Images & Shadows: Part of a Life - Couverture souple

Origo, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1567921035 ISBN 13 : 9781567921038

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Images and Shadows Iris origo was born in 1992 and instantly catapulted into a life of "unfair advantages of birth, education, money, environment and opportunity." But she used this birth-right wisely, and her legacy includes a string of books beloved equally by historians and biographers.Origo's mother, Lady Sybil Cuffe, married William Bayard Cutting in 1901, and when the family was not traveling to the far corner... Full description

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During the Second World War, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her bestselling diaries, War in Val d'Orcia, as well as two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: the Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical and The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli.

Revue de presse

'Elegant and intelligent' -- Spectator

'A wonderful writer... Images and Shadows is as delicious and tear-inducing as Downton Abbey' -- New York Times

'An elegiac autobiography... illuminating' -- Telegraph

'Self-effacing and cultivated... gently percipient' -- Kirkus Reviews

'A true cosmopolite of vast energy and stunning intelligence' -- New York Times

'A masterly biographer here recounts her own story, and in this biography she is at her best' --Raymond Mortimer

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1567921035
• ISBN 13: 9781567921038
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 588
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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