Quennell, Peter 1905-1993

Hogarth's progress by Peter Quennell( Book )

27 editions published between 1955 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

54 editions published between 1945 and 1965 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,088 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 971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

24 editions published between 1947 and 1949 in English and Undetermined and held by 945 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

22 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 867 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Ruskin by Peter Quennell( Book )

33 editions published between 1956 and 1966 in 3 languages and held by 857 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

18 editions published between 1939 and 1973 in English and German and held by 755 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 )

4 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 745 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Byron, a self-portrait; letters and diaries, 1798 to 1824, with hitherto unpublished letters by George Gordon Byron Byron( Book )

22 editions published between 1950 and 1969 in English and held by 737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This two-volume set presents a collection of the personal, written correspondence of Lord Byron (1788-1824). Literary legend has it that Byron left behind the beginnings of an autobiography, but that his publisher destroyed it after his death because he found it too shocking. The author of this book 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, this work pieces 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. This 2-volume set 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

Casanova in London by Peter Quennell( Book )

9 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