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Cleopatra
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2011
198 kr
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Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. …
The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2016
279 kr
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Witches
Salem, 1692: A History
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2016
192 kr
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'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less …
Vera
(Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both “monumental” ( The Boston Globe ) and “utterly romantic” ( New York magazine), Stacy Schiff’s Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of …
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2023
202 kr
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Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, …
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Av Stacy Schiff
Inbunden, 2022
350 kr
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A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times), Top 10 Books of 2022 (Fresh Air), and One of Oprah Daily's Favourite Books of 2022: A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father- the …
Vera
(Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2000
295 kr
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov’s marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it …
A Great Improvisation
Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2006
252 kr
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In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career ● Michael Douglas stars in Franklin , premiering April 12 only on Apple TV+ "In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins …
Great Improvisation
Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2006
227 kr
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In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career ● Michael Douglas stars in Franklin , premiering April 12 only on Apple TV+ In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an …
Saint-Exupery
A Biography
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2011
147 kr
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A fascinating account of the life of one of the century's great eccentrics - the brilliant Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Born in 1900 of impoverished aristocracy, he swiftly developed a mania for aviation, despite his chaotic mind and total technological incompetence. He flew reconnaissance missions in …
Cleopatra
The dazzling life story of the Queen of Egypt, the New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2011
74 kr
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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 …
Witches
Salem, 1692: A History
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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''An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff''s writing is to die for'' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister''s niece started to scream and convulse. It ended …
Vera
Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov
Av Stacy Schiff
Ljudbok, 2009
417 kr
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Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff''s V├®ra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir …
Kleopatra. Ein Leben - Der Bestseller von Pulitzerpreisträgerin Stacy Schiff!
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2024
124 kr
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Cleopatra
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2020
69 kr
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Biografa câștigătoare a Premiului Pulitzer aduce la viață una dintre cele mai fascinante femei din istoria lumii: Cleopatra, ultima regină a Egiptului. Palatul ei strălucea fiind împodobit cu onix, granate și aur, dar mustea de intrigi politice și sexuale. Peste toate acestea, Cleopatra era un …
Cleopatra
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2023
85 kr
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Stacy Schiff plasma en Cleopatra. Una vida el resultado de una investigación meticulosa a través de la cual reconstruye de forma aguda y fascinante la vida de Cleopatra como una de las principales protagonistas de la época helenista. Su ojo crítico cuestiona y recontextualiza todo lo que se creía …
Las brujas
Sospecha, traición e histeria en Salem, 1692
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2024
89 kr
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Todo comenzó en 1692, durante un invierno excepcionalmente crudo en Massachusetts, con los gritos y las convulsiones de la hija de un ministro. El pánico estalló por todo el pueblo e involucró a los hombres y a los políticos más prominentes de la colonia. Padres e hijos acusaron a esposas y …
Cleopatra book summary
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2023
40 kr
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The importance of this book comes from his choice of a stage of modern Russian history, since two thousand, the year in which Vladimir Putin Putin took over the presidency of Russia, until the year two thousand and fifteen. The stage "in which the diversity of faces was absent, and the only …
Kleopatra
Av Stacy Schiff
Ljudbok, 2023
206 kr
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Myyttisen Kleopatran koko tarina. Faaraoiden sukuun syntynyt Kleopatra hallitsi yli puolet elämästään Egyptin valtakuntaa. Hän johti armeijaa, keksi antaa rahalle arvon ja painatti kasvonsa roomalaiseen kolikkoon. Hän oli miellyttävä, hauska ja kielitaitoinen, ja hänen samettista ääntään …
Kleopatra
Av Stacy Schiff
E-bok, 2023
194 kr
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Myyttisen Kleopatran koko tarina. Faaraoiden sukuun syntynyt Kleopatra hallitsi yli puolet elämästään Egyptin valtakuntaa. Hän johti armeijaa, keksi antaa rahalle arvon ja painatti kasvonsa roomalaiseen kolikkoon. Hän oli miellyttävä, hauska ja kielitaitoinen, ja hänen samettista ääntään …
Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of America
Franklin's French Adventure 1776-85
Av Stacy Schiff
Häftad, 2006
122 kr
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Six months after America declared her independence, Congress dispatched Benjamin Franklin to France to solicit aid and arms for the upcoming fight. He was seventy years old, possessed of the most rudimentary French and had no diplomatic training. But this most remarkable of envoys was also among …
