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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-793-2
EAN 9781786497932
Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died.Although he specified an unpretentious funeral, it was inevitable that crowds flocked to his open grave in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-2097-1
EAN 9781473620971
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaimed author of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-828-8
EAN 9781782398288
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration. Wilson's protagonist, witness to Cook's brilliance and wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84887-961-4
EAN 9781848879614
A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for a year at university.Martin Luther King was 'reading the Bible' when he started the Civil Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel, he was 'reading the Bible'. In The Book of the People ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-958-4
EAN 9781848879584
"When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 656 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-956-0
EAN 9781848879560
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-950-8
EAN 9781848879508
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Florence' for exiling him. The Divine Comedy resonates across ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-09-972310-3
EAN 9780099723103
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-949246-7
EAN 9780099492467
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world.In Our Times, A.N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey from that day ...
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Blending military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind, distinguished historian Wilson offers an absorbing portrait of the decline of one of the world's great powers. The result is a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world, as well as a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945187-7
EAN 9780099451877
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? This is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 17,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945186-0
EAN 9780099451860
People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many ...
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