Thames & Hudson Literary Lives Series

Jane Austen
  • Paperback
No short biography could be better done – The Times Literary Supplement

Henry James
  • Paperback
A full and entertaining study – The Sunday Times

James Joyce
  • Paperback
An indispensible book to the Joycean – The Spectator

Shakespeare
  • Paperback
Avoids conventional veneration and turns the mighty name (and examination subject) into the human being – The Observer

Virginia Woolf
  • Paperback
An almost model short illustrated companion … Mr Lehmann’s book delighted me – Angus Wilson, The Observer

W. B. Yeats
  • Paperback
Witty and informative – The Irish Times