505 Results for : biographer
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Mad about Shakespeare
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives.- Shop: buecher
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Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room (eBook, ePUB)
'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 17.49 EUR excl. shipping
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Roald Dahl Collected Stories
Roald Dahl is well known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the tradition of Saki. This volume includes the stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.- Shop: buecher
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Rita Angus
A comprehensive catalogue featuring all the works appearing in the show plus major essays by Angus's biographer Jill Trevelyan and Adrian Locke, Senior Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, who originally commissioned the exhibition, later cancelled due to Covid 19.- Shop: buecher
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The Swimming-Pool Library
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself - the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer.- Shop: buecher
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Queen Victoria's Buckingham Palace
Amanda Foreman is a well-known historian and biographer. Her books include Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and The World Made by Women. Lucy Peter is Assistant Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust. She is co-author of Portrait of the Artist and Royal Childhood.- Shop: buecher
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The Autobiography of a Biographer: Thalia Book Club , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min
Symphony Space invited three renowned biographers, James Atlas, Edmund Morris and Stacy Schiff, to reveal the fascinating, all-absorbing process of researching and writing another person's life story. The conversation delved deeply into the challenges the authors encountered and the pleasures they enjoyed in writing the lives of Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Vera Nabakov and Saul Bellow, as well as the difficulty of getting past the "unreliable narrator." This special event was recorded live as part of the Thalia Book Club series as Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Symphony Space. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/thal/000019/sp_thal_000019_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist and gastronome.With this edition by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, The Travels of Ibn Battutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.- Shop: buecher
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From Puzzles to Portraits
From Puzzles to Portraits ab 50.99 € als Taschenbuch: Problems of a Literary Biographer. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,- Shop: hugendubel
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Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 902min
Prize-winning historian and biographer, Carolly Erickson has created an eminently readable biography that recognizes the humanity of Great Catherine—Empress of Russia—with her majesty and immense capability. Dispelling some of the myths surrounding her voracious sexual appetite, the biographer portrays Catherine as a lonely woman far ahead of her time—achieving greatness in an era when women were executed on a husband’s whim. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Davina Porter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005285/bk_reco_005285_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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