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Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Peerless literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This en ...Show more
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Life by Hilary Spurling
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times 'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Pros ...Show more
Burying The Bones : Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
This is a thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist. Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home ...Show more
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
$24.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of ba ...Show more
Invitation to the Dance - A handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
$40.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
"A unique reference book and an invaluable companion for even the most informed Anthony Powell fan. A Dance to the Music of Time is a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. As the reader cavorts through the 12-volume novel alongside the narrator Nicholas Jenkins, it soon becomes apparent that h ...Show more
Matisse : The Life by Hilary Spurling
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
HENRI MATISSE, one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century painting, was an intensely private person.It was not until half a century after his death that Hilary Spurling's two-part biography cleared away the fog of inaccurate guesswork and gossip that obscured both the man and at times his work. ...Show more
Matisse the Master (Volume 2) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art
The Life of Henri Matisse (Volume 2: 1909-1954) In this astounding book (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2005) Hilary Spurling's fascinating exploration of Matisse's world uncovers the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for ...Show more
The Unknown Matisse (Volume 1) by Hilary Spurling
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter famously did for Proust in the 1950s. Besides being a first-rate scholar, she is an artist in na ...Show more
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