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  • William Morris: A Life for Our Time

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.S.Byatt as 'one of the finest biographies ever published', this is Fiona MacCarthy's magisterial biography of William Morris, legendary designer and father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement.'Thrilling, absorbing and majestic.' Independent'Wonderfully ambitious ... The definitive Morris biography.' Sunday Time... ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Byron

    Life and Legend

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive.She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Last Curtsey

    The End of the Debutantes

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the focus for newspaper diarists and society photographers in a party season that stretched for months among the great houses of England, Ireland and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Last Pre-Raphaelite

    Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.' Guardian'Rarely are biographies both as authoritative and engaging as this.' Literary ReviewThe angels on our ... ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Eric Gill

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    A gorgeous new edition of Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist- craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill.'Fascinating on the work and fair to the man; a brilliant biography.' Independent'Scrupulous and sensitive . . . A wise and foolish English eccentric in full glory.' Observer'Full of insight and interest .... ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Byron

    Vida y leyenda

    Por primera vez en español, la gran biografía de lord Byron en el bicentenario de su muerte.«Tan fascinante como el propio mito. MacCarthy ha escrito un excelente libro sobre Byron».Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian«Lord Byron de... ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Gropius

    The Man Who Built the Bauhaus

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    “This is an absolute triumph—ideas, lives, and the dramas of the twentieth century are woven together in a feat of storytelling. A masterpiece.”—Edmund de Waal, ceramic artist and author of The White RoadThe impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings—Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am—but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Simple Life

    C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds.The leader of this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert Ashbee, who in 1888 ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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    Gropius

    The Man Who Built the Bauhaus

    par Fiona MacCarthy ...
    Lu par Jennifer M. Dixon ...

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    19 heure 28 min

    The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings—Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Amb—but no less in his students. I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was at the center of European modernism and avant-garde society glamour, only to be exiled ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra had six children. Of the five who reached maturity, only one, the future King George V, has received much attention from biographers.The eldest son, Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, a backward youth and a subject of scandal, died before he was thirty. The three princesses, Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, the lifelong spinster Victoria, and Maud, ... En savoir plus

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  • Swallowcliffe Hall 1890: Polly's Story

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    Polly Perkins can hardly believe her luck when she is taken on as under-housemaid at Swallowcliffe Hall. At first it's all she can do to keep up, with endless fires to be laid and beds to be made, never mind when guests arrive from London for a country house party. Will she ever feel at home in this grand old house, full of whispers and ghosts from the past? But friendship and comfort are found in ... En savoir plus

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  • Matriarch

    Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

    par Anne Edwards ...
    The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history. From a family of impoverished nobility, she was chosen by Queen Victoria as the bride for her eldest grandson, the scandalous Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne, who died mysteriously before their marriage. Despite this setback, she became queen, mother of two kings, grandmother of the current queen, and a ... En savoir plus

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