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    Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth

    Hilary Spurling

    Spurling, a much-honored biographer, unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured the lives of ordinary people in China in her novel The Good…

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    Matisse: The Life

    Hilary Spurling

    Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and competitor - Pablo Picasso. This title reveals the…

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    John Craxton

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    A celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history

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    The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

    Hilary Spurling

    George Orwell’s second wife was portrayed by her husband’s biographers as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia…

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    The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

    Hilary Spurling

    Praising . The portrait of George Orwell’s second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend Hilary Spurling, herself an acclaimed biographer…

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    Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954

    Hilary Spurling

    If my story were ever to be written down truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone, wrote Henri Matisse. It is hard to believe today that Matisse, whose…

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    Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

    Hilary Spurling

    The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell–and takes us deep into the heart of twentieth-century London’s literary life.

    Insightful, lively…

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    Invitation to the Dance: a Handbook to Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time

    Hilary Spurling

    Contains character, book, painting and place indices. This work is a database of Anthony Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape. It details over four hundred characters and one million words…

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    Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

    Hilary Spurling

    Captivating, immersive portrait of the acclaimed British novelist and high society wit - from one of our generation’s foremost biographers

    Peerless literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony…

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    The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908

    Hilary Spurling

    The art, youth, early maturity and life of artist Henri Matisse are thoroughly examined in this biography that also includes 24 pages of color reproductions.

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    The Raj Quartet (2): The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils; Introduction by Hilary Spurling

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    First included in Everyman’s Library, 2007 –T.p. verso.

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    John Russell: Australia’s French impressionist

    Australian artist John Russell (1858-1930) was an active and influential member of the French 19th century avant-garde, he was a close friend of Tom Roberts, Vincent van Gogh and Auguste…

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    The Raj Quartet (1): The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion; Introduction by Hilary Spurling

    Paul Scott

    The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott’s epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it…

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