Leo Damrosch

Eternity's Sunrise is a richly illustrated portrait where a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake’s creative work while telling the story of his life. William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness, he created a profoundly original symbolic...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch “Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness,’ that ‘joyful eagerness’ for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova—and reading about him.”—Gregory Dowling, Wall Street Journal “A nuanced, deftly contextualized biography of an adventurer, an opportunist, and a man of voracious appetites. . . . Another...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch “The excellence of Leo Damrosch’s energetic biography is that it reveals so many other dimensions of this remarkable man: pioneering autobiographer, questioner of received ideas, traveller through high culture and low.”—Jonathan Bate, author of Radical Wordsworth Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment’s...

The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern. Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 "Damrosch brings the Club’s redoubtable personalities—the brilliant minds, the jousting...

From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction. This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals much about a writer that we think we knew. . . . Dazzling.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) is famed for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of...

Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography: The life of satirist Jonathan Swift, written by a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature. “Superb. . . . Damrosch’s outstanding book has raised Swift’s provocative genius to life.” —Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the...