Portraits of Genius: The great, drawn from the life

Classic biography of the brilliant and the famous — Boswell’s Johnson, Strachey’s Victorians, Plutarch’s ancients.

In this collection

• Death Has Crowned Him a Martyr
• The Lost Tribes of the Irish in the South
• Turgenev
• Gordon and Burnaby
• War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
• To Mary Church Turrell -- Lecturer
• To May Howard Jackson -- Sculptor
• Epitaph for Joseph Blackett, Late Poet and Shoemaker
• Worldliness and other-Worldliness: the Poet Young
• Samuel J. Tilden
• San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother
• Junior Achievement
• Kinmont Willie
• Tennyson (in Praise of Poets)
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume VI
• Cross Creek
• All collections