/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18019172]

What is your favourite biography and why?

[Anonymous No.18019185]

Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work by Michael Heinrich

[Anonymous No.18019319]

>>18019185
Commie slut

[Anonymous No.18019334]

Richard Ellman's biography of James Joyce.

Best I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.18019348]

>>18019334
Small excerpt:

>The surface of the life Joyce lived seemed always erratic and provisional. But its central meaning was directed as consciously as his work. The ingenuity with which he wrote his books was the same with which he forced the world to read them; the smiling affection he extended to Bloom and his other principal characters was the same that he gave to the members of his family; his disregard for bourgeois thrift and convention "was the splendid extravagance which enabled him in literature to make an intractable wilderness into a new state. In whatever he did, his two profound interests-his family and his writings-kept their place. These passions never dwindled. The intensity of the first gave his work its sympathy and humanity; the intensity of the second raised his life to dignity and high dedication.

[Anonymous No.18019366]

>>18019172
I read both volumes by Dryden and felt discouraged because of how often I had to research locations and names with various aliases.
After finishing both I bought the Oxford version because of how good their maps were and notes but how disappointing they only had selections. No Coriolanus or Paullus what shit.

[Anonymous No.18019372]

>>18019172
So many proofs for his prophethood (pbuh) lie in these texts.

[Anonymous No.18019405]

>>18019172
I enjoyed Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. It's short but inspired me to believe I could change my life for the better if only I seized the opportunities that come by.