Books by E. Harden

This new volume in the Author Chronology series offers an intense articulation of Henry James's biographical experiences, which are presented amid the detailed unfolding of his imaginative writing, and set in the larger context of historical developments that impinged upon his life.

This text conveys Thackeray's development as a novelist, lecturer, familiar essayist, and shaper of cultural awareness as editor of a journal, where he has so powerfully articulated the comical and absurd system of forces defining the human existence that he and his readers shared.

Illuminating the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context, this account provides an invaluable insight into the personal and professional life of an important American woman writer of the Twentieth Century.

This new volume in the Author Chronology series offers an intense articulation of Henry James's biographical experiences, which are presented amid the detailed unfolding of his imaginative writing, and set in the larger context of historical developments that impinged upon his life.

This book conveys Thackeray's development as a book reviewer, journalist, art exhibition critic, short-story writer, satirical essayist and novelist a development that culminates in the creation of his masterpiece, Vanity Fair one of the glories of English imaginative writing.

This book conveys Thackeray's development as a book reviewer, journalist, art exhibition critic, short-story writer, satirical essayist and novelist a development that culminates in the creation of his masterpiece, Vanity Fair one of the glories of English imaginative writing.

This is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the life and career of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63), one of the most eminent English novelists.