Teller of the Unexpected
- 272pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
A concise life of Roald Dahl - much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters.
Matthew Dennison è autore di cinque opere di saggistica acclamate dalla critica. La sua scrittura si addentra in profonde esplorazioni di individui e delle loro vite, mantenendo un'acuta prospettiva analitica. Dennison eccelle nell'intrecciare dettagli storici con intuizioni psicologiche, creando ritratti avvincenti. Il suo stile è meticoloso e attento alle sfumature, invitando i lettori a un profondo coinvolgimento con i suoi soggetti.





A concise life of Roald Dahl - much-loved author and creator of numerous iconic literary characters.
"Monarchy in Britain is a mindset - sociological and emotional - seldom scrutinised save by diehard supporters or detractors. Matthew Dennison's new biography of Elizabeth II offers to evaluate a magisterial reign now spanning seven decades and the Queen's record as practitioner of monarchy. The person of the monarch is the closest an ethnically and culturally diverse society comes to a visible representative of past, present and future, although population changes since 1945 have made it impossible for Elizabeth II convincingly to embody the wide-ranging outlooks and aspirations of a muddled demographic. Instead she is understood as the champion of a handful of 'British' values endorsed - if no longer practised - by the bulk of the nation: service, duty, steadfastness, charity, stoicism: a visible definition of an aspect of 'Britishness'."--Provided by publisher.
A brand-new biography of one of the most extraordinary figures of Antiquity.
An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's last- born child, and of a sometimes fraught royal mother-daughter relationship.
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