Written Lives by Javier Marias Seguir

Written Lives by Javier Marias SeguirIn these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Maras, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic sainthood. Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bront was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories of

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anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society

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