Lives and letters
Subtitle: a history of literary biography in England and America
By: by Richard D. Altick.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Biography as a literary form.
Description: A critical study of biographies of English and American writers from the 17th century to the present, including the works of Izaak Walton, John Aubrey, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and Lytton Strachey.