Books by Karl Miller

Describes various phases of the author's life, including orphan-like upbringing by female relatives in the heart of Midlothian; national service; and Cambridge and the start of his career in London, which was to culminate in his founding editorship of the "London Review of Books".

Dark Horses is the vade mecum and memoir of an eminent literary critic and teacher, who also edited several of the most influential literary magazines of his time, and who founded the most influential literary journal of our time, the London Review of Books.

Henry Cockburn (1779-1854) is a leading Scottish Whig of the nineteenth century and author of the classic "Memorials of His Time". This title contains rich digressions on the outlook of the Scottish Whigs, on the world of the Edinburgh review, and on the Tory world-picture by which Cockburn and his friends were confronted.

The book's subjects include Poe, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Stevenson, Conrad, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow. 'Karl Miller has brought off a notable double: he has written an academic book which deserves popular success.' Alan Massie

Includes essays which are largely about a time that is past, about the modern Scotland which began after the First World War and lasted out the second. This title also provides a portrait of Edinburgh, and shows what has become of the city since the great days of the early nineteenth century.