A Jealous Ghost A. N. Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
02 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 142g ISBN13: 9780099478669 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947866-9 ISBN10: 0099478668 EAN: 9780099478669 x Description: There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large country house. She seems to display astonishing naivety as she build a fantasy about her emotional future there. Surely she can see it is all delusion? But a progressively darker reality unfolds as we are led inexorably towards a terrible and shocking climax. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life of John Milton A. N. Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pimlico
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w153mm x s21mm 377g ISBN13: 9780712668187 ISBN13: 978-0-7126-6818-7 ISBN10: 0712668187 EAN: 9780712668187 x Description: A. N. Wilson's sympathetic, readable and brilliantly analytical narrative places John Milton, the greatest poet of the seventeenth century, in the context of his political and religious ideas. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Life Of Walter Scott: The Laird of Abbotsford A. N. Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pimlico
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) 224pp h234mm x w153mm x s17mm 276g ISBN13: 9780712697545 ISBN13: 978-0-7126-9754-5 ISBN10: 0712697543 EAN: 9780712697545 x Description: 'I have read all W. Scott's novels at least fifty times,' wrote Byron. '...grand work. Scotch Fielding, as well as great English poet wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him.' A. N. Wilson's subtle, entertaining and frequently provocative critical biography looks back through the indifference which has surrounded Walter Scott in recent times, and the distortions of his Victorian idolaters, to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. Despite his staggering output as a novelist, poet, biographer, historian and anthologist - not to mention his copious letters, and the celebrated Journal Scott only embarked on his literary career in early middle age. In the face of constant ill-health, and financial and domestic troubles, he successfully combined the life of a bestselling, much-loved and enormously influential author with that of a lawyer, landowner, Border farmer, part-time soldier and paterfamilias. A. N. Wilson makes clear that Scott's genius, his humaneness, and his splendid qualities of stoicism and sympathy were as apparent in his life as in his work.