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Byron
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Harold Nicolson |
Lord Byron's first epic poem, "Childe Harold", was published in 1812. Only 12 years later after a life including exile, marriage and fatherhood, he died aged 36 at Missolonghi in Greece. First writte… |
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Picasso
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Pierre Daix,Jean-Louis Andral,Pablo Picasso |
In 1946, when Picasso received the offer to use one of the great rooms in the castle at Antibes as a studio, he exclaimed enthusiastically: “I'm not only going to paint, I'll decorate the museum too.… |
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Wild Nights!
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Joyce Carol Oates |
Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway---Joyce Carol Oates takes on each of these literary giants in her newest story collection, powerfully and playfully reinven… |
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Dark night
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Martin Edmond |
"In 1984, in the palm grove in Sydney's Botanic Gardens, the artist Colin McCahon went missing. He was found by police early next morning in Centennial Park ... Martin Edmond walks in Colin McCahon's… |
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Los últimos días de García Lorca
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Eduardo Molina Fajardo |
[Reseña Ed. Almuzara][1]
[1]: http://www.editorialalmuzara.com/editorial.php?idioma=1&libro=614 |
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Sailing with Byron from Genoa to Cephalonia
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Donald Prell |
Early in June of 1823, Lord Byron chartered a ship to take him from Genoa to Greece. This is the story of that voyage, which ended a few months later with his death in Cephalonia. It provides a del… |
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Hitler 1936-1945
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Ian Kershaw |
The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time. In this volume, Ian Kershaw introduces Adolf Hitler at the apex of his power, idolized by millions of Germans for bringin… |
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Hitler (Profiles in Power)
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Ian Kershaw |
Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimat… |
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Chopin's Funeral
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Benita Eisler |
"At twenty-one, Chopin fled Russian-occupied Poland for exile in France. He would never see his native country again. With only two public concerts in as many years, he became a star of Parisian soci… |
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Four last songs
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Linda Hutcheon |
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), and Benjamin Britten (1913-76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenge… |
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La última salida de Manuel Azaña
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Federico Jiménez Losantos |
Relato a medio camino entre el libro de historia, el ensayo y la novela de los últimos días de Manuel Azaña (1880-1940). |
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Body of truth
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Callow, Philip.,Philip Callow |
"In November 1919 D. H. Lawrence arrived in Venice, thirty-four years old, a big name with a banned book behind him, scraping by on very little but with a zest for life undiminished by shaky health. … |
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Les derniers jours de Muhammad
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Hela Ouardi |
Médine, juin 632. Sous le soleil accablant de l'Arabie, le temps semble s'être arrêté : le Prophète de l'islam a rendu son dernier souffle. Autour de lui, les fidèles de la nouvelle religion, plongés… |
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The Last Days of Hitler
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H. R. Trevor-Roper |
Late in 1945, Trevor-Roper was appointed by British Intelligence in Germany to investigate conflicting evidence surrounding Hitler’s final days and to produce a definitive report on his death. The au… |
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Bis zur letzten Stunde
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Melissa Müller,Gertraud Junge |
**Until the Final Hour** (German: *Bis zur letzten Stunde*), also published as *Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary* or simply *Hitler's Last Secretary* is a memoir of the last days of Hitl… |
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The Shah's last ride
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William Shawcross |
Chronicles the events leading to the fall of the last reigning monarch of the Peacock Thorne, detailing the excesses of his court, the rise of the Ayatollah, and his abdiction and life as refugee. |
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