When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey first appeared in 1967, it was hailed as a landmark in contemporary biography. Drawing now on new material, published and unpublished, Holroyd has completely revised and rewritten his masterwork to tell the full story of this complex man and his world as it could not be told while many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still alive. And at the heart of the story is the poignant liasion between Strachey and the painter Dora Carrington. A panorama of the social, literary, political and sexual life of a generation, LYTTON STRACHEY reverberates in the mind like a great novel.

Lytton Strachey

Michael Holroyd

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers

Parenting & Relationships

Vintage Books

Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition [ILLUSTRATED]

Biographies & Memoirs

VINTAGE (RAND)

Unreceived Opinions

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The first volume of Holroyd's biography of Bernard Shaw recounts his Dublin childhood, a series of love affairs and his marriage in 1898. It also records Shaw establishing himself in London literary society as a leading member of the Fabian Society, a music critic and a playwright.

Bernard Shaw the Search for Love (v. 1)

Penguin Putnam~trade

Bernard Shaw, Vol. 3: 1918-1950 - The Lure of Fantasy

Michael Holroyd opens with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then examines the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp - to which he adds some adventures of his own, in particular an important and unpublished piece THE MAKING OF GBS, a riveting story of deadly literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics.

Works on Paper : The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

ABACUS +

Lytton Strachey by Himself

ABACUS (LITT)

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)

J.L. Carr

United States

NYRB Classics

Facts and Fiction: A Book of Storytelling

Bloomsbury Publishing

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