Cleopatra

The dazzling life story of the Queen of Egypt, the New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

AvStacy Schiff

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Engelska, 2011

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*The New York Times Bestseller*A dazzling reassessment of the most iconic - and maligned - woman in history.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and ingenuity have been lost.Now, in a masterly return to the classical sources, Pulitzer Prizewinner Stacy Schiff separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.'An inspired combination of carefully parsed texts, new research and pulse-quickening descriptive writing ... Spellbinding' Guardian'Imaginative, energetic, evocative' Daily Telegraph

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-12-31
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448114719
Förlag:Ebury Publishing

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Stacey Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement and she has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2000 Schiff won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Saint-Exupéry: A Biography about Antoine de Saint Exupéry. In 2006 she received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.

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"Under [Schiff's] pen, the mirage of Cleopatra shimmers down the deserts of time and suddenly stands before us, in new and thrilling sharp focus ... full of well researched context and much learned speculation" -- Jan Moir Daily Mail "We see a great queen painted in dazzling colours in the twilight of a dazzling kingdom ... new life is breathed into an indisputably authentic icon" Sunday Times "An inspired combination of carefully parsed texts, new research and pulse-quickening descriptive writing ... formidable and spellbinding achievement" Guardian "[Schiff] has done her homework and writes elegantly and wittily, creating truly evocative word pictures." Independent "Schiff has produced a highly literary, imaginative, coherent narrative, "restoring context" to the sources she delves into in an intelligent way. Her writing is energetic, evocative... She also has an unerring nose for what is interesting" Daily Telegraph