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To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape - Literary Review
WEBA review of a book that recounts the story of Charles II's six-week flight after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The reviewer praises the book's use of sources, pace and detail, but criticizes its portrayal of the king's character.
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
WEBSarah Weinman explores the real-life story of Sally Horner, who was kidnapped by a man who inspired Nabokov's Lolita, and the novel that scandalized the world. The book is a unique and peculiar blend of true-crime and literary analysis, but it loses focus and credibility when it comes to Nabokov.
What am I Doing Here by Bruce Chatwin - review by Hilary Mantel
WEB‘My whole life has been a search for the miraculous,’ Bruce Chatwin says. Each of these essays, fragments and sketches written between 1972 and the author’s recent death are way-stations in the search. Chatwin is unclassifiable. Certainly he is one of the practitioners who have enlarged ...
The New Oxford Book of English Prose - Literary Review
WEBThe Oxford Book of English Prose, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, appeared in November 1925, exactly twenty-five years after The Oxford Book of English Verse.The immense success of the latter, although it was far from being the first or the best of verse anthologies, explains why the editor was already Sir Arthur.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life - Literary Review
WEBThis is not a book about Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It is the book. Previous studies, above all the monumental and patient work of Michael Scammell, 'will give you all the facts' – as biographies do in Auden's poem. D M Thomas presents us with a huge historical canvas – a history of twentieth ...
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut - review by Guy Stevenson
WEBThe Maniac is Benjamín Labatut’s second creative history of the humans behind the atomic bomb, computers and AI.The follow-up to his International Booker Prize-shortlisted When We Cease to Understand the World, it features some of the same cast and approaches all of the same themes, albeit from marginally different angles.Starting with an epigraph from a 13th-century mystic, Labatut ...