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ISBN: 9781861978523 - Burying the Bones Burying the Bones
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 1861978529  ISBN13: 9781861978523
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2011
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in... More

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ISBN: 9780140176056 - Matisse the Master Matisse the Master
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 0140176055  ISBN13: 9780140176056
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Sep 2006
Offers an exploration of Matisse's world, uncovering the secret life of the artist, whose paintings shocked and infuriated his contemporaries while paving the way for modern art. This volume tells the story of Matisse's growing artistic maturity... More

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ISBN: 9780140176049 - The Unknown Matisse (v. 1) The Unknown Matisse (v. 1)
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 0140176047  ISBN13: 9780140176049
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Apr 2000
Presents the biography of Matisse. 'Hilary Spurling's "The Unknown Matisse" is a truly wonderful biography. Her prose is muscular, rhythmical, carrying a lot of information, yet swift, enthralling. She has done for Matisse what George Painter... More

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ISBN: 9780099484363 - Invitation to the Dance Invitation to the Dance
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 0099484366  ISBN13: 9780099484363
Publisher: Cornerstone Arrow Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2005
An erudite companion to Anthony Powell's 12-volume masterwork, "A Dance to the Music of Time," which The NewYorker hailed as "one of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War."A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of... More

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ISBN: 9780141008172 - The Girl from the Fiction Department The Girl from the Fiction Department
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 0141008172  ISBN13: 9780141008172
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jun 2003
Beautiful and intelligent, Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in 1984 - lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to George Orwell changed her life for ever. Burdened with the almost impossible task of... More

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ISBN: 9780141030784 - Matisse Matisse
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 014103078X  ISBN13: 9780141030784
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2009
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 origins of Matisse's astonishing talent and provides an insight into his... More

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ISBN: 9781902721064 - Opposing Forces Opposing Forces
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 1902721063  ISBN13: 9781902721064
Publisher: The Hart Gallery
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2002

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ISBN: 9781582432441 - The Girl from the Fiction Department The Girl from the Fiction Department
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 1582432449  ISBN13: 9781582432441
Publisher: Counterpoint,U.S.
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2004
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, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. More

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ISBN: 9780571251902 - Ivy Ivy
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 0571251900  ISBN13: 9780571251902
Publisher: Faber and Faber Faber Finds
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Jun 2009
Intends to relate the life of Ivy Compton-Burnett, and shows how her subject's characters mirror aspects of her own nature. 'It is a real cause for celebration when the best and most subtle literary biography of our time comes back into print... More

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ISBN: 9780571247332 - Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book
Hilary Spurling

ISBN10: 0571247334  ISBN13: 9780571247332
Publisher: Faber and Faber Faber Finds
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Nov 2008
Offering an intimate glimpse into the fabric of everyday Elizabethan life, this cookery book combines scholarly and practical skills. It pinpoints the author's precise social standing and that of her intimates and acquaintances, of the kind of... More