Stacy Schiff Knihy

Jej palác sa leskol ónyxami, rubínmi a zlatom, ale ešte viac prekypoval politickými a ľúbostnými intrigami. Kleopatra dosiahla úspechy bystrým plánovaním a rafinovaným vyjednávaním. Dožila sa sotva štyridsať rokov, no stihla pretvoriť obrysy starovekého sveta. Vydala sa dvakrát, obaja muži boli jej bratia, pričom prvého zabila v občianskej vojne a druhého otrávila. Zbavila sa aj ambicióznej sestry. Incestné manželstvá a úkladné vraždy boli rodinnými špecialitami. Napriek tomu, že Kleopatra mala skutočné vzťahy iba s Iuliom Caesarom a Marcom Antoniom, obaja boli ženatí. S Caesarom mala dieťa a s Antoniom ďalšie tri. Ich spojenectvo sa snažilo založiť novú ríšu, aj keď sa im to nakoniec stalo osudným. Kleopatra si vyslúžila slávu dávno predtým, než sa jej meno stalo otrepanou frázou. Shakespeare a Shaw jej vkladali slová, Michelangelo a Tiepolo jej prepožičali tvár. Jej výnimočná osobnosť a dramatické okolnosti života sa však postupne vytratili. Stacy Schiffová majstrovsky oddelila fakty od výmyslov a postavila túto neodolateľnú kráľovnú, ktorej smrť znamenala začiatok novej epochy, do nového svetla. Dielo ponúka sugestívny pohľad na očarujúci životný príbeh.

'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece started to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before panic had infected the entire colony, nineteen men and women had been hanged, and a band of adolescent girls had brought Massachusetts to its knees. Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time. She shows us how quickly the epidemic of accusations, trials, and executions span out of control. Above all, Schiff's astonishing research reveals details and complexity that few other historians have seen.

When he vanished in 1944—disappearing into thin air as the Little Prince does in his best-loved work—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was already a legend. His name is synonymous with the golden age of aviation, when pilots flew through desert sandstorms in open cockpits and without instruments, fired at by rebellious tribes. The author of many of the classics of aviation literature, he also wrote the children's classic The Little Prince , the most widely translated book in the French language. Stacy Schiff, with an infectious fascination for her subject, has brought Saint-Exupéry to life in this definitive, humane, and hugely entertaining biography.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov’s marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME “Monumental.”—The Boston Globe “Utterly romantic.”—New York magazine “Deeply moving.”—The Seattle Times Stacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory, and his beloved wife, Véra. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

Kleopatra VII. ist heute hinter Mythen, übler Nachrede und märchenhafter Schönheit verborgen. Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer-Preisträgerin, zeigt in ihrer Biografie nicht nur die laszive Verführerin und das intrigante Machtweib, sondern enthüllt eine außerordentlich starke Herrscherin – selbstbewusst, versiert in politischem Kalkül, diplomatisch und visionär. "Wenn Sie gern Biografien lesen, dann kommen Sie an dieser Frau nicht vorbei." (Brigitte) "So gegenwartsnah und zugleich fein moduliert hat man Roms Legionen oder Alexandrias Orgien lange nicht vorgeführt bekommen.“ (Die Welt) "nur wenigen ist es gelungen, das Wesen der ägyptischen Königin so spannend einzufangen wie Kleopatra-Expertin Stacy Schiff. Kleopatra. Ein Leben ist eine Top-Biografie!" (Gala) Stacy Schiff zeigt dank neuer Auswertung antiker Quellen nicht nur die laszive Verführerin und das intrigante Machtweib, sondern auch eine außerordentlich starke Herrscherin mit politischem Kalkül, diplomatisch und visionär Ausstattung: 16 Seiten farbiger Bildteil