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Literary Rivals : Literary Antagonism, Writers' Feuds and Private Vexations, Hardback Book

Literary Rivals : Literary Antagonism, Writers' Feuds and Private Vexations Hardback

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Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making.

When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade.

Richard Bradford's highly entertaining book looks at some of the closest and most complex relationships in literary history, as well as examining their dramatic effects on literature itself. Who was the object of Coleridge's infatuation that drove a wedge between himself and Wordsworth?

Where did Thackeray utter the single sentence that ended his tentative friendship with Dickens?

Why did differing opinions lead to the cessation of letters between former confidants Amis and Larkin?

How did Hemingway use and abuse Stein's artistic circle in Paris?

What American literary ambition spawned brutal competition between Capote and Vidal? From Tolstoy's deferred duelling and Dostoevsky's defamatory fiction, to J.

C. Squire's qualms with modernism and Salman Rushdie's run-in with Islam, Literary Rivals is an enjoyable romp through the world of the fiercest writers' rivalries and the most bizarre literary stand-offs.

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