基本信息·出版社：Random House Trade Paperbacks ·页码：512 页 ·出版日期：2008年08月 ·ISBN：0812979699 ·条形码：9780812979695 ·装帧：平装 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Random House Trade Paperbacks
·页码：512 页
·出版日期：2008年08月
·ISBN：0812979699
·条形码：9780812979695
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：公爵夫人
内容简介 Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people. This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth -- always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals. Georgiana's extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 作者简介 Amanda Foreman, born in London in 1968, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in history. A freelance journalist and until recently a researcher at Oxford, she has, since the immensely successful publication of
Georgiana in the United Kingdom, made numerous television and radio appearances there, including the presentation of a Channel 4 documentary on the life of her subject.
The Duchess (originally published as
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire) is her first book. She lives in New York City and London.
编辑推荐 Review 'Mesmerizing' Antonia Fraser, Literary Review 'Well-written, extensively researched and highly readable! Gripping' Stella Tillyard, Mail on Sunday 'An outstanding debut by a young biographer fully in control of her sources, and with an easy and elegant writing style' Roy Strong, Sunday Times 'A pungent, intimate blend of biography and history ... a provocative contribution to our understanding of women of the past.' Jenny Uglow, Independent 'Packed with fascinating information and grippingly good' Lisa Jardine, BBC History magazine 'Real-life glamour, peppered with a menage a trois and a dose of depression ... Curl up and devour it.' Elle 'A gorgeous Whig romp ... [and] a serious, as well as seriously enjoyable historical biography' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Excellent and fascinating' Sunday Telegraph 'From this very entertaining account emerges a vibrant picture of late eighteenth-century life and politics, and the portrait of a rare and highly talented woman.' Observer 'A sparkling biography' Marie Claire 'Brilliantly researched, compellingly told, this is biography of the first order' Daily Telegraph
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times `A gorgeous Whig romp ... [and] a serious, as well as seriously enjoyable historical biography'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Marie Claire `A sparkling biography'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Sunday Telegraph `Excellent and fascinating'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Observer `From this very entertaining account emerges a vibrant picture of late eighteenth-century life and politics, and the portrait of a rare and highly talented woman.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Observer 'Has all the ingredients of a popular period drama... portray(ed) with insight and approaches the status of 18th-century women sensitively.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Times 'the definitive biography of Georgiana Spencer... the weft and the warp of aristocratic Georgian life in all it's glory.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Sunday Express '"The Duchess" is almost identical in content to "Georgiana" and every bit as well researched'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
