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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work. He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces, even a hundred y ...Show more
Chaucer ( Brief Lives - Volume 1 ) by Peter Ackroyd
Category: Classics | Series: Brief Lives S.
Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of his comedy behind. In truth a great deal is known of him. He was a royal servant, who was indicted for rap ...Show more
Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister by John Edwards
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Brief Lives Ser.
A fresh and thoughtful look at one of Australia's greatest prime ministers, John Curtin.
Newton by Peter Ackroyd
Category: Science | Series: Brief Lives
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: "I was in the prime of age for invention." Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, ...Show more
Turner by Peter Ackroyd
Category: Biography | Series: Brief Lives
James Mallord William Turner was a Londoner through and through. His father had a barber's shop in Covent Garden, his mother came from a line of London butchers. He was brought up in Maiden Lane (the family moving at some point from the south side of the street to the north side). He was short and pugna ...Show more
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