Michael L Shelden

Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon

Orwell: The Authorized Biography

Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon

Orwell: The Authorized Biography

Graham Greene : The Enemy Within

Graham Greene: The Enemy Within

George Owell. Biografia autorizada (Spanish Edition)

El Orwell que nos presenta Shelden no es ni un santo ni un ideologo. Es imperfecto en su obra y contradictorio en su pensamiento. Este libro, preciso y ponderado, hara que los lectores descubran un Orwell arbitrario, injusto pero humano. Con esta biografia, el autor ha corrido por completo el velo q...

Orwell: The Authorized Biography

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] *A 1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist *A New York Times Notable Book for 1991 In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks n...

Orwell: The Authorized Biography

[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Frederick Davidson] *A 1992 Pulitzer Prize Finalist *A New York Times Notable Book for 1991 In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shel...

Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years

One day in late 1906, seventy-one-year-old Mark Twain attended a meeting on copyright law at the Library of Congress. The arrival of the famous author caused the usual stir—but then Twain took off his overcoat to reveal a "snow-white" tailored suit and scandalized the room. His shocking outfit appal...

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

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 earl...

George Orwell: The Authorised Biography

This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.

Graham Greene: The Enemy Within

An intimate portrait of acclaimed novelist Graham Greene reveals previously hidden facts about his mysterious double life as a spy and his complex sex life and provides a radical reinterpretation of some of his major works. 30,000 first printing.

Friends of promise: Cyril Connolly and the world of Horizon

This book about Cyril Connolly and the magazine "Horizon", is full of literary and social characters such as T.S.Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Stephen Spender, Nancy Mitford, Brian Howard and George Orwell.

Michael Shelden

Michael Shelden (born 1951) is an American biographer and teacher, notable for his authorized biography of George Orwell, his history of Cyril Connolly's ...