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by Fenton
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Mr. Norris Changes Trains; and, Goodbye to Berlin (1985)

London: Chatto & Windus

Written by Christopher Isherwood.

Introduction by James Fenton.

 
Cambodian Witness: The Autobiography of Someth May (1986)

London: Faber & Faber

Edited and with an introduction by James Fenton.

 

 

Underground in Japan (1992)

London: Jonathan Cape

By Rey Ventura.

Edited and Introduced by James Fenton.

With an afterword by Ian Buruma.

 

 

Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)

London: Everyman's Library (#187)

Edited and Introduced by James Fenton.

 

 

Wystan and Chester (1995)

New York: Columbia University Press

Written by Thekla Clark.

Introduction by James Fenton.

A Personal Memoir of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

 

Jellyfish Cupful: Writings in Honour of John Fuller (1997)

London: Ulysses

Edited by Barney Cokeliss and James Fenton.

A collection of pieces celebrating the sixtieth birthday of John Fuller. The contributors, most of whom have been taught by John Fuller at Oxford, include James Fenton, Alan Hollinghurst, Andrew Motion, Adam Thorpe, Mick Imlah, and others.

Limited edition of 200 copies; 100 are for private circulation.

 
This Lunar Beauty: Selected Poems 1927-39 (1998)

Penguin Audiobooks

Poems written by W. H. Auden.

Selected and read by James Fenton.

 
Howard Hodgkin (1999)

A d'Offay Gallery

 

 
Finger Rings: From Ancient to Modern (2003)

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum

Written by Diana Scarisbrick and Martin Henig.

Introduction by James Fenton.

 

 

 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2006)

London: Faber and Faber

Selected and introduced by James Fenton.

The reader of this selection of Coleridge's poems may be surprised that the first items presented should be fragments and drafts rather than finished poems, and that there is such duplication as well: two versions of 'Kubla Khan' and both the verse letter to Sara Hutchinson and the 'Dejection' ode, which Coleridge created as a public version of the private epistle.
-- (from the introduction)

 
The New Faber Book of Love Poems (2006)

London: Faber and Faber

Selected and introduced by James Fenton.

The new edition celebrates love poetry originating in the English language, from Wyatt to the present day. It includes blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics, Broadway songs, and a full range of poetic styles from the aristocratic to the popular. Eminently readable and engaging, The New Faber Book of Love Poems presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present day.

 
John Bunyan: The Life and Death of Mr Badman (2007)

London: Hesperus

Foreword by James Fenton.

 

 
D. H. Lawrence: Selected Poems (2008)

Penguin

Selected and introduced by James Fenton.

To purchase the collection, please visit the publisher's website at www.penguin.co.uk. It is also available from Amazon.co.uk.

 
Eric Ambler: Epitaph for a Spy (2009)

Penguin

From the Introduction by James Fenton:
"The job he did on the spy novel -- this is the way he described it years later, in old age, when I interviewed him at his home in Switzerland -- was to take a generally disprized and trashy genre and mike it a thing of some quality."

 

 
William Blake -- Selected Poems (2010)

Faber and Faber

Order direct from the publisher's website at www.faber.co.uk or Amazon.co.uk.

 

 
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (2010)

Everyman's Library

From the Publisher:

Cellini’s autobiography is not merely the record of an extraordinary life but also a dramatic and evocative account of daily life in Renaissance Italy, from its lowest taverns to its highest royal courts.

Order direct from Everyman's Library, Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com

 

 
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