New Releases by Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling is the author of The Girl from the Fiction Department (2016), Gary Wragg (2014), Burying The Bones (2011), Matisse and the Model (2011), 埋骨 (2011).

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The Girl from the Fiction Department

release date: Jan 28, 2016
The Girl from the Fiction Department
Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell''s controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony Powell Just three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took a new wife. Sonia Brownell was model for Julia in Orwell''s most famous novel, she was fifteen years younger than her husband, and after his death she was hounded and pilloried as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of the literary legacy. But the truth about Sonia was altogether different. Beautiful, intelligent and fiercely idealistic, she lived at the heart of London''s literary and artistic scene before her marriage to Orwell changed her life for ever. Those who knew her - Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus - witnessed her great personal generosity. And yet, burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell''s intellectual estate, Sonia''s loyalty to her late husband brought her nothing but poverty and despair.

Burying The Bones

release date: Apr 07, 2011
Burying The Bones
Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Buck''s father was a terrifying figure, with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion - a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the family''s budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament, while his aggrieved, long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children, several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author (her most renowned work, The Good Earth, re-entered the bestseller charts in 2004 when it was selected for Oprah''s Book Club) but in this startlingly original biography, Spurling recounts with elegance and great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West.

Matisse and the Model

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Matisse and the Model
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Matisse and the Model, at Eykyn Maclean, New York, Curated by Ann Dumas.

埋骨

release date: Jan 01, 2011
埋骨
"A thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist and author of The Good Earth. Pearl Buck foresaw China''s future as a superpower long before anyone else. She witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution as a teenager, and narrowly esacped being killed herself in the subsequent battles between Communists and Nationalists. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries but she spoke Chinese before she learnt English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the Boxers'' terrorist uprising forced her family to flee for their lives..." -- cover verso.

Pearl Buck in China

release date: Jun 01, 2010
Pearl Buck in China
One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw China’s future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of China’s building a relationship with the United States. As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearl’s life in China. "Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld." Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang’s Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either. Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan. Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people— "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.

Matisse : [biographie]

release date: Jan 01, 2009
Matisse : [biographie]
Une biographie magistrale qui a nécessité plus de huit années de recherches. La minutie et la rigueur n''empêchent pourtant pas de la lire comme un roman, puisque le style demeure vivant. Avec anecdotes, témoignages et correspondance. [SDM].

Matisse (2 vols. con estuche)

release date: Nov 01, 2007
Matisse (2 vols. con estuche)
Este magno y exhaustivo análisis de Hilary Spurling, premiada por esta obra con el codiciado Premio Whitbread, recorre con minucia la vida y la trayectoria de Matisse, y ésta demuestra ser la mejor manera para comprender tanto las obras individuales del pintor como su impresionante trayectoria y la evolución de sus ideas respecto a las artes plásticas. No sólo nos encontramos ante la más completa y definitiva biografía de uno de los pintores más célebres, sino de un espléndido retrado de los ambientes artísticos en que se desarrolló su obra. A esto se une una investigación muy rigurosa con información inédita del artista procedente de entrevistas y el talento narrativo de Spurling al entreverar la evolución biográfica y personal con la artística.

La Gran Thérèse

release date: Jun 30, 2007
La Gran Thérèse
"Mme. Humbert no tuvo en cuenta una cuestión: lo que en el sur no tiene por qué ser cierto, en el norte se admite de modo literal. Aquí no se puede contar mentiras sin ser creído inmediatamente".

The Raj Quartet: The towers of silence

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Raj Quartet: The towers of silence
`Set against the backdrop of Gandhi''s calls for independence and a potential Japanese invasion, four masterful historical novels--The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of the Spoils--covering the period between the Quit India riots of 1942 and the massacres that accompanied independence and partition in 1947 provide insight into the closing years of British rule in India.

Matisse - Leben und Werk

release date: Jan 01, 2006

La grande Thérèse

release date: Jan 01, 2006

Matisse the Master

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Matisse the Master
With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse''s attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.

Sonia Orwell

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Sonia Orwell
Otoño de 1940: ha estallado la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Llueven bombas sobre Londres; los teatros han cerrado, y de noche reina la oscuridad por miedo a la aviación enemiga. Una joven rubia y pálida, que parece salida de un lienzo de Renoir, acaba de aceptar la oferta laboral de Horizon, una revista que se erigirá en referente cultural europeo.

Matisse and His Models

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Matisse, His Art and His Textiles

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Matisse, His Art and His Textiles
Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the same name to be held at Musaee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambraesis, Oct. 23, 2004-January 25 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 5-May 30 2005, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 23-September 25, 2005.

Bryan Kneale RA

release date: Jan 01, 2002

Matisse

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Matisse
Une biographie magistrale qui a nécessité plus de huit années de recherches. La minutie et la rigueur n''empêchent pourtant pas de la lire comme un roman, puisque le style demeure vivant. Avec anecdotes, témoignages et correspondance. [SDM].

Matisse inconnu

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Matisse inconnu
S''assurer la confiance de la famille Matisse fut primordial dans l''entreprise de Hilary Spurling. Cette biographie rend hommage au génie de Matisse. Elle s''appuie à la fois sur des documents rares et des témoignages.

Matisse le maître

release date: Jan 01, 2001

La Grande Thérèse

release date: Jan 01, 2000
La Grande Thérèse
"Hilary Spurling has done meticulous research into the life of Therese Humbert. La Grand Therese is the remarkable story of the spectacular rise and fall of a French peasant girl with an extraordinary imagination and irresistible powers of persuasion."--BOOK JACKET.

La Grande Thérèse, Or, The Greatest Swindle of the Century

release date: Jan 01, 1999

1869 - 1908

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Henri Matisse, homme du Nord : sur les pas du maître dans sa région natale

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Der unbekannte Matisse.

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book

release date: Jan 01, 1986
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