The Modern Library

TWENTY OF THE BEST WRITTEN SINCE 1950

Peter Ackroyd

T. S. Eliot: A Life 1984

Walter Jackson Bate

Samuel Johnson 1978

Jane Dunn

Antonia White: A Life 1998

Leon Edel

Henry James 1953–1972

(5 volumes)

Richard Ellmann

James Joyce 1959

Roy Foster

Yeats 1997

Ian Gibson

Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life 1988

Gordon Haight

George Eliot 1968

Ian Hamilton

Robert Lowell 1977

Richard Holmes

Footsteps, Adventures of a Romantic Biographer 1985

Michael Holroyd

Lytton Strachey 1994

(one-volume edition)

Hermione Lee

Virginia Woolf 1996

Fiona MacCarthy

William Morris: A Life for Our Time 1994

Bernard Martin

Tennyson: An Unquiet Mind 1980

George Painter

Marcel Proust: A Biography 1989

(one-volume revised edition)

Graham Robb

Victor Hugo 1997

Richard B. Sewell

Emily Dickinson 1996

Jon Stallworthy

Wilfred Owen 1974

Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen 1997

Jenny Uglow

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories 1993