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Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
Category: History | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Charles Darwin by J. David Archibald
Category: Science | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
A fresh account of Charles Darwin's rich personal and professional lives, well beyond On the Origin of Species. In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. With this bedrock of biology books, Darwin carved a new origin-story for all life: evolution rather than creation. But this singl ...Show more
Charles Dickens (Great Lives) by Jane Smiley
Category: Classics | Series: Lives Ser.
Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her admirable contribution to Weidenfeld's series of short biographies, deals briskly with Dickens's career and w ...Show more
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his ...Show more
Cleopatra - Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacyThe siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyon ...Show more
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
Category: No Category | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
Crassus - The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic a ...Show more
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military gloryMarcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic am ...Show more
Crazy Horse - A Life by Larry McMurtry
Category: No Category | Series: Lives Ser.
In the story of the life of a seminal figure of American history, "Crazy Horse" strips away the tall tales to reveal the essence of this brilliant, ascetic warrior-hero.Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Crocodile the Gardener by Anna Gkoutzouri (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: Who Lives Here? Ser.
Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister by John Edwards
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
D H Lawrence (the Savage Pilgrim) by C. Carswell
Category: Classics | Series: Literary Lives Ser.
Traces D H Lawrence's troubled existence back to his working-class origins and gives a description of his life during the First World War after The Rainbow had been banned, when no-one would publish his work, and he became desperately poor.