Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography, Paperback - Jean Harvey Baker

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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...

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

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