{"product_id":"9780008168728","title":"This Long Pursuit: Reflections Of A Romantic Biographer","description":"Author: Richard Holmes\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008168728\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Oct 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentral to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and others almost lost: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft and Zélide. He investigates the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence, the opium-soaked genius Coleridge, and the mad-visionary bard William Blake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diversity of Holmes’s material is testimony to his empathy, erudition and at times his mischievous streak. This is his most personal and seductive writing yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47239790100638,"sku":"HPC-9780008168728","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008168728.jpg?v=1780359667","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008168728","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}