Guardian Essential LibraryBiography
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Clear your shelves of dog-eared airport novels, forgettable potboilers and half-read works of non-fiction.
We asked eminent writers to choose 10 books from their respective fields to make up a mostrar mais capsule library of indispensable volumes. The only rules were that the books had to be in print and readily available in the UK.
From art to science via fiction and memoir, these are their selections for the Guardian's Essential Library of 100 vital books. Collect them, then read them...
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Brief Lives (1898) por John Aubrey |
The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) por James Boswell |
Henry James: A Life (1985) por Leon Edel |
The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) por Elizabeth Gaskell |
Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) por Andrew Hodges |
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (1993) por Richard Holmes |
Eminent Victorians (1918) por Lytton Strachey |
The Quest for Corvo : An Experiment in Biography (1934) por A. J. A. Symons |
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990) por Claire Tomalin |
Orlando: A Biography (1928) por Virginia Woolf |
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