Shelley And His World

Author: Claire Tomalin

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  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780140171525
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : 0.13
  • : June 1992
  • : 194mm X 128mm X 14mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 16.37
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  • : Claire Tomalin
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : English
  • : 821.7
  • : 131
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  • : 16pp b&w illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes, index
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Barcode 9780140171525
9780140171525

Description

"Shelley and His World" was universally acclaimed on publication as an ideal introduction to the poet's life and work. This much-requested reissue is guaranteed to delight Claire Tomalin's loyal readership. 'A vivid, amusing yet heartbreaking picture of Shelley emerges: poetry, politics, travel, friendships, love-affairs, scandals, mysteries, children, visions - all gracefully combined' - "London Review of Books".

Author description

Claire Tomalin has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times. She is the author of six highly acclaimed biographies and has won the Whitbread Book Award (and First Book Award), the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography She lives in London with husband Michael Frayn.