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Rare Case of a Poet who Doubted His Own Genius

A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold

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Sylvia Clayton

Blake’s Progress

Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

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Nikolai Tolstoy

A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins

Anton Chekhov: A Life

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Philip Hensher

Nothing Is Explained

Joseph Conrad: A Biography

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Donald Rayfield

Midwife to Genius

Furious Vissarion: Belinski's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas

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Donald Rayfield

Farmer, Novelist, Guru, Ascetic

Tolstoy: A Russian Life

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Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Paul Johnson

On New Grub Street

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany

Jay Parini

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

By Michael Gorra

John Sutherland

No Smoke without Fire?

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

By Michael Slater

Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor

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Phil Baker

How to Sell Paper

Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The Working Life of Herbert Allingham

By Julia Jones

Duncan Wu

No Scribbling Rivalry

William and Dorothy Wordsworth: ‘All in Each Other’

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