Biography

Very Short Introductions

Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how they are compared with history and fiction.

Part of the series Very Short Introductions

African History
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Philosophy
Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Animal rights
Archaeology
Architecture
Art History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Art Theory
Art Theory
Atheism
Augustine
Autism
Barthes
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Bestsellers
Biography
British politics
Catholicism
China: The Fragile Superpower
Choice Theory
Christian Art
Citizenship
Classics
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Clausewitz
Consciousness
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Continental philosophy
Cosmology
Cosmology
Cryptography
Darwin
Democracy
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Descartes
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Drugs
Egyptian Myth
Eighteenth-century Britain
Emotion
Empire
Empire
Engels
Engels: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Ethics
Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Fascism
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
First World War
Free Will
Freud
Fundamentalism
Gandhi
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Global catastrophes
Globalization
HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Hegel
Heidegger
Hinduism
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction
Hobbes
Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Key Concepts)
Hume
Ideology
Indian philosophy
Intelligence
International Relations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Journalism
Judaism
Jung
Jung: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Kabbalah
Kafka: Judaism, Politics, Literature
Kant
Kierkegaard
Law
Linguistics
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Locke
Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
Marx
Marx (Past Masters)
Mathematics
Mathematics
Medieval Britain
Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Modern Art
Modern Ireland
Myth
Nietzsche
Nietzsche
Nineteenth-century Britain
Northern Ireland
Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Paul
Paul
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Plato
Plato
Political Philosophy
Politics
Politics
Politics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Poststructuralism
Prehistory
Presocratic Philosophy
Psychiatry
Psychology
Puritanism
Quantum Theory
Racism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Religion in America
Roman Britain
Roman Britain
Rousseau
Russell
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Russian literature
SOCRATES
Schizophrenia
Schopenhauer
Shakespeare
Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Social and cultural anthropology
Sociology
Spanish Civil War
Spinoza
Stuart Britain
Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Stuart Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Terrorism
The Anglo-Saxon Age
The Brain: A Very Short Introduction
The Buddha
The Buddha
The Celts
The Celts: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The Cold War
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The Earth
The European Union
The French Revolution
The Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The History of Astronomy
The Meaning of Life
The Old Testament
The Philosophy of Law
The Quakers
The Roman Empire
The Russian revolution
The Tudors
The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Tudors
Twentieth-Century Britain
Wittgenstein
World Music
World Music

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Cover Art for 9780199533541, Biography by Hermione Lee
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United Kingdom Jul, 2009
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Mar, 2001
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