Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK`s Forgotten Sister, Byrne Paula

Автор: Byrne Paula
Название: Real Jane Austen
ISBN: 0007358342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007358342
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne`s landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.

Автор: Byrne Paula
Название: Mad World
ISBN: 0007243774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007243778
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England`s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, `Brideshead Revisited`.

Автор: Byrne Paula
Название: Dido Belle
ISBN: 0062310771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062310774
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 1566.00 р.
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The sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode--a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady.

The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. Growing up in his lavish estate, Dido was raised as a sister and companion to her white cousin, Elizabeth. When a joint portrait of the girls, commissioned by Mansfield, was unveiled, eighteenth-century England was shocked to see a black woman and white woman depicted as equals. Inspired by the painting, Belle vividly brings to life this extraordinary woman caught between two worlds, and illuminates the great civil rights question of her age: the fight to end slavery.

Belle includes 20 pages of black-and-white photos.