Reading this, I found it hard to believe that this came from the same mind that had created 'Frankenstein'. This was a story written to amuse a child and the introduction, taking up a great deal more space between the covers than the story itself, goes at length to provide the context for it, but I ...
I like reading biography. There's something fascinating about picking out the details of a person's life from letters and diaries and memoirs. This is the first one I've read for pleasure, as opposed to university study, and as biographies go it's a good one. It's fairly hefty, at 527 pages, but i...
As a devoted Jane Austen-fan, I am always on the lookout for new insights in her simple and short life. As this was praised as one of the best biographies ever written about her, I was intrigued. While it indeed was a very enjoyable and interesting biography, it tended to focus more on Austen's neig...
Oh! Now it all makes sense! Now I understand why so many of the characters in Dickens' novels seem so theatrically dramatic. Read Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin and you too can unlock such mysteries as they expertly unfold in this top-notch biography!After reading so many of his novels I ...
Currently available at BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017lt53#synopsisI would not want to read this book. I believe I will disagree with the author's views. Given particular events, she summarized what they meant and I did not agree.
A basically strong biography marred by the author's sometimes overreaching. Unfortunately, we have have little idea about much of Austen's life; this occasionally leads biographers to extrapolate based on little to no evidence. The most egregious example, in my opinion, was the dreadful Becoming Jan...
Book of the Weekblurberoonies - Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of Britain's great novelist paints a portrait of an extraordinarily complex man. As part of Dickens on the BBC Radio 4 broadcasts extracts from Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography of the novelist who called himself the "in...
I purchased and first read this book in Bath in 1999, after visiting Chawton (where Austen lived in the latter part of her life and wrote her last three novels) and Salisbury (where she died and was buried). After that albeit rather limited literary pilgrimage, it seemed appropriate to acquire and r...
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