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Hero of Delhi

An Irishman, like so many other great British generals, John Nicholson received a cadetship in th...

Walter Scott - His Life And Personality

This is a portrait of a man whose life was more extraordinary than his novels. As a child he suff...

Life of Shakespeare

'You are a genuine soaker in Shakespeare, and have not read him as a task. You have him by heart....

Conan Doyle: His Life And Art

A sympathetic and illuminating portrait of the creator of one of the most famous characters in En...

Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish pla...

Man Whistler

The American painter, James McNeil Whistler, is the subject of Hesketh Pearson's biography. Whist...

G.B.S.

This book, first published in 1951, is a Postscript to Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality-Hes...

Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography

The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson's biography...

Arthur Conan Doyle: His Life and Art

Oscar Wilde

Few personalities in the history of literature have aroused so much interest as that of Oscar Wil...

Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography

The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson's biography...

Bernard Shaw: His Life And Personality

First published in 1942, Hesketh Pearson's much lauded biography has been hailed as the standard ...