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Biographies of pre-20th century characters like Nelson, Napoleon to Buddha or Ghengis Khan.
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| FRANK HARRIS Book Number: 56215 |
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First published in 1909 as 'The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life Story' this is a lively biography of England's and arguably the world's greatest playwright and poet by an ardent admirer. A pro...
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| ELIZABETH GASKELL Book Number: 56221 |
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In devoting two years of her own life to 'The Life of Charlotte Brontë', Elizabeth Gaskell wrote what with good reason has been held up as ‘the first successful biography of a woman by a woman’. Ch...
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| MATHILDE BLIND Book Number: 56224 |
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This is the first full-length biography of George Eliot, published just three years after her death, by a freethinking German-Jewish émigré and proto-feminist: the first to tackle the Lewes relatio...
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| WASHINGTON IRVING Book Number: 56597 |
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According to Mohammed, the one true religion was revealed to five great prophets before him - Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. But each time their message was ignored and people chose to worsh...
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| KEN RUSSELL Book Number: 74688 |
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A companion to Elgar and Delius code 74689, Ken Russell long ago blew apart the notion that classical composers were as solemn in their private lives as in their music. These new novel-biographies...
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| MAX ADAMS Book Number: 75426 |
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In an intriguing look at the impact on Britain of the first industrial revolution, the author details the richly varied lives of four very different men. They are William Martin an inventor, Richa...
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| SUZANNAH DUNN Book Number: 75949 |
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All that is known about Katherine Filliol - or Filioll or Fillol, since spelling during the 16th century was often arbitrary - is that, by the time her father's will was written in 1527, her marria...
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| SIAN REES Book Number: 76876 |
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What does the name "Moll Flanders" bring to mind? We will bet that it has little to do the actuality. For instance, a great many people are under the impression that she was a real person. She was ...
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| JOHN M. BARRY Book Number: 76933 |
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In a masterful and penetrating book, the author layers biography and history, ranging widely across questions of politics, religion and ideology, and culminating in a definition of the very princip...
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| CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT Book Number: 77646 |
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'If I were to live a hundred years and write three novels in each, I should never be so proud of any of them as I am of Pickwick; feeling as I do, that it has made its own way, and hoping, as I mus...
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| LISA HILTON Book Number: 77897 |
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Elizabeth I is perhaps the Queen who fascinates and enthrals us the most. We picture her as a strong woman in her splendid, richly-embroidered gowns with a large lace ruff around her neck, her red ...
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| JOHN AUBREY Book Number: 78659 |
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A companion to Scientific Lives code 78685, antiquary and biographer John Aubrey (1626-97), was acquainted with the most distinguished writers, politicians and aristocrats of his time. The gentlem...
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| ROMAN FRISTER Book Number: 80859 |
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Following a surprise find of documents in the flea market at Jaffa, the author lovingly reconstructs the lives of five generations of the Jewish family Levy, based mainly in Pomeranian towns which ...
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| BEN WILSON Book Number: 80872 |
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Alexander Pope said 'satire's my weapon', and here the first of many illustrations is of William Hone and George Cruikshank, the author and the artist, and their fight for a free press. It is an e...
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| PERRY GAUCI Book Number: 80954 |
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Sub-titled 'First Prime Minister of the London Empire' this is the first-ever biography of William Beckford to provide a unique look at 18th century British history from the perspective of the colo...
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| PAOLO DE RUGGIERO Book Number: 81246 |
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The "plain blunt man" of the title is Shakespeare's description of the romantic hero of Antony and Cleopatra. But does this picture match up to the reality? Ruggiero shows that in the eyes of histo...
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| IAN GRAHAM Book Number: 81233 |
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With stories from the hetaerae of ancient Greece, educated, unmarried decision-making women, the cortigiani onesti of 16th century Venice, the oiran of Edo-period Japan, the demimondaines of 19th c...
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| EVELYN FARR Book Number: 81368 |
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Many biographers have obscured the true nature of the relationship of this untold love story. The tragic life of Marie-Antoinette, the last Queen of France, known as the 'Austrian whore' and accus...
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| LISA HILTON Book Number: 81767 |
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Elizabeth I is perhaps the Queen who fascinates and enthrals us the most. We picture her as a strong woman in her splendid, richly-embroidered gowns with a large lace ruff around her neck, her red ...
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| ISABELLA L. BIRD Book Number: 81773 |
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Isabella Lucy Bird published anonymously her first book The English Woman in America in 1856. She was a 19th century explorer, writer and natural historian and her father gave her £100 in 1854 to ...
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| DOUGLAS STARR Book Number: 81792 |
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"The Killer of Little Shepherds" was a French serial killer whose homicidal spree came a little after our own Jack the Ripper and he actually took more lives than the Whitechapel murderer - but the...
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| DIANNE HALES Book Number: 81797 |
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She is one of the most famous women in the world, and every year millions flock to see her portrait - but what do we actually know about her? The author sets out to unearth the story of Mona Lisa G...
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| CAROLLY ERICKSON Book Number: 81811 |
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When the young Catherine of Aragon was sent from Spain to marry the juvenile weak English Prince Arthur she loved him from first sight, and was full of hope and anticipation for a lengthy, happy ma...
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| JANICE HADLOW Book Number: 81974 |
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A magnificent biography of a marriage between King George III and Queen Charlotte, of love and duty, madness and betrayal. His late-life illness made him known as 'the Mad King', but King George I...
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| RODNEY BOLT Book Number: 82139 |
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Sub-titled the extraordinary adventures of the man behind Mozart, here is a man who lived in four cities, Venice, Vienna, London and New York, at fascinating moments in their histories. Rather tha...
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| RANULPH FIENNES Book Number: 82228 |
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Fiennes is a world-famous arctic explorer who is also the oldest Briton to reach the summit of Everest. He is has some illustrious ancestors, being descended from Count Eustace of Boulogne, William...
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| ANNE WHITEHEAD Book Number: 82300 |
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A historical titan - Napoleon Bonaparte compared himself to Prometheus as he fell from war hero to exile. His military reputation is notorious, yet it is the lesser explored relationship with the B...
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| PHILIP BOBBITT Book Number: 82302 |
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The Prince by Machiavelli is often described as a great book that changed the world. Was he a Christian or a Pagan? Did he give priority to the law giver or the war fighter? Was he the first pol...
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| JOHN MATTHEWS Book Number: 82380 |
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'...Gawain, with his old curteisye, thought he were come ageyn out of Fairye...' - Chaucer from the Squire's Tale. Sir Gawain, the nephew of King Arthur, was once the most important knight at Arth...
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| THOMAS 'BUCK JERUSALEM' WHALEY Book Number: 82394 |
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First published in 1906, here is a superb journal of a man variously described as a rake, a man-about-town, and a gambler. 'The notes I have made and the various Journals I have kept of my voyages...
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