Richard Holmes, Author Pantheon Books $18 (432p) ISBN 978-0-375-70540-3
""O God save me--from myself,"" wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1813, lying penniless in a sweat-soaked bed in a Bath inn, poisoned by opium, his literary career and personal life in shambles. It was one of the many dark nights of the soul that...
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Richard Holmes, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-14-012440-8
This 1989 winner of England's Whitbread Prize, the first of two volumes, discusses with admiration the Romantic man of letters's impulsive personality, his exotic poetry and critical essays,pk and his relationships with and influences on prominent...
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Richard Holmes, Author Viking Books $22.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-80444-3
Recent winner of England's Whitbread Prize, this first of a two-volume study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a work of narrative skill, outstanding scholarship and original interpretation. Unlike previous biographers who tended to dislike or mistrust...
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Richard Holmes, Author Pantheon Books $32 (640p) ISBN 978-0-679-43847-2
""O God save me--from myself,"" wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1813, lying penniless in a sweat-soaked bed in a Bath inn, poisoned by opium, his literary career and personal life in shambles. It was one of the many dark nights of the soul that...
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Richard Holmes, Author TV Books $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-57500-147-0
This book invites dismissal as a nonbook, since it is the accompanying volume to a television documentary on WWI for the History Channel, hosted by the author. It focuses only on the Western front, although several of the war's other theatersDRussia,
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Richard Holmes, Author, Dan Frank, Editor Pantheon Books $23 (260p) ISBN 978-0-679-43585-3
In this outstanding, eminently readable work of literary scholarship, Holmes (Coleridge: A Life) explores the enigmatic friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet Richard Savage, whom Johnson memorialized in Lives of the Poets. Synthesizing a...
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Richard Holmes, Author, Dan Frank, Editor Pantheon Books $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-679-43846-5
These ""b-sides and rarities"" (stories that arrested Holmes's attention while he was investigating his principal subjects) of an eminent literary biographer, most recognized for his two-volume life of Coleridge, present an atypical mixture of...
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John Keegan, Author, Richard Holmes, Author, John Kegan, Author Viking Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80969-1
Conceived as a companion to the BBC television series of the same name, Soldiers stands on its own as an illuminating and thought-provoking study of war as soldiers have experienced it through history. The authors organize their subject into the...
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Richard Holmes, Author . Pantheon $40 (552p) ISBN 978-0-375-42222-5
The Romantic imagination was inspired, not alienated, by scientific advances, argues this captivating history. Holmes, author of a much-admired biography of Coleridge, focuses on prominent British scientists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries,
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Richard Holmes, Author . Basic $27.50 (376p) ISBN 978-0-465-03082-8
A 2002 BBC poll established Churchill as history's greatest Briton. Leading British military historian Holmes offers not a biography but an interpretation of the man, one that highlights the ironic fact that the social and political order...
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Richard Holmes. Pantheon, $35 (416p) ISBN 978-0-307-37966-5
Mesmerized by the dash and eccentricity of many who have flown balloons since the first Montgolfiers of 1783, Holmes (The Age of Wonder) communicates the perilous delight of ballooning through tales of scientific feats and derring-do. Fearless,...
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Richard Holmes. Pantheon, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-307-37968-9
Holmes’s (The Age of Wonder) concluding entry in the trilogy begun with Footsteps and Sidetracks is part memoir, part biography, and part deep reflection about his own creative process as a biographer. The book is divided into three sections: “Confes
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