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12 produkter
Reckoning
The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Häftad, 2002
176 kr
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In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as dubious.For the first time tracing Marlowe's …
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Flights of the Mind
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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Leonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance genius'? What is the real story behind his elusive masterpieces and tantalizing notebooks? Prize-winning author Charles …
Traces Remain
Essays and Explorations
Häftad, 2012
141 kr
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History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The Reckoning, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, …
Lodger
Shakespeare on Silver Street
Häftad, 2008
179 kr
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In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry – but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist’s famously obscure life-story. Charles …
Lodger
Shakespeare on Silver Street
E-bok, 2008
113 kr
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In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry – but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist’s famously obscure life-story. Charles …
Traces Remain
Essays and Explorations
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time.His subjects range from a murder-case in Renaissance Rome to the …
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Flights of the Mind
E-bok, 2005
144 kr
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Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in …
Borderlines
A Journey in Thailand and Burma
Häftad, 2021
156 kr
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In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way. When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand, on the night train north with his tales of …
Somebody Else
Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91
Häftad, 2021
163 kr
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Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and in the dogdays of August 1880 he disembarked …
LEONARDO DA VINCI.Flights of the Mind
E-bok, 2017
113 kr
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Pered vami samaya polnaya biografiya Leonardo da Vinchi, velichajshego geniya ehpohi Vozrozhdeniya. Hotya ego dostizheniya i tvoreniya na protyazhenii vekov vyzyvali vseobshchee voskhishchenie, ehtot chelovek vsegda ostavalsya na udivlenie zakrytym, chto vo vse vremena porozhdalo mnogochislennye …
