The Winding Stair
Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall
$27.58
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2006
Summary
Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier’s aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon’s remarkable personality for the common reader. To her book she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier biography, Golden Lads, so immensely readable, skillfully threading into her narrative extracts from contemporary documents and from Bacon’s own writings, and setting her account of his life within a v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080748 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844080749 |
| Author: | Francis King, Daphne du Maurier |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 219g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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‘Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher’ Francis King
Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher - Francis King
Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher - Francis KingAbout The Author
Francis King
Daphne du Maurier was born in 1906 and educated at home and in Paris. She began writing in 1928, and many of her bestselling novels were set in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life. She was made a DBE in 1969 and died in 1989.
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