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SIDETRACKS: EXPLORATIONS OF A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHER

by Richard Holmes

Published by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. 1st. 2000

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. A collection of 20 pieces showing how fluid, playful and unconstrained and many voices of biography can be. A collection held together by a subtle autobiographical thread. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. 420 pages.

Spine bumped. Light page browning else contents clean.. Dustwrapper is edge creased and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

ISBN: 0002555786
Stock no. 1330900

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Contents

  • PROLOGUE
  • I A Romantic Premonition
  • Introduction
  • Thomas Chatterton (1970)
  • II Lost in France
  • Introduction
  • Monsieur Nadar (1974)
  • Gautier in London (1975)
  • Poor Pierrot (1976)
  • Inside the Tower (1977)
  • III Five Gothic Shadows
  • Introduction
  • The Reverend Mr Barham (1978)
  • Maturin and Mr Melmoth (1981)
  • Mr James and Others (1974)
  • Jhn Stuart Mill (1979)
  • Lord Lisle and the Tudor Nixon Tapes (1982)
  • IV A Philosophical Love Story
  • Introduction
  • The Feminist and the Philosopher (1987)
  • V Shelley's Ghost
  • Introduction
  • Scrope's Last Throw (1977)
  • To the Tempest Given (1992)
  • VI Escapes to Paris
  • Introduction
  • Scott and Zelda: One Last Trip (1980)
  • A Summer with the novelist (1994)
  • Letters from Paris (1994)
  • Voltaire's Grin (1995)
  • VII Homage to the Godfather
  • Introduction
  • Boswell's Bicentenary (1991)
  • Boswell Among the Tulips (1992)
  • Dr Johnson's First Cat (1999)
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INDEX

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