Alain-Fournier, trans. from the French by Frank Daivson. Oxford Univ., $19.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-19-967868-6
Touching and wonderfully detailed, this portrait of French life in the 1890s will make readers feel not only that they know the time and place but that they are actually there. François Seurel, a schoolmaster’s son, is 15 and lives in a small...
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Hermione Lee, Author . Princeton Univ. $19.95 (141p) ISBN 978-0-691-12032-4
The author of an important biography of Virginia Woolf and one of Willa Cather, Lee is well versed in the challenges the genre poses. Where should biographers start, and how do they know where to stop? Where do the facts of someone's life end...
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Hermione Lee, Author . Knopf $35 (869p) ISBN 978-0-375-40004-9
One might think that R.W.B. Lewis's excellent 1975 biography had precluded the need for another book about Edith Wharton. Not so. Reading Lee's superb new biography is akin to comparing a fine watercolor sketch to a vivid masterpiece. Access
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Hermione Lee, Author Alfred A. Knopf $39.95 (893p) ISBN 978-0-679-44707-8
Balance and perspective characterize this extensive biography of one of the world's most chronicled writers. Lee (biographer of Willa Cather) is a British academic who, unlike so many writers on Woolf (1882-1941) and friends, wasn't a member of the...
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Hermione Lee. Knopf, $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-385-35234-5
Booker Prize–winning novelist Fitzgerald (who died in 2000) once observed, “I am drawn to people who seem to have been born defeated or, even, profoundly lost.” In this illuminating biography, critic and scholar Lee (The Novels of Virginia Woolf)...
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Hermione Lee, Author, Kate Reading, Read by ., read by Kate Reading Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5409-4
Kate Reading’s dulcet tones, buttery and tuneful, make her sound more like a Wharton character than an audiobook reader. As it turns out, this is a very good thing, for Reading (named a “Voice of the Century” by AudioFile
magazine)
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Hermione Lee. Knopf, $35 (896p) ISBN 978-0-451-49322-4
Lee (Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life) tackles the life and works of a playwright who started “without a cause, except the cause of good language and good art” in this exhaustive biography of Tom Stoppard. To account for the prolific artist who “suddenly
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