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  • Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

    Katherine Mansfield by Tomalin, Claire;

    A Secret Life

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
    • Date of Publication 21 June 2012
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9780241963302
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages320 pages
    • Size 198x130x21 mm
    • Weight 227 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 8pp inset
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    Long description:

    Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin

    'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' Alison Lurie

    Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four she became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. Claire Tomalin's biography brings us nearer than we have ever been to this courageous, greatly gifted, haunted and haunting writer.

    'Generous, dispassionate, even-handed, setting out probably as plainly as anyone ever will Katherine's high hopes, the odds she faced and the impossible obstacles that ditched her in the end' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

    'Provides the finest and most subtly shaded portrait so far' John Gross, New York Times

    From the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this virtuoso biography is invaluable reading for lovers of Katherine Mansfield everywhere.

    Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

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