Wintry conscience of a generation.

"The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing. "The memory that we live with is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her...

Woolf is the author of more than fifteen books, and innumerable essays and stories. She also kept a voluminous diary, an astonishing achievement for a writer crippled throughout her life by bouts of mental illness. Today she is honored not only as an innovative novelist and literary critic, indeed, one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century, but also as the author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in...

This book describes English literary development from the Post-Romantic and Victorian eras of the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era of the twentieth century.

"John Berger is one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art through Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants and the oppressed around the world. He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January...

A biography of the English novelist, essayist, and literary critic known for such works as a "A Room With A View," "Howards End," and "A Passage To India."

The life and writings of Bruce Chatwin, who was obsessed with nomadism and changed the idea of what travel writing could be--Cover.

Discusses the life, novels, and writing habits of J.K. Rowling, author of the popular "Harry Potter" novels.