Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World, Harman Oren

Автор: Claire Harman
Название: Fanny Burney
ISBN: 0006550363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550365
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 1979.00 р.
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Описание: On 13 June 1767, her 15th birthday, Fanny Burney made a bonfire of all her works, "with the sincere intention to extinguish for ever in their ashes her scribbling propensity". Fanny was genuinely worried that she might turn into an author, a fate incompatible - for a woman - with respectability. Her hope was in vain. Not only was she to write four novels ("Evelina", "Cecilia", "Camilla" and "The Wanderer"), but she also kept a voluminous diary for the next 70 years and was a prolific letter-writer. Daughter of the eminent music historian Dr Charles Burney; editor of his infamous Memoirs; friend of Sheridan, Garrick, Burke, Boswell and Johnson; second keeper of the robes to George III's Queen Charlotte; wife to a refugee French aristocrat; detained for ten years in revolutionary France; victim of a mastectomy without anaesthetic. Fanny Burney's life was as eventful as any novel. This text is the biography of Fanny Burney, one of the the first truly literary woman novelists in English, who exercised a profound influence on Jane Austen and whose own life, spanning the years 1752 to 1840, embraced the worlds of music, literature, politics, English Court life and the French Revolution.

Автор: Harman Graham
Название: Dante`s Broken Hammer
ISBN: 191092430X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910924303
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Harman Claire
Название: Charlotte Bronte
ISBN: 0307962083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307962089
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2759.00 р.
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Описание: On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine.
Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman s biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition.
Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girls school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as nothing special to him at all. She channeled her torment into her first attempts at a novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention.
Charlotte helped power her sisters work to publication, too. But Emily s "Wuthering Heights" was eclipsed by "Jane Eyre, "which set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain and insignificant heroine? Charlotte Bronte s blazingly intelligent women brimming with hidden passions would transform English literature. And she savored her literary success even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed.
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Charlotte Bronte" is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotte s lifelong struggle to claim love and art for herself, Harman s richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of Bronte s own work."

Автор: Harman Graham
Название: Bruno Latour
ISBN: 0745333990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745333991
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: A biography of Bruno Latour, the sociologist and anthropologist, which focuses on his political philosophy.