Basil Street Blues

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321746
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Basil Street Blues written by Michael Holroyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Holroyd is a distinguished biographer, but was never interested in exploring his own family's history until his parents died in the 1980s. This encouraged him to find out more about his parents, their stories, and their origins.

Basil Street Blues and Mosaic

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407064185
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Basil Street Blues and Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As read on BBC Radio 4 Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for A Strange Eventful History and winner of the Lifetime Services to Biography Award. Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family's history until the death of his parents in the 1980s. Then, faced with a sudden vacuum, he felt a desire to fill it with the stories of their lives. Basil Street Blues, the first of his volumes of memoir, is part detective story, part family memoir and part an oblique voyage of self-discovery which is both startlingly comic and profoundly moving. In his follow-up volume, Mosaic, he delves deeper into his family history. Witty, touching and wry, Mosaic shows the strange interconnectedness of our lives, and how other people's stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences. These two volumes - published together for the first time here - form an extraordinary piece of writing, and an enthralling lesson in identity and perspective for both author and reader.

Biography: An Historiography

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429760833
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Biography: An Historiography written by Melanie Nolan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.

Basil Street Blues Book Club

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Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9780356216621
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Basil Street Blues Book Club written by Michael Holroyd and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393344304
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited written by Michael Holroyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As letters from readers started to pour in, the author discovered extraordinary narratives that his own memoir had only touched on. Mosaic is Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: the murder of the fearsome headmaster of his school; the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist Jacques Prévert; and a letter about the beauty of his mother that provides a clue to a decade-long affair. Funny, touching, and wry, Mosaic shows how other people's lives, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences.

Basil Street Blues: A Memoir

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393343138
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Basil Street Blues: A Memoir written by Michael Holroyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past—guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their lives—gradually yields clues to a constellation of startling events and eccentric characters: a slow decline from English nobility on one side, a dramatic Scandinavian ancestry on the other. Fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unconsummated longings, and the rumor of an Indian tea fortune permeate this wry, candid memoir, "part multiple biography, part autobiography, but principally an oblique investigation of the biographer's art" (New York Times Book Review). "[A] perfect example of a memoir that entrances me."—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe "[O]ne of the few [biographers] who can convey what makes ordinary as well as extraordinary mortals live in our minds."—Los Angeles Times

Mosaic

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Publisher : Isis
ISBN 13 : 9780753199763
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and published by Isis. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mosaic' is Michael Holroyd's second volume of family memoirs which relates to but is independent of 'Basil Street Blues'. The work begins with the author trying to make sense of his aunt's labyrinthian financial affairs, then moves onto Holroyd searching for a missing relative and uncovering his family tree.

In Collaboration with British Literary Biography

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319583832
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis In Collaboration with British Literary Biography by : Jane McVeigh

Download or read book In Collaboration with British Literary Biography written by Jane McVeigh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people described in these biographies, and more concerned with how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to help us come to a better understanding of our own.

Basil Street Blues: A Family Story

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784971413
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Basil Street Blues: A Family Story written by Michael Holroyd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Holroyd – the most famous biographer in Britain – turns his attention upon himself and his own family in Basil Street Blues (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was conceived in the 1930s). Born into a family rich in eccentricity, Holroyd was largely brought up by his grandparents in Maidenhead because his exotic Swedish mother and reserved English father couldn't stand living together. (His grandparents' marriage provided no better model – his grandfather having had a four-year affair with a woman he met at a bus stop before coming back to his grandmother). Towards the end of Holroyd's parents' lives he persuaded them to write their own stories and using the results, plus his own memories and researches he has written this moving and self-revealing book.

The Pattern in the Carpet

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547386095
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pattern in the Carpet by : Margaret Drabble

Download or read book The Pattern in the Carpet written by Margaret Drabble and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers an innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw-puzzle history, and the strange delights of puzzling, with sketches of her family members and her thoughts on the importance of childhood play, art, and writing.

A Strange Eventful History

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374270805
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book A Strange Eventful History written by Michael Holroyd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest literary biographers turns his keen observation and humane insight on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater: Ellen Terry, George Bernard Shaw, and Henry Irving.

A Book of Secrets

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429969210
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Book of Secrets written by Michael Holroyd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all. A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West—these women are always on the periphery of the respectable world. Also on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography. In A Book of Secrets, Holroyd gives voice to fragile human connections and the mystery of place.

Mosaic

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ISBN 13 : 9780349116211
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Mosaic written by Michael Holroyd and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.'In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal - his own family. But rather than the story being over, in fact it was just beginning. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon. Mosaic, then, is Michael Holroyd's piecing together of these remarkable stories: some of which are pleasant surprises, other more startling. There is the death of the fearsome headmaster at his school, who was murdered by one of the boys after he left: the discovery that his Swedish grandmother was the mistress of the French anarchist writer Jacques Prevert; and a letter from Margaret Forster about the beauty of his mother, that leads to his remarkable account of a decade-long affair.

London Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book London Magazine written by John Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The London Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408113953
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide written by Nick Rennison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves.