Stacy Schiff
Cleopatra: A Life

2011 | Nakladatelství Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.

Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly se…parates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous reconstruction of a dazzling life. Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Fa…mous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous reconstruction of a dazzling life.

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O knize

Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	368
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	075353956X
ISBN:	9780753539569
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	17. 3. 2025 18:28
Číslo položky:	1182962

O autorovi

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff je jednou z nejrenomovanějších amerických spisovatelek historických knih a životopisů. Je autorkou díla Véra , které bylo vyznamenáno Pulitzerovou cenou. Za knihu Saint-Exupéry: A Biography se dostala mezi finalisty téže ceny. Její dílo Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of America získalo cenu George Washington Book Prize. Kniha Cleopatra: a Life se stala bestsellerem New York Times. Spisovatelka získala stipendium od Guggenheim Foundation a National Endowment for the Humanities a cenu za literaturu od American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York Public Library jí udělila 2011 Library Lion. Žije v New Yorku.

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