Hilary Spurling, Author . Counterpoint $24 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58243-243-4
Sonia Brownell (1918–1980) married George Orwell in 1949 because he said it would help him recover his health. Unfortunately, the marriage proved no panacea for tuberculosis, and 14 weeks after the wedding, he died, leaving Sonia, a talented...
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Hilary Spurling, Author . Knopf $40 (544p) ISBN 978-0-679-43429-0
The first volume of Spurling's magisterial biography, The Unknown Matisse
, covered his evolution into a painter. This second volume opens with his adjusting to the status—albeit controversial—of master. At 40, Matisse found himself...
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Hilary Spurling, Author Simon & Schuster 27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4042-7
Weaving a colorful tapestry of Pearl Buck’s life (1892–1973) with strands of Chinese history and literature, Spurling, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize for Matisse the Master—vividly correlates Buck’s experiences of China’s turbulent...
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Hilary Spurling, Author Knopf Publishing Group $50 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-43428-3
Despite Matisse's prestige in the annals of 20th-century art, there has been no biography published for the general reader until this hefty first of two volumes. ""Unknown"" as much for that omission as for his family's ""invincible discretion,""...
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Hilary Spurling, Author Counterpoint LLC $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-019622-6
This small book--in essence, an extended essay--serves up with wit and a novelist's delight the story of a scandal that almost toppled France's Third Republic. A century ago, Th r se Humbert held a seemingly impregnable position in French society....
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Hilary Spurling, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-393-02938-3
In this fine biography Spurling is equally at home in the literary, social and psychological worlds of a talented novelist who died of cancer in 1978 after winning Britain's prestigious Booker literary award but several years before TV's The Jewel...
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Hilary Spurling. Knopf, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-525-52134-1
This comprehensive authorized biography from Spurling (Matisse: A Life) chronicles in meticulous detail the life and work of English novelist Anthony Powell (1905–2000), whose masterpiece is A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 12 volumes...
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L. Elinor Fettiplace, Author, Hilary Spurling, Author, Elinor Fettiplace, Author Viking Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81592-0
British theater critic and biographer Spurling offers contemporary readers a cookbook compiled in 1604 by Lady Elinor Fettiplace of Oxfordshire, England. The recipes, reproduced in ""fine, clear, cranky Shakespearean English,'' are easily understood.
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