Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life
by:
David Coomes (author)
David Coomes,Hardcover - 1st ed, English-language edition,Pub by Cook, David C.
David Coomes,Hardcover - 1st ed, English-language edition,Pub by Cook, David C.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780745919225 (0745919227)
Publish date: September 1st 1992
Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I'll keep this brief: My first foray into the Dorothy Sayers biography project was not a great one. Within only a few pages of the Introduction, the author got a major aspect about Sayers' most famous work wrong when he described a the character Harriet Vane as the lover of Lord Peter Wimsey, whic...
This is the third, last, and most recent of the three biographies of Dorothy Sayers I acquired to read in order to have a solid framework in which to enjoy perusal of her letters. First published in 1992, it's more concise and more sympathetic than Brabazon's opus (Coomes calls Brabazon "magisterial...