Quennell, Peter 1905-1993

Overview

Works:	471 works in 2,104 publications in 5 languages and 43,615 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies Periodicals Criticism, interpretation, etc Dictionaries History Personal correspondence Diaries Literature Autobiographies Biography
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Contributor, Author of introduction, Other, Publishing director, Compiler, Creator, Commentator for written text
Classifications:	D1, 928.2

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Peter Quennell

The marble foot : an autobiography, 1905-1938 by Peter Quennell( Book )
The wanton chase : an autobiography from 1939 by Peter Quennell( Book )
The sign of the fish by Peter Quennell( Book )
A letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf by Peter Quennell( Book )
A superficial journey through Tokyo and Peking by Peter Quennell( Book )

Florence, to [Joseph Brewer] by Harold Acton( )
J. Howard Woolmer Poetry bookshop collection by J. Howard Woolmer( )
by Lincoln Kirstein( )
Siegfried Sassoon papers by Siegfried Sassoon( )
Quennell, Peter (Courtney)( )
The mighty dead : pages from the book The sign of the fish by Peter Quennell( Book )
Sterling and Francine Clark Papers: Reading Library by Robert Sterling Clark( )

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Most widely held works by Peter Quennell

The Colosseum by Peter Quennell( Book )

21 editions published between 1971 and 2002 in English and held by 2,385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections from literary works inspired by the ruin and reproductions of works of art accompany an illustrated history of the vast monument. Bibliog

History today( )

in English and Undetermined and held by 2,160 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Who's who in Shakespeare by Peter Quennell( Book )

73 editions published between 1973 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,861 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A comprehensive guide covering every character mentioned in the Shakespearian canon. Each of the over one thousand entries provides a summary of the character and establishes his or her importance in the action of the play. Also included are many quotations by Shakespeare's early critics, such as Johnson, Coleridge, and Hazlitt, as well as references to famous stagings of the play

Alexander Pope; the education of genius, 1688-1728 by Peter Quennell( Book )

42 editions published between 1968 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,563 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The close relationship between Pope's personal life, particularly his physical health and the long-lasting effects of an adolescent illness, and his writing career are traced meticulously. His literary associations are also carefully scrutinized and the influence of each on his various writings are explored in this study

Shakespeare, a biography by Peter Quennell( Book )

17 editions published between 1963 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,502 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this outstanding biography, the noted biographer and critic Peter Quennell provides an account of Shakespeare's life and literary development against the historical background of his age. His is a composite impression of the poet and his milieu, for Quennell believes that it is only through a knowledge of the period -- and how it affected the arthist's development -- that we can hope to reach the man himself

Byron: the years of fame by Peter Quennell( Book )

52 editions published between 1934 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of English literature by Peter Quennell( Book )

26 editions published between 1973 and 1981 in English and held by 1,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Samuel Johnson; his friends and enemies by Peter Quennell( Book )

17 editions published between 1972 and 1986 in English and French and held by 1,191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hogarth's progress by Peter Quennell( Book )

24 editions published in 1955 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Four portraits : studies of the eighteenth century by Peter Quennell( Book )

56 editions published between 1945 and 1965 in English and held by 1,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Marcel Proust, 1871-1922; a centennial volume( Book )

6 editions published in 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vladimir Nabokov, his life, his work, his world : a tribute by Peter Quennell( Book )

19 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 970 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Ruskin : the portrait of a prophet by Peter Quennell( Book )

26 editions published between 1947 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 968 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell( Book )

40 editions published between 1941 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 934 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Romantic England : writing and painting, 1717-1851 by Peter Quennell( Book )

27 editions published in 1970 in English and French and held by 903 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Ruskin by Peter Quennell( Book )

19 editions published between 1956 and 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 797 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Byron, a self-portrait; letters and diaries, 1798 to 1824, with hitherto unpublished letters by George Gordon Byron Byron( Book )

17 editions published between 1950 and 1969 in English and held by 748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Literary legend has it that Byron left behind the beginnings of an autobiography, but that his publisher, John Murray, destroyed it after his death because he found it too shocking. With this fascinating selection of correspondence written by one of England's greatest letter writers, Peter Quennell comes as close as anyone can to salvaging what was lost by the alleged actions of one overcautious publisher. Drawing on letters from Byron's pre-Harrow days to those written in the weeks before his death, Quennell has pieced together the extraordinary story of Byron's life as told by himself. As Byron records his thoughts as a schoolboy, man-of-the-world, rake and womanizer, literary sensation, and poet-in-exile, he reveals the rebellious, warm-hearted, disorderly, fun-loving, and neurotic sides to his private character. The volume conveys how his writing, veering from racy vulgarity to polished eloquence, vividly evokes the worlds in which he lived--London and Venetian high society, the Swiss and Italian countryside, and the Greek war tents at Missolonghi. It also includes Byron's journals reprinted in full. -- goodreads.com

Caroline of England : an Augustan portrait by Peter Quennell( Book )

19 editions published between 1939 and 1973 in English and German and held by 741 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 ? 20 November 1737[1]), commonly referred to as Caroline of Ansbach, was the queen consort of King George II of Great Britain."--Wikipedia

The prodigal rake : memoirs of William Hickey by William Hickey( Book )

5 editions published in 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 735 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Casanova in London by Peter Quennell( Book )

12 editions published in 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In the New Statesman, TLS, the Spectator, the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar among others, these short pieces appeared in other forms as book reviews, an introduction, etc. but all of them display Mr. Quennell's immanent virtues -- the well-informed insights so pleasantly styled. There are twenty-five figures, chiefly old with the exception of [Robert] Graves and [Evelyn] Waugh, and from both sides of the Channel. The title essay deals with the indignities Casanova suffered in London in 1763 in the hands and even in the bed of a malicious demi-mondame. There's Victor Hugo and George Sand in the setting sun of old age; [André] Gide, married to a woman who aroused devotion but could not awake desire while [James] Boswell, the dissolute, was anything but faithful; [Daniel] Defoe's transformation of Alexander Selkirk's story; Waugh, the 'greatest novelist' of this generation; that lovable old La Rochefoucauld; and the 'magician of pleasure,' [Guillaume] Apollinaire. One or two unknowns, generally speaking, Anthony Hamilton and [Henry] Mayhew and perhaps the Goncourts whose pursuit of l'art pour l'art is like Quennell's, a rebuke to our own 'slovenly and hall-hearted age.' Even in this minimal form, the essays represent a perfectly proportioned judgment and taste."--Kirkus Reviews

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