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Suetonius: Diuus Claudius
The first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing...
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Alene på scenen. Per Aabel og tekstene hans
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Boka presenterer oppleseren og entertaineren Per Aabel og inneholder et utvalg av Aabels favorittekster. Den forteller om Aabels forhold til å lese...
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Hegel: A Biography
One of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most...
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Kierkegaard: A Biography
Written by one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Kierkegaard, this biography is the first to reveal the delicate imbrication of...
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The Sovereigns
This memoir is a moving testament to the power of family. The Lucas clan was a close-knit, successful family of rural German Jews--butchers and meat...
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Suetonius: Diuus Claudius
The first-century emperor Claudius did not leave the fledgling Roman Empire as he had found it: his contribution was to turn its developing...
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Cash: The autobiography
This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of his remarkable...
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The Patience of Ice
Filled with awe at the improbable, incomprehensible trajectory of human experience, Renate Wood ponders history, memory, and family. Beginning with...
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Anton Chekhov: A Life
"Without question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and like to remain so for a very long time to come. . . . [Rayfield] captures a likeness...
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Molière: A Theatrical Life
In this biography, Virginia Scott locates Molière’s life and work in the social, literary and theatrical contexts of the period. She offers a...
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George Eliot – The Last Victorian
This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular,...
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Not the Germans Alone
On the eve of D-Day, Isaac Levendel's mother left her hiding place on a farm in southern France and never returned. After 40 years of silence and...
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John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
John Barrymore’s Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919–20 and 1922–23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of...
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Hobbes: A Biography
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) is recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his...
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Wayward Threads
Wayward Threads is the story of Robert Goldmann's youth in Reinheim, a small German village; his experience in the early Nazi years in Frankfurt;...
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Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
"Lively and detailed." --Michael Hofmann, New York Times Book Review
"What Freedman's book does, and more thoroughly than any...
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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political...
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John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
John Barrymore’s Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919–20 and 1922–23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of...
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John Fernström, tonsättare i folkhemmets tid
John Fernström (1897--1961) blev en av sin generations mest produktiva tonsättare med bland annat tolv symfonier, flera solokonserter och åtta...
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Shayndl and Salomea
At the age of fifty and faced with severe depression, Salomea Genin began to write about her family's history. From stories both told and untold,...
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Mellan provins och parnass
John Fernström (1897--1961) var verksam som violinist, dirigent och tonsättare. Idag är han bäst ihågkommen för sitt initiativ att 1951 starta...
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Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly...
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Nikolaj Gogol
Detta kan egentligen inte kallas en biografi, även om Nabokov i och för sig skildrar Gogols liv i stora drag. Snarare är det en personlig essä,...
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