Holroyd

There would then be in it: first, the house of Holroyd, which is all right; then, Mr. Charles Gould, a citizen of Costaguana, who is also all right; and, lastly, the Government of the

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

There would then be in it: first, the house of Holroyd, which is all right; then, Mr. Charles Gould, a citizen of Costaguana, who is also all right; and, lastly, the Government of the

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

There would then be in it: first, the house of Holroyd, which is all right; then,

Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

'Holroyd's dead, poor fellow, at the bottom of the Indian Ocean somewhere.

The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895

In 1970, Mr. Holroyd saw Rodin's bust of the Edwardian beauty Eve Fairfax while doing research, and the face fascinated him: "She appeared serene, sometimes she seemed clothed in a lingering air of melancholy and her sorrowful countenance gained a strange authority."

Gift Guide: Best of Biography Carl Rollyson 2011

Rotherham's new signing Chris Holroyd played for three teams last season, Brighton, Stevenage and Bury, begins David Williams.

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"Let's face it, they are still going to go for a very low-interest-rate environment, which still creates big inflationary concerns," said Robert Holroyd , director of Commodity Strategies AG, a $200 million commodity fund.

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Rotherham's new signing Chris Holroyd played for three teams last season, Brighton, Stevenage and Bury, begins David Williams.

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None is better than "A Book of Secrets" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 258 pages, $26) , a romance of the biographer's quest—what Mr. Holroyd describes as "an intense involvement with absent people from the past," in this case with English politician Ernest Beckett (1856-1917) and the women he loved.

Gift Guide: Best of Biography Carl Rollyson 2011

Michael Holroyd is a great biographer, but his most lasting works will be his less monumental efforts: those creative smaller works that often star the biographer rather than the subject.

Gift Guide: Best of Biography Carl Rollyson 2011