The Camelthorn Papers (Puffin Books)

Thwaite, Ann

Children's Books

Puffin Books

The life of Edmund Gosse was one of continuous contradiction. As he recalled in "Father and Son", he was a precocious only child brought up by his extraordinary father, whose thinking and conduct were dominated equally by the Bible and the "Actinologica Britannica", a study of marine life. Later, with inexplicable poise, he was simultaneously the intimate of Swinbourne and a sunday school superintendant, and public opinion divided in calling him the most discerning critic in England and a 'literary charlatan' with a 'genius for inaccuracy'. Gosse's rise to pre-eminence was rapid, and at his death he was acknowledged as the friend of Tennyson and Hans Christian Anderson, the confidant of Browning, R.L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy and Henry James, and the champion of Ibsen, Gide and Yeats. In her biography, Ann Thwaite has painstakingly separated the facts from prejudice and rumour to reveal a picture of Edmund Gosse which can at last be called true to life. She refuses to ignore his many contradictions, but shows how they reflect the complexity of his singular genius.

'EDMUND GOSSE: A LITERARY LANDSCAPE, 1849-1928'

Oxford Paperbacks

Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849-1928

University of Chicago Press

A Piece of Parkin A true story from the autobiography of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Piece of Parkin

Dutton Childrens Books

Amy and the Night-time Visit

Skinner, J.C.

Scholastic Ltd.

A.A.Milne/Man Beh-Can

Random House Canada

Portrays the life and career of the successful playwright who was never able to shake the public's idea that he only wrote for children

A.A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: Story of A.A.Milne and His Writing for Children

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: The Story of A.A. Milne and His Writing for Children

Egmont Childrens Books

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh

567p hardback with black glossy dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, usual markings, dustjacket a little scuffed, internally excellent, illustrated

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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