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 | Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (Weldon, Fay)
Wise, sharp, informative . . . shrewd and funny - A. S. Byatt, Times Literary Supplement Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern wr...
Manufacturer: Basic Books
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 | Eminent Victorians
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932) has written an extremely unconventional collection of biographical sketches, in which the mental and spiritual lives of the subjects are displayed. Strachey has chosen to examine the Victorian era through the lives of...
Manufacturer: Book Jungle
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 | The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock’s long life and b...
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T)
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 | Yale English Monarchs - Richard I (The English Monarchs Series)
In this new account of Richard the Lionheart's reign, John Gillingham scrutinises the king's fluctuating reputation over the centuries and provides a convincing revised interpretation. Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a neglectful king, Richard I wa...
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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 | The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey
In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who...
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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 | Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797
The most authoritative and captivating account ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence
Among military and naval commanders, Horatio Nelson stands as one of the finest exa...
Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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 | Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love
This title presents the turbulent life and loves of Henry VIII's sixth wife. Romantic, chaotic, and terrifying, Catherine Parr's life unfolded like a romance novel. Wed at 17 to the grandson of a c...
Manufacturer: The History Press
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 | The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life
"Deeply researched, valuable."
–The New York Times Book Review "A shocker . . . stunning . . . absolutely hypnotic. . . . A world of beautiful houses, ceaseless travel, trendsetting fashion, and powerful figures. . . . Fascinating rev...
Manufacturer: Wiley
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