In this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents' catastrophically acrimonious divorce, Rupert Christiansen tells the story of a generation.
Rupert Christiansen Knihy
Tento autor zkoumá složitost lidské psychiky a společenských norem prostřednictvím pronikavého psaní. Jeho díla se často zabývají tématy identity, paměti a hledání smyslu v moderním světě. Jeho styl je známý svou elegancí a hloubkou, která čtenáře vtáhne do promyšlených narativů. Autor se snaží odhalit jemné nuance lidské zkušenosti, což z jeho psaní činí poutavý a podnětný zážitek.
An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. A nice aunt is an object of easy affection, at an emotional remove from the fierce, complex, passionate and difficult love that encumbers parenthood. This book explores aunts in various guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources.
The Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and they changed social behaviour. The Ballets Russes came to an official end after many vicissitudes with Diaghilev's abrupt death in 1929.
An account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world - a position it has never relinquished.
A lively account of London's most colorful visitors during the Victorian era sheds light on the English periods of Theodore Gericault, Richard Wagner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other foriegners living in the great city during this seminal period in world history.
Prima donna : a history
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A guide to opera's greatest female singers over the last 300 years.
