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25 produkter
Empress of Rome
The Life of Livia
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity (most notably by Tacitus and Robert Graves) as …
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Häftad, 2015
165 kr
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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed …
Empress of Rome
The Life of Livia
Häftad, 2011
156 kr
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Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity (most notably by Tacitus and Robert Graves) as …
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
E-bok, 2014
102 kr
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Matthew Dennison creates a revealing portrait of the brave and charismatic Vita, in the first biography of her to be written for thirty years.Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed girl whose lonely childhood at Knole inspired enduring feats of …
Queen Victoria
A Life of Contradictions
E-bok, 2013
71 kr
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A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented …
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Ljudbok, 2014
227 kr
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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.In this stunning portrait of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the …
First Iron Lady
A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
Ljudbok, 2017
227 kr
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''A brilliant study of a brilliant woman'' LUCY WORSLEYHistory has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, …
First Iron Lady
A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
E-bok, 2017
70 kr
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'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, …
First Iron Lady
A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
Häftad, 2018
176 kr
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'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEY History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, …
Queen Victoria
A Life of Contradictions
Ljudbok, 2016
190 kr
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A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.Reigning over a lifetime, Queen Victoria embodied the spirit of the contradictory era to which she lent her …
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
Häftad, 2009
312 kr
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Over the Hills and Far Away
The Life of Beatrix Potter
Häftad, 2017
165 kr
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Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the …
Queen
E-bok, 2021
169 kr
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Matthew Dennison''s elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. ''A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen''s life. Dennison is especially good on her childhood... quietly, tactfully, tastefully …
Queen
Häftad, 2022
165 kr
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Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. 'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her childhood... quietly, tactfully, tastefully …
Bloomsbury
Lives and Loves of the Bloomsbury Set, 1904-1941
Inbunden, 2027
401 kr
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The Bloomsbury Group of influential British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, whose most prominent members were Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keyes and Roger Fry, has starkly divided opinion ever since its lofty …
Teller of the Unexpected
The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography
Inbunden, 2022
250 kr
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Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to Dahl's flawed, human core' Country Life 'Crisply done and …
Teller of the Unexpected
The Life of Roald Dahl, An Unofficial Biography
Häftad, 2023
141 kr
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Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to Dahl's flawed, human core' Country Life 'Crisply done and …
Last Princess
The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
E-bok, 2019
143 kr
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Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born – in 1866 – of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended period of mourning for her prematurely …
Last Princess
The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
Häftad, 2021
141 kr
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Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born – in 1866 – of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended period of mourning for her prematurely …
Twelve Caesars
Häftad, 2013
162 kr
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One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve Caesars' - Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, …
