A biography of Oscar Wilde, this book offers a look at Wilde's rise and fall.

"A superbly researched biography.that unlike so many others is neither hagiography nor hatchet-job, and probably gets closer to the truth than any.magnificently told.' Michael Dobbs, Sunday Express'An exciting narrative.A triumph.' Ian Gilmour, Spectator'This book takes a chisel to a national monument.An uncommonly vivid writer.an ironic and entertaining account.' Anthony Howard, Sunday Times'A fascinating account.Campbell's research is exhaustive as it is meticulous.' Andrew Ramsley, Observer'A searching and beautifully written volume.' Geoffrey Howe, Independent'Thorough, scholarly and fair-minded.' Shirley Williams, Independent on Sunday'The best book yet written about Lady Thatcher.' Frank Johnson, Daily Telegraph"

"Eliciting much new material on Sapir's life and times, as well as offering a judicious assessment of his accomplishments . . . this will be the benchmark Sapir biography."--Raymond D. Fogelson, University of Chicago "Outstandingly original . . . an account not only of Sapir's life but of a whole era in American intellectual history."--William Bright, University of Colorado "Eliciting much new material on Sapir's life and times, as well as offering a judicious assessment of his accomplishments . . . this will be the benchmark Sapir biography."--Raymond D. Fogelson, University of Chicago

King Harold Godwineson is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman victory. In truth, he deserves to be recalled as one of the greatest rulers. Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King sets out to correct this distorted image by presenting Harold's life in its proper context, offering the first full-length critical study of his career in the years leading up to 1066. Ian Walker's carefully researched critique allows the reader to realistically assess the lives of both Harold and his rival William, significantly enhancing our knowledge of both.

Biografie van de bekende paragnost en stichter van het Johan Borgman-fonds, dat zich inzet voor opleidingsmogelijkheden voor paranormaal begaafden.

Biografie over de Nederlandse scheidsrechter.

Biografie van de Vlaamse schrijver (1882-1960).

This book is an alternative armchair adventure that chronicles the exploits of one of the most outrageous men of our time, a nature lover, a profane mystic, who parties with his druidical knights, the Warband, while preaching of personal freedom from atop a motorcycle.

"I never killed Raoul Loveday with a magical spell". Aleister Crowley, otherwise known as the Beast 666, shared membership of the Golden Dawn with W B Yeats, and publishers with D H Lawrence. Now in a beyond-the-grave autobiography, he recounts his own vocation, his practice of sex magic, and his bruising encounters with his contemporaries. The great magus, whose own world-conquering creed The Book of the Law was written in Cairo in 1904, was according to him, no murderer, but a prophet and practitioner of all kinds of sexual freedom and new magical systems.

Rupert Brooke became for many the embodiment of a generation that was all but wiped out between 1914 and 1918. He became a legend largely due to one of his sonnets: If I should die, think only this of me / That there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. The poem, and all that it represented, became the focal point of a nation's grief for its lost youth.

This book recounts their lives as Britain descended into turmoil, with the Asquith sons fighting in the trenches as their father, the Prime Minister, struggled to direct the bloodiest war in his country's history. Margot Asquith's remarkable role as the most intriguing of primeministerial wives is fully explored: her feuds with Lloyd George, her mistrust of the gutter genius Winston Churchill, and her hatred of Lord Northcliffe, the press baron who ultimately drove her husband from power in 1916. At the heart of the story are four of the Asquith children, Raymond, the brilliant scholar and outstanding President of the Oxford Union, who died leading his men into attack on the Somme; the shy Beb, artillery officer and poet, who overcame shell shock to face the horrors of Passchendale; Oc, whom General Freyberg - himself a VC - described as the bravest man I ever knew; and their mercurial sister Violet, her father's most ardent supporter but the bane of her jealous stepmother's life. Drawing for the first time on Margot Asquith's own journals, Asquith's letters to her, and a mass of hitherto unpublished correspondence, Colin Clifford provides an engrossing picture of a remarkable political family at a time of crisis.