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    Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

    Michael Holroyd

    Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury.

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    Augustus John: The New Biography

    Michael Holroyd

    This updated biography of the British painter reveals the complete story of John and his circle. New material which includes letters from Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Shaw, Oskar Kokoschka, the Sitwells…

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    Works on Paper

    Michael Holroyd

    A collection of essays on the craft of biography and autobiography by the biographer of George Bernard Shaw. Opening with a startling attack on biography the book goes on to…

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    Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited

    Michael Holroyd

    A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees.

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    Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition

    Michael Holroyd

    We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers. -The New York Times Book Review

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    A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families

    Michael Holroyd

    Henry Irving - a merchant’s clerk who became the savior of British theater - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theater appearance as soon as she could walk, were…

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    A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

    Michael Holroyd

    Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris, from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita Sackville-West’s home at Knole, A Book of Secrets lucidly gives voice…

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    Facts and Fiction: A Book of Storytelling

    Michael Holroyd

    A captivating collection of pieces about the art of narration by Britain’s finest biographer, Michael Holroyd

    In Facts and Fiction, Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the art of…

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    A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families

    Michael Holroyd

    From perhaps our greatest living biographer, a portrait of a fascinating theater family, and of a turning point in popular entertainment in the Western world.

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    A Book of Secrets

    Michael Holroyd

    On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Holroyd’s new book are destined never…

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    Works On Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

    Michael Holroyd

    A selection of letters, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century by our biographer.

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    Basil Street Blues: A Memoir

    Michael Holroyd

    A wonderful offbeat memoir…. Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet. -Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review

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    Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited

    Michael Holroyd

    A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees.

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    Eminent Victorians

    Lytton Strachey

    Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale.

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    The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John

    Michael Holroyd,Rebecca John

    Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John’s first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century.

    Twelve days…

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    The Art of Dora Carrington

    Jane Hill

    Dora Carrington’s association with Lytton Strachey and his Bloomsbury friends has tended to overshadow her own contribution to modern British painting. This book aims to redress the balance by looking…

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    A Month in the Country

    J.L. Carr

    One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting…

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    Ancestors in the Attic: Including My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns and My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors

    Michael Holroyd

    A stunning boxed set, celebrating a unique family history

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Charles Holroyd

    The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Charles Holroyd

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Charles Holroyd

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Charles Holroyd

    With translations of the life of the master by his scholar, Ascanio Condivi, and three dialogues from the Portuguese by Francisco D'Ollanda. Ascanio Condivi, a pupil and friend of the…

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    The Du Mauriers

    Daphne Du Maurier

    A penetrating study of this famously artistic family by one of its most famous members.

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti; With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda

    Charles Holroyd

    Michael Angelo Buonarroti; With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda, has been considered important throughout…

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Ascanio Condivi, Charles Holroyd, Francisco De Hollanda

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Ascanio Condivi,Charles Holroyd,Francisco De Hollanda

    This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Ascanio Condivi, Charles Holroyd, Francisco De Hollanda

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    Michael Angelo Buonarroti; 1903

    Francisco De 1517-1584 Hollanda

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    Genomics

    Julian Parkhill, Sarah J Lindsay, Phil Jones, Lia Chappell, Jonathan Roberts, Nancy Holroyd, Michal Szpak, Francesca Gale

    A concise, stimulating introduction to genomics, which explores the technology involved in sequencing genomes, the implications of managing the huge data sets that are generated, and the diverse ways in…

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