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Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0007111681ISBN 13: 9780007111688
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Part of the outstanding biographical series edited by Richard Holmes that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive. In this pioneering series, Richard Holmes, the worlds leading Romantic biographer, sets out to recover the great forgotten tradition of English biographical writing. I have had no time for dusty tomes, writes Holmes, I have looked for brevity, intelligence and style. Above all, I have sought out great biographical writers: biographers with passion, biographers who have found a way to the heart and soul of a memorable subject. Jack Sheppard was an 18th-century Houdini a handsome young escape artist who broke out of his cell on Newgates grim Death Row three times. Jonathan Wild was the infamous Thief-Taker General who helped to recapture him and many other criminals, only to be tried and executed himself for racketeering, among scenes of mayhem at Tyburn. Daniel Defoe, the master of adventure fiction, was fascinated by True Confessions and the workings of the criminal personality (including its daring, its stoicism and its humour). He was the first to retell these stories, based on personal interviews in Newgate, which also include a thrilling (sometimes hour by hour) reconstruction of events. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004
ISBN 10: 0007111681ISBN 13: 9780007111688
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004
ISBN 10: 0007111681ISBN 13: 9780007111688
Anbieter: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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