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The Winding StairFrancis Bacon, His Rise and Fall
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Winding Stair by Daphne Du Maurier
Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon's remarkable personality for the common reader. To her book she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier biography, Golden Lads, so immensely readable, siklfully threading into her narrative extracts from contemporary documents and from Bacon's own writings, and setting her account of his life within a vivid contemporary framework. This is truly history made alive.
Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher Francis King
ISBN: 9781844080748
ISBN-10: 1844080749 Classification: Biography: historical, political & military , Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 Format: Paperback (196mm x 125mm x 20mm) Pages: 320 Imprint: Virago Press Ltd Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Publish Date: 4-May-2006 Country of Publication: United Kingdom |
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Vanishing Cornwall, Paperback (March 2012)
"Published in hardback in 2007 by Virago Press; first published in Great Britain in 1967 by Victor Gollancz"--Title page verso. » Have you read this book? We'd like to know what you think about it - write a review and you'll earn Boomerang Bucks loyalty dollars!
Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989. |
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