Böcker av Ronald Hayman

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Extracts are, however, taken from all the major novels and are arranged chronologically to demonstrate the development of technique.

'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself. An enthralling guide for a new, postmodern age.

This drama about a sensitive, driven, turbulent and mystical playwright uses a fictional play-within-a-play device to create the environment within which its director/subject - Strindburg - works out his relationships with his lovers and his cast.

In this frank study Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in the work of one of the most exuberantly autobiographical dramatists of the American Theatre. He examines Williams's troubled childhood, his drug abuse and alcoholism, and his death in 1983.

Carl Jung's theories made him one of the world's most influential analysts. This biography reveals what went on during Jung's sessions with patients and exploresthe man's own sanity.

This biography sets out to reveal the true identity of the novelist Thomas Mann. His bisexuality, obsession with preserving appearances and the deep guilt which plagued him for much of his life is exposed. These revelations are drawn from Mann's diaries and interviews with his children.