Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
J.K. Rowling	Ann Gaines	Provides a brief biography of author and storyteller Joanne Kathleen Rowling.	OL111968W
Feasting with panthers	Rupert Croft-Cooke	A completely unsentimental look at the English Decadents.	OL1162058W
The Brideshead Generation	Humphrey Carpenter	Biographical and literary study. Oxford in the 1920s and Waugh's life afterwards.	OL12072301W
You've Had Your Time	Anthony Burgess	The second volume of the two-volume autobiography. The narrative begins in 1959, with the author’s return from Brunei and the start of a professional writing career and ends in 1982 with the cente…	OL1386722W
Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland	Carol Greene	A brief biography of the nineteenth-century British mathematician, teacher, photographer, and author, best known for his "Alice" books.	OL1653301W
Glimpses of glory	Richard L. Greaves	"This is a reinterpretation of John Bunyan, a prolific author best known for his two allegories, The Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War, and his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding. In this boo…	OL1807172W
Wild Mary	Patrick Marnham	Biography of Mary Farmar, a descendant of the Duke of Wellington, who married first Baron Swinfen and then Eric Siepmann. She started writing seriously at the age of 70 under the pen name of Mary We…	OL1819609W
George Orwell	Kevin A. Boon	"A biography of writer George Orwell that describes his era, his major works--the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.	OL1891509W
Myth maker	Anne E. Neimark,Anne Neimark	Follows the life and work of the renowned fantasy writer, creator of hobbits and Middle Earth and "The Lord of the Rings."	OL1910858W
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein's creator	Joan Kane Nichols	A biography of the nineteenth-century English writer who at the age of nineteen wrote the classic horror novel "Frankenstein."	OL1914577W
Shakespeare wrote for money	Nick Hornby	With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from "The Believer" magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary di…	OL1916921W
Testament of friendship	Vera Brittain	In her famous volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, now an acclaimed BBC/PBS television serial, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonizing years of the First World War, lamenting the …	OL1971471W
Vindication	Lyndall Gordon	The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman of her era. A brilliant, unconventional rebel vilified for her strikingly modern notions of education, family…	OL1987224W
Sleuthing C.S. Lewis	Kathryn Ann Lindskoog	"Kathryn Lindskoog, of whom C. S. Lewis said that she knows his work better than anyone, has some serious questions for the guardians of the gates of the C. S. Lewis estate. Her careful, meticulous r…	OL2003634W
The trials of Radclyffe Hall	Diana Souhami	This is a biography of Radclyffe Hall, one of England nost eccentric contemporaywomen. She is also the quintissential gay and lesbian icon. The book spans her whole life from her unhappy childhood to…	OL2011262W
Britain by the Book	Oliver Tearle	x, 230 pages ; 21 cm	OL22541473W
Malory	Christina Hardyment	Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur (1469) is one of the most renown books in the world. Virtually all modern versions of the Arthurian legends are derived from its energetic, memorably phrased and rem…	OL2560397W
Roald Dahl	Chris Powling	its about all books which are written by roald dahl	OL2710487W
Body of truth	Callow, Philip.,Philip Callow	"In November 1919 D. H. Lawrence arrived in Venice, thirty-four years old, a big name with a banned book behind him, scraping by on very little but with a zest for life undiminished by shaky health. …	OL2743090W
H.G. Wells, first citizen of the future	Keith Ferrell	A biography of the famous English author who wrote more than 100 books on a wide range of subjects.	OL2987487W