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Brand: Elizabeth Longford
EAN: 9788866974963
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Regno Unito, 1837. Alla morte dello zio Guglielmo IV, Vittoria sale al trono. Ha solo 18 anni e ancora non sa che è destinata a regnare fino al 1901 — il suo regno, di ben 63 anni, sarà il secondo più lungo di tutta la storia britannica, superato solo dalla sua trisnipote Elisabetta II, e prenderà il nome di epoca vittoriana. Nel 1840 Vittoria sposa il cugino di primo grado, il principe Alberto di Sassonia-Coburgo-Gotha, e per i successivi vent'anni i due sono inseparabili. Quando Alberto muore, nel 1861, il dolore opprimente porta Vittoria a ritirarsi quasi del tutto dalla vita pubblica per diversi anni. La percezione di una mancanza rispetto ai doveri pubblici, unita alle voci sulla relazione con il suo cameriere scozzese, John Brown, le valgono crescenti critiche. Riportata alla ribalta da Benjamin Disraeli, riprende con vigore gli impegni politici fino alla morte, avvenuta nel 1901. Attingendo dai diari della regina Vittoria, la biografia di Elizabeth Longford, ormai divenuta un classico, rievoca i contrasti e le curiosità di un'epoca passata, riuscendo a mostrare la regina, oltre l'effigie severa e consumata dal tempo, quale donna in carne e ossa che si innervosiva, amava e aveva paura.

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Brand: Elizabeth Longford
EAN: 9788866975076
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Mai nessun poeta inglese ebbe in Europa una tale e rapida popolarità come la ebbe Lord Byron. La sua influenza nella letteratura europea fu immensa, tanto da rappresentare un modello cui s’ispirò il Romanticismo francese e da divenire padre spirituale del poeta tedesco Heinrich Heine, nonché indiscusso maestro di poesia per la Russia, la Spagna e l’Italia. La popolarità gli derivò indubbiamente dalla sua poesia, che rappresentava lo spirito di un’epoca, e dai personaggi delle sue opere, ribelli e malinconici, ma anche dall’impegno politico nella Carboneria italiana e nell’insurrezione greca. Nella sua biografia, Elizabeth Longford traccia passo passo la vita di uno dei personaggi più affascinanti del suo tempo, restituendoci un affresco fedele e superando le false luci ottocentesche che da sempre hanno deformato la figura di Byron.

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Brand: Res Gestae
EAN: 9788866975076
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Byron. Il Poeta Romantico Della Liberta' - Longford Elizabeth - Res Gestae

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Brand: Samanth Subramanian
EAN: 9781786492845
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.\n\nShortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the British Society for the History of Science Hughes Prize.\n\n'A wonderful book about one of the most important, brilliant and flawed scientists of the 20th century.' Peter Frankopan\n\n'Superb' Matt Ridley, The Times\n\n'Fascinating... The best Haldane biography yet.' New York Times\n\n\nJ.B.S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius, never lacking for drama. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers thought him a polymath; one student called him 'the last man who knew all there was to be known'.\n\nBeginning in the 1930s, Haldane was also a staunch Communist - a stance that enhanced his public profile, led him into trouble, and even drew suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously on science and politics for the layman, in newspapers and magazines, and he gave speeches in town halls and on the radio, all of which made him, in his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. Arthur C. Clarke called Haldane 'the most brilliant science popularizer of his generation'. He frequently narrated aspects of his life: of his childhood, as the son of a famous scientist; of his time in the trenches in the First World War and in Spain during the Civil War; of his experiments upon himself; of his secret research for the British Admiralty; of his final move to India, in 1957. \n\nA Dominant Character unpacks Haldane's boisterous life in detail, and it examines the questions he raised about the intersections of genetics and politics - questions that resonate all the more strongly today.

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Brand: John Bew
EAN: 9781780879925
Categoria: Libri e riviste

**WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING**\n**WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY**\n*Book of the year: The Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard*\n'Outstanding . . . We still live in the society that was shaped by Clement Attlee' Robert Harris, Sunday Times\n'The best book in the field of British politics' Philip Collins, The Times\n'Easily the best single-volume, cradle-to-grave life of Clement Attlee yet written' Andrew Roberts\n\nClement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the Empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age, but an emblem of it; and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the twentieth century. \n\nHere, Bew pierces Attlee's reticence to examine the intellect and beliefs of Britain's greatest - and least appreciated - peacetime prime minister. This edition includes a new preface by the author in response to the 2017 general election.

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Brand: Samanth Subramanian
EAN: 9781786492814
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.\n\nShortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize & the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.\n\n'A wonderful book about one of the most important, brilliant and flawed scientists of the 20th century.' Peter Frankopan\n\n'Superb' Matt Ridley, The Times\n\n'Fascinating... The best Haldane biography yet.' New York Times\n\n\nJ.B.S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius, never lacking for drama. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers thought him a polymath; one student called him 'the last man who knew all there was to be known'.\n\nBeginning in the 1930s, Haldane was also a staunch Communist - a stance that enhanced his public profile, led him into trouble, and even drew suspicions that he was spying for the Soviets. He wrote copiously on science and politics for the layman, in newspapers and magazines, and he gave speeches in town halls and on the radio, all of which made him, in his day, as famous in Britain as Einstein. Arthur C. Clarke called Haldane 'the most brilliant science popularizer of his generation'. He frequently narrated aspects of his life: of his childhood, as the son of a famous scientist; of his time in the trenches in the First World War and in Spain during the Civil War; of his experiments upon himself; of his secret research for the British Admiralty; of his final move to India, in 1957. \n\nA Dominant Character unpacks Haldane's boisterous life in detail, and it examines the questions he raised about the intersections of genetics and politics - questions that resonate all the more strongly today.

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Brand: Giles Tremlett
EAN: 9781408854068
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Packed with vivid character sketches and lyrical description, Tremlett has told a gripping story, full of beauty and darkness The Times\n\nWINNER OF THE 2018 ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE\n\nIn 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of Castile, the largest and strongest kingdom in Spain. Ahead of her lay the considerable challenge not only of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major European kingdom that was riddled with crime, corruption, and violent political factionism. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon was crucial to her success, bringing together as it did two kingdoms, but it was a royal partnership in which Isabella more than held her own. Her pivotal reign was long and transformative, uniting Spain and laying the foundations not just of modern Spain, but of the one of the world’s greatest empires. \nWith authority and flair, acclaimed historian Giles Tremlett Tremlett relates the story of this legendary, if controversial, first initiate in a small club of great European queens that includes Elizabeth I of England, Russia's Catherine the Great, and Britain's Queen Victoria.

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Brand: Julian Jackson
EAN: 9780141049533
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du Touquet\nA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR\n'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times\n\nIn six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Petain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history.\n\nFor the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts.\n\nJulian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.

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Brand: Mark Bostridge
EAN: 9780241989227
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography\n 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail\n\n Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal and one that is permanently lodged in our national consciousness. But the awesome scale of her achievements over the course of her 90 years is infinitely more troubling - and inspiring - than this mythical simplification.\n\n From her tireless campaigning and staggering intellectual abilities to her tortured relationship with her sister and her distressing medical condition, this vivid and immensely readable biography draws on a wealth of unpublished material and previously unseen family papers, disentangling the myth from the reality and reinvigorating with new life one of the most iconic figures in modern British history.\n\n'Enthralling' Guardian\n\n'Excellent' Spectator\n\n'Hugely readable' Lancet\n\n 'Gripping and faultless' Observer, Books of the Year\n\n 'Remarkable. A subtle, scholarly and immensely readable portrait. Scrupulous, thoughtful and clear-eyed. A masterly achievement' Financial Times\n\n 'It will not be superseded for generations to come' Sunday Telegraph

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Brand: Andrew Gailey
EAN: 9781444792454
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016\n\nFrederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the two most exalted positions available under the Crown, but prior to this his achievements as a British ambassador included restoring order to sectarian conflict in Syria, helping to keep Canada British, paving the way for the annexation of Egypt and preventing war from breaking out on India's North-West Frontier.\n\nDufferin was much more than a diplomat and politician, however: he was a leading Irish landlord, an adventurer and a travel writer whose Letters from High Latitudes proved a publishing sensation. He also became a celebrity of the time, and in his attempts to sustain his reputation he became trapped by his own inventions, thereafter living his public life in fear of exposure. Ingenuity, ability and charm usually saved the day, yet in the end catastrophe struck in the form of the greatest City scandal for forty years and the death of his heir in the Boer War.\n\nWith unique access to the family archive at Clandeboye, Andrew Gailey presents a full biography of the figure once referred to as the 'most popular man in Europe'.

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Brand: Leanda De Lisle
EAN: 9781529111040
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective\n\nA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE\n\nHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most reviled consort in British history. Condemned as the 'Popish brat of France' and a 'notorious whore', she remains in popular memory the woman who turned the king Catholic - so causing a civil war - and a cruel and bigoted mother.\n\nLeanda de Lisle unpicks these myths to reveal a very different queen. We meet a new bride who enjoyed annoying her uptight husband, who was a passionate advocate for the female voice in public affairs and who, when civil war came, proved crucial to Charles's campaign. The image of the Restoration queen as an irrelevant crone is replaced with Henrietta Maria as an influential 'phoenix queen'. It is time to look again at this despised queen and judge if she is not in fact one of our most remarkable.\n\n\n'Brilliantly written, mesmerising, superb scholarship and totally immersive... A total game changer' KATE WILLIAMS, author of Rival Queens\n\n'This is revisionist history at its absolute best' ANDREW ROBERTS author of Churchill\n\n'Beautifully written and endlessly fascinating' ALEXANDER LARMAN author of The Crown in Crisis\n\n'Popular history of the finest kind' RONALD HUTTON author of The Witch

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Brand: Gareth Stedman Jones
EAN: 9780141024806
Categoria: Libri e riviste

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017\n\n'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers\n\nAs the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political, economic, religious and intellectual challenges. Distances shrank, new towns sprang up, and ingenious inventions transformed the industrial landscape. It was an era dominated by new ideas about God, human capacities, industry, revolution, empires and political systems - and above all, the shape of the future.\n\nOne of the most distinctive and arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx, the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland and a man whose entire life was devoted to making sense of the hopes and fears of the nineteenth century world. Gareth Stedman Jones's impressive biography explores how Marx came to his revolutionary ideas in an age of intellectual ferment, and the impact they had on his times. In a world where so many things were changing so fast, would the coming age belong to those enthralled by the events which had brought this world into being, or to those who feared and loathed it?\n\nThis remarkable book allows the reader to understand as never before the world of ideas which shaped Marx's world - and in turn made Marx shape our own.

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Brand: Helen Carr
EAN: 9780861543182
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021\n\n\n\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY\n\n\n\n'The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.' Dan Jones\n\n\n\nSon of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all the Tudors. Always close to the English throne, John of Gaunt left a complex legacy. Too rich, too powerful, too haughty... did he have his eye on his nephew's throne? Why was he such a focus of hate in the Peasants' Revolt? In examining the life of a pivotal medieval figure, Helen Carr paints a revealing portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, patronised the arts, ran huge risks to pursue the woman he loved... and, according to Shakespeare, gave the most beautiful of all speeches on England.

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Brand: Lyndal Roper
EAN: 9781784703448
Categoria: Libri e riviste

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 \nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017\n\n'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. Evans\n\nWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town in 1517, he set off a process that changed the Western world for ever.\n\nWithin a few years Luther’s ideas had spread like wildfire. His attempts to reform Christianity by returning it to its biblical roots split the Western Church, divided Europe and polarised people’s beliefs, leading to religious persecution, social unrest and war; and in the long run his ideas would help break the grip of religion on every sphere of life.\n\nYet Luther was a deeply flawed human being: a fervent believer tormented by spiritual doubts; a prolific writer whose translation of the Bible would shape the German language yet whose attacks on his opponents were vicious and foul-mouthed; a married ex-monk who liberated human sexuality from the stigma of sin but who insisted that women should know their place; a religious fundamentalist, Jew-hater and political reactionary who called ‘for the private and public murder of the peasants’ who had risen against their lords in response to his teaching. And perhaps surprisingly, the man who helped create in the modern world was not modern himself: for him the devil was not a figure of speech but a real, physical presence.\n\nAs an acclaimed historian, Lyndal Roper explains how Luther’s impact can only be understood against the background of the times. As a brilliant biographer, she gives us the flesh-and-blood figure. She reveals the often contradictory psychological forces that drove Luther forward and the dynamics they unleashed, which turned a small act of protest into a battle against the power of the Church.\n\nA New Statesman, Spectator, History Today, Guardian and Sunday Times Book of the Year

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