly the house of Sir Robert Walpole?to magnificence, and serving in the high command of the Women’s Royal Naval Service during both world wars. In this generously illustrated book, distinguished historian Peter Stansky brings the Sassoons and their period into sharp focus. He also explores what their lives reveal about the nature of English life, particularly at the highest reaches, and its relation to wealth, power, politics, Jewishness, and art.

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil

Yale University Press

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