{"product_id":"footsteps-footsteps-adventures-of-a-romantic-biographer-9780679770046","title":"Footsteps: Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer","description":"Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality and marriage. \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Deeply impressive . . . \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular event in the modern history of biography, and in itself a delightful reading experience.\"--Alfred Kazin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography, shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A modern masterpiece . . .  Holmes is] the most romantic of contemporary biographers and probably the most revolutionary in spirit and form.\"--Michael Holroyd, author of \u003ci\u003eBernard Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes's other books include \u003ci\u003eThis Long Pursuit, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Early Visions\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), \u003ci\u003eColeridge: Darker Reflections \u003c\/i\u003e(a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and \u003ci\u003eDr. Johnson \u0026amp; Mr. Savage\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491888926994,"sku":"9780679770046","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b5ec53ea-0fa9-4265-9904-6785a8c0c4ca.jpg?v=1737213542","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/footsteps-footsteps-adventures-of-a-romantic-biographer-9780679770046","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}