Christmas: A Biography, Paperback - Judith Flanders

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The author of The Victorian House and The Victorian City reveals details of Christmas past, from mummers' plays to the invention of Sellotape, debu...

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

Reducere. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world.A Place for Everything is the first-ever history ...

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Reducere. DescriptionOrlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in p...

Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off...

Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the ...

Reducere. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, diaries, and personal papers, Weaver brings alive the legend of Italian actress Eleanor Duse, one of th...

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`We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, le...

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Reducere. The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's...

Reducere. The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD ...

This is the first comprehensive biography in half a century of John Locke -“a man of versatile mind, fitted for whatever you shall undertake”, as o...

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Reducere. At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from...

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The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic figure.

'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fu...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big ...

Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.

As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse a...

Written by one of the world's preeminent authorities on Kierkegard, this biography is the first to reveal the delicate imbrication of Kierkegard's ...

Reducere. This work is the story of the remarkable African American leader who led the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906 and is credited for launch...

Reducere. Cowie's cinematically literate biography balances a vivid portrait of Francis Ford Coppola with jargon-free analysis of his films.--Choice By 1982 ...

Reducere. Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped ...

Reducere. The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Afr...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling wat...

Intoxicated by the promise of a promotion, Charles Singular for once allows himself a small extravagance: he buys a bowler hat. But there's a probl...

Reducere. Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twent...

Reducere. Stanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed filmsPath of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shi...

Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for...

Reducere. A biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest fashion icons, reissued to coincide with the biopic Coco avant Chanel.

* The definitive biography of the philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). * In writing this biography, Benoit Peeters talked to over a hundred ind...

John Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republi...

Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jea...

From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simu...

A no-holds-barred biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel...

Reducere. The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses h...

A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.

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