Stephen Spender: Selected Poems

UK 2009, 121 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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A new selection and retrospect of the career of Stephen Spender, as poet and translator, to mark the 2009 centenary of his birth. Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, born in London, was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He ... Weiterlesen

Peter Parker: Isherwood

UK 2005, 914 pp., brochure, € 25.99
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English novelist and diarist Isherwood is not heavily read these days, but his books remain in print, and the press will make an occasional reference to his most famous book, »Berlin Stories«, upon which »Cabaret« was based. One may hope that the appearance of this biography will spur more readers to turn to Isherwood's beautifully precise novels of English manners ... Weiterlesen