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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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| HERVÉ DUCHÊNE Book Number: 74403 |
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Such marvels as the Mask of Agamemnon and the dazzling treasure of Priam were unearthed, not by your ordinary common or garden archaeologist, but by a German national called Heinrich Schliemann. H...
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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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| KEN RUSSELL Book Number: 74689 |
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Filmmaker Ken Russell made a celebrated BBC Monitor television film on Elgar, the Worcestershire composer. Here is his portrayal as a devoted husband whose career hinges largely on the support of ...
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| RICHARD HOLMES Book Number: 74692 |
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In an assessment of an extraordinary generation of poets and the impact of their work on contemporary culture and society, Richard Holmes' engaging text explores the portraits and the lives of 28 w...
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| PRUDENCE JONES Book Number: 74945 |
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We owe much of our knowledge of Cleopatra to her enemy Octavian, the man who had become Rome's first Emperor Augustus. Cleopatra VII (69-30BC) was the last monarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egyp...
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| NICOLA SHULMAN Book Number: 74960 |
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For Henry VIII, poetry made things happen. It affected his wars, his diplomacy and his many marriages. It was at the root of his fatal attraction to Anne Boleyn, a source of her power and a means...
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| KETIL BJORNSTAD Book Number: 75264 |
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The Expressionist painter Edvard Munch is famous for his claustrophobic canvas "The Scream" and other works evoking fear, despair and jangling nerves, together with the intimate and moving depictio...
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| KELLY DEVRIES Book Number: 75419 |
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In 1428 a young girl from a small French village approached the royal castle of Vaucouleurs with a now famous tale. She said that heavenly voices had told her to seek out the Dauphin of France, Ch...
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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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| ROBERT GOTTLIEB Book Number: 75828 |
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Dull accuracy was not Sarah Bernhardt's strong point. She was 'a complete realist when dealing with her life but a relentless fabulist when recounting it!' Writing her biography must have been re...
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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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| JOHN STUBBS Book Number: 75894 |
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During the turbulent decades of the mid-17th century, conflict between King Charles I and Parliament was threatening to explode. A group of courtiers and army officers known as the Cavaliers emerg...
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| ELIOT WEINBERGER Book Number: 76241 |
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Muhammad is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet composed from the words of Muslims throughout the centuries and drawing on a variety of Islamic sources from throughout the ages. Weinber...
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| IAIN SODEN Book Number: 76473 |
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The experience of exile and captivity, usually as a result of war, was not a rare one for medieval kings and princes, and even on occasion queens and princesses. Many knew the joy of survival in ba...
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| DAVID CARTER Book Number: 76503 |
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What's in a name? Everything, if that name is Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. The associations with this name will be immediate - brutality, perversion, male dominance, sexual depravi...
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| EDITED BY JENNY HARLTEY Book Number: 76349 |
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The 450 letters included here have been cherry-picked from a vast 14,000, to give readers the best essence of the 'Sparkler of Albion'. He was a man with ten times the energy of ordinary mortals. ...
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| HENRY WHITBREAD Book Number: 76690 |
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'Most of us are aware of having a conscience, a guiding instinct that tells us what is right and wrong. But it is also in our nature to have a powerful sense of wonder and a desire for meaning tha...
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| KAREN BOWMAN Book Number: 76823 |
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Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler, warriors, medicine men, seadogs, martyrs, felons like Dick Turpin, wizards, explorers, gentlemen of letters, smugglers, men of science and vision like Humphr...
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| ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Book Number: 76872 |
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For the first time here are the complete translated correspondence of Tocqueville on his first journey to America in 1831. These remarkable letters contain the seeds of his later masterful account...
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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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| KATE COLQUHOUN Book Number: 77170 |
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The details of this account, and all italicised speech, are taken from primary records, including Home Office documents, contemporary newspaper accounts, American archives, court transcripts and Fl...
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| JOHN GUY Book Number: 77222 |
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For 900 years, he has been lauded and damned, venerated and judged. In this living, breathing portrait, he is finally understood. The story of Thomas Becket is the story of an enigma. As the des...
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| BOB THOMPSON Book Number: 76999 |
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Sub-titled 'On the Road With Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier' the book combines the stories of the real hero and his Disney-enhanced afterlife. It is more than just a bold new bi...
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| FRANK FREIDEL Book Number: 77028 |
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If, as Franklin D. Roosevelt's parents had wished, he had grown up to become another Hudson River Valley aristocrat - managing the family estates, meeting civic and charitable obligations, and serv...
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| J. B. BURY Book Number: 77043 |
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The Irish historian and Cambridge professor J. B. Bury (1861-1927) first published this book as The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History in 1905. This fabulous reprint has been edited and ...
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