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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An eloquent writer, Thomas Jefferson was an awkward public speaker and a reluctant candidate; nevertheless he left an indelible presidential legacy. He penned the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that sla ...Show more
Titian's Touch - Art, Magic and Philosophy by Maria Loh; Maria H. Loh
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again. With nothing more than the stroke of a thumb or th ...Show more
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens by Christianson, John Robert
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry, and built one of the most astonishing villas of the late Renaissance, while virtually inventing team research and e ...Show more
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant - a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the most successful military memoirs in American literatu ...Show more
Unmasked (The Secret Lives of Emma #3) by Natasha Walker
Category: Fiction | Series: Secret Lives of Emma
Emma Benson was unlikely ever to be your average housewife. But she never meant any of this to happen...For temptation is all around her, and now her life has hit a crossroads. Can she possibly stay married to David, a man who will never understand her boundless erotic desires? And would he ever forgive ...Show more
Vaughan Williams by Paul Holmes
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This biography draws on letters, diaries and personal reminiscences to tell the story of Vaughan Williams. Williams was heavily involved with the English folk movement, Tudor music and hymns, and his creations combined humour and mysticism.
Verdi by Peter Southwell-Sander
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden
Category: Biography | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's f ...Show more
Victor Hugo by Bradley Stephens
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Victor Hugo is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the Second Empire in exile, he became synonymous with the progre ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT'A gem' SUNDAY TIMES'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively b ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Penguin Illustrated Lives S.
This short biography on Virginia Woolf contains overs 100 images, allowing an immediate understanding of her life, family, friends, home and work.
Vivaldi by John Booth
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.