Biography: A Very Short Introduction (Record no. 29700)
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| fixed length control field | 01537nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780199533541 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 809.93592 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Lee, Hermione |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Biography: A Very Short Introduction |
| Statement of responsibility | Hermione Lee |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxiii,177 Pages |
| Other physical details | 17x11 cm |
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| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Very Short Introductions |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Includes Index and Illustrations. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master--the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers, and asks whether there are different strategies, ethics, and principles required for writing about one person compared to another. She also discusses contemporary biographical publications and considers what kind of "lives" are the most popular and in demand. And along the way, she answers such questions as why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal things? Does the biographer need to personally know the subject? Must a biographer be subjective? |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Biography as a literary form |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-04-15 | CRV/GPLM/17/2016 | 886.74 | 809.93592 L477B 2009 | 35852 | Books |