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Camille Pissarro - The Audacity of Impressionism (HB) by Anka Muhlstein; Adriana Hunter (Translator)
Category: Art and Design
From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his ...Show more
Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart: The Perils of Marriage by Anka Muhlstein
Category: History
Dual biography investigates perennial question for any ambitious woman: to marry or not to marry. In this major double biography, Anka Muhlstein examines the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. Uniquely at this time, both of the thrones of the British Isles we ...Show more
Monsieur Proust's Library - Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcel Proust by Anka Muhlstein
Category: Languages and Reference
CELEBRATING THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF MARCEL PROUST "Proust not only brought to the fore the beauty of centuries past but also set the scene for the era of modernism. This genius could not have so gloriously entered the twentieth century had he not proudly stood on the shoulders of giants." ...Show more
The Pen and the Brush by Anka Muhlstein
Category: Languages and Reference
With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Balzac's Omelette (Other Press, 2011) and Monsieur Proust's Library (Other Press, 2015), Anka Muhlstein's Pen And Brush revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huys ...Show more
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