Footsteps - Softcover

Holmes, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007204531 ISBN 13: 9780007204533

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2005

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Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.

In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary exploration ever published.

Sleeping rough, he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the Parisian riots of the 1960s, he dives back in time to the terrors of Wordsworth and of Mary Wollstonecraft marooned in Revolutionary Paris and then into the strange tortured worlds of Gérard de Nerval. Wandering through Italy, he stalks Shelley and his band of Romantic idealists to Casa Magni on the Gulf of Spezia.

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Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge.

In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as ‘surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014.

He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

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Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0007204531
• ISBN 13: 9780007204533
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Amacom; https://www.harpercollins.co.jp/; ; Via Energy Park, 20; Vimercate; MI; 20871; Italien