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Philip Callow 's splendidly readable biography of Robert Louis Stevenson recounts the life of Scotland 's finest writer of English prose and the author of such classics as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A sickly child, Louis became in turn a bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy traipsing through the mountains of France with a donkey, and at twenty-eight the lover of an American woman ten years his senior, the fabulous Fanny. His feel...

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When Philip Callow's Common People was first published in 1958, reviewer John Betjeman described it as "a genuine cry from a class usually silent in the literary world" and hailed it as one of the best books of the year. The story of a young working-class man from the Midlands who dreams of escaping to an exciting life in London but is torn between his desire for an artistic career and his need to be married and "know common joys", Callow's no...

A skillful biography focusing on D.H. Lawrence's developing consciousness during his childhood and youth in the English Midlands, his university days, his elopement with Frieda, and his departure from England in 1919.

The life of Russia 's greatest dramatist and storyteller examined within the context of the evolution of his art. A fine biography...a very well-written, intelligent account of Chekhov 's remarkable literary career and of his private actions. Atlantic Monthly.

In this follow up to his biography of Lawrence's childhood and youth, Son and Lover, Mr. Callow recounts Lawrence's last years his tempestuous relationship with Frieda and his almost continuous travels between New Mexico, Europe, and England.

Callow's evocative new life of Walt Whitman captures the elusive truth of the great poet of democracy. His prose is clear and easy and elegant, his observation sharp but kind and never superficial.--V.S. Naipaul

A splendid new biography vivid, intimate, scrupulously accurate yet reads like a novel. As we read Callow we feel closer to that tormented genius. Olivier Bernier, Newsday. A Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection.