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Wilfred Owen: A Biography (Oxford Paperbacks)

By Stallworthy, Jon

John Henry Newman: A Biography (Oxford lives)

By Ker, I. T.

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett - The Courtship Correspondence

By Daniel Karlin

Learning Not to be First: Life of Christina Rossetti (Oxford Lives Series)

By Jones, Kathleen

Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790): v.1 (Oxford Lives)

By Boyle, Nicholas

Founders of Faith: "Buddha", "Confucius", "Jesus" and "Muhammad" (Past Masters S.)

By Carrithers, Michael, Dawson, Raymond, Carpenter, Humphrey, Cook, Michael

Quest for "Kim": In Search of Kipling's Great Game

By Hopkirk, Peter

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

By De Quincey, Thomas, Lindop, Grevel

Shakespeare (Past Masters Series)

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

Aristotle (Past Masters S.)

By Barnes, Jonathan

Coleridge (Past Masters S.)

By Holmes, Richard

The Bronte Story: Stage 3 (Oxford Bookworms S.)

By Vicary, Tim

The Ardent Pilgrim: An Introduction to the Life and Works of Mohammed Iqbal

By Singh, Iqbal

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life

By Gordon, Lyndall

Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By Mee, Jon

William Wordsworth: A Life

By Gill, Stephen

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel

By Woodhouse, J.R.

W. B. Yeats: A Life , Vol. 2: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939: Arch-poet 1915-1939 v. 2

By Foster, R. F.

Edward Thomas: A Portrait

By Thomas, R. George

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations (Oxford Paperback Reference)

By Kemp, Peter

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (Oxford Companions)

By Hamilton, Ian

Selection (Oxford English Texts)

By Johnson, Samuel, Hardy, John Philips

William Shakespeare: The Master Playwright (What's Their Story?)

By Middleton, Haydn, Ball, Gerry

Roald Dahl: The Champion Storyteller (What's Their Story?)

By Shavick, Andrea, Marks, Alan

Hans Christian Andersen: The Dreamer of Fairy Tales (What's Their Story?)

By Langley, Andrew, Morris, Tony

True Lives: Roald Dahl: The Champion Storyteller

By Shavick, Andrea

William Shakespeare (Very Interesting People)

By Holland, Peter

Charles Darwin (Very Interesting People)

By Desmond, Adrian, Moore, James, Browne, Janet

Hannah More: The First Victorian

By Stott, Anne

Charles Williams: The Third Inkling

By Lindop, Grevel