The Cardinals Daughter
Author | : Catherine Ann Warfield |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Catherine Ann Warfield |
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Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Robert Mackenzie Daniel |
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Total Pages | : 312 |
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Author | : Robert Mackenzie DANIEL |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
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Author | : Robert Mackenzie Daniel |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
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Author | : Robert Mackenzie Daniel |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
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Author | : Bessie Head |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Afrique du Sud |
ISBN | : 9780435909673 |
The Cardinals--thought to be the first long piece of fiction Head produced and the only one she ever set in South Africa--is an exciting literary event.
Author | : Robert Mackenzie Daniel |
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Author | : Dario Fo |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609452844 |
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified women in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married—one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia’s own brother, Cesar Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme fatale par excellence. But there are two sides to every story. Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to have serve as the head of the Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of Renaissance Italy’s most thriving cities, founded one of the world’s first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the renaissance and, in many ways, the world’s first modern woman. In this richly imagined novel, Nobel laureate Dario Fo reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, her passion for life, her compassion for others, and her skill at navigating around her family’s evildoings. The Borgias are unrivalled for the range and magnitude of their political machinations and opportunism. Fo’s brilliance rests in his rendering their story as a shocking mirror image of the uses and abuses of power in our own time. Lucrezia herself becomes a model for how to survive and rise above those abuses. Part Wolf Hall, part House of Cards, The Pope's Daugther will appeal to readers of historical fiction and of contemporary fiction alike and will delight anyone fascinated by Renaissance Italy.
Author | : Robert Mackenzie Daniel |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
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Author | : Kate Alcott |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101912243 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid Bergman, already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of Arc, has a baby out of wedlock with her Italian lover, film director Roberto Rossellini. Previously held up as an icon of purity, Bergman's fall shocks her legions of fans--and none more so than seventeen-year-old Jessica Malloy, whose father is Bergman's Hollywood publicist. After years of fleeting interactions with Bergman, Jesse has come to idolize the actress as the epitome of elegance and integrity as well as the paragon of motherhood, an area in which her own difficult mother falls short. But in a heated era of McCarthyist paranoia and extreme censorship, Ingrid's affair sets off an international scandal that robs Jesse of her childhood hero. When the stress placed on Jesse's father begins to reveal hidden truths about the Malloy family, Jesse's eyes are opened to the complex realities of life--and love. The Hollywood Daughter is an intimate novel of self-discovery that evokes a Hollywood sparkling with glamour and vivid drama.