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1) Mark Twain: man in white : the grand adventure of his final years

Author

Shelden, Michael

Pub. Date

[2010]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Shelden illuminates Mark Twain's twilight years in this brilliant account of the legendary author's life. Drawing heavily on Twain's letters and journals, Mark Twain: Man in White recounts both Twain's private family experiences and his larger-than-life public image.

2) Melville in love: the secret life of Herman Melville and the muse of Moby-Dick

Author

Shelden, Michael

Pub. Date

[2016]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville's passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville's own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the “iron rule” of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had...

3) Young titan: the making of Winston Churchill

Author

Shelden, Michael

Pub. Date

2013.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Language

English

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In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill's early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that both nearly undid him but also forged the character that would later triumph in the Second World War. Between...

4) Orwell: the authorized biography

Author

Shelden, Michael

Pub. Date

1991.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks new ground in the evocation of George Orwell's personal life and in our understanding of his art. Based on original interviews, previously undiscovered letters and documents, and astute literary detective work, Orwell is the major biography of one of the great yet elusive literary figures of our time. Shelden...