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For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised an "Ungrateful Florence" for exiling Dante. The Divine Comedy resonates across five hundred years of our literary canon. In Dante in Love, A. N...

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Following the critical and commercial success of "The Victorians" and "Our Times", Wilson brings to life the little-known story of one of the most celebrated and influential poets of all time and his masterpiece "The Comedy".

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This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. Memorable, funny, and gloriously paced for chanting in the bath, over the wreck of a picnic or out in a boat on a river. With poems that were written to be spoken, England is the perfect companion to the exploration and discovery of one of the world's literary bastions.

American writers of history who flourished in the more than two and a half centuries between the earliest colonial settlements and the end of the Civil War cover ...a vast and irregular territory, according to volume editor Clyde N. Wilson. The 46 writers in this DLB volume include the chroniclers and polemicists of the colonial, revolutionary, and early national eras, the literary, narrative historians of the 19th century, as well as biograph...

A highly intelligent and accessible biography of the great 19th century Russian author Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. From the eminent novelist and historian Wilson, author of "The Victorians, My Name Is Legion" and "Winnie & Wolf". Trade paperback.

From one of our leading social and cultural historians comes a dazzling and original exploration of how, and why, we should still be reading the Bible, even if we no longer believe.

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In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life, and instead traces the roots of T...

In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task-yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson br...

Blending military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind, distinguished historian Wilson offers an absorbing portrait of the decline of one of the world's great powers. The result is a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world, as well as a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents.

A Bonfire of the Vanities for contemporary LondonFrom A. N. Wilson, the renowned historian and novelist, comes a stunningly bold new work of fiction set in the darkly glamorous media world. Wilson's London is a bleak, if occasionally hilarious, place: murderous, lustful, money-obsessed, and haunted by strange gods. The Daily Legion is a rag that peddles celebrity gossip and denounces asylum seekers. The secret is that its financial survival de...

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