Cleopatra
A Life
$49.81
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
6 September 2011
Summary
Named a “Best Book of the 21st Century” by Kirkus Reviews, this biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings to life the most intriguing woman in history: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316001946 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316001945 |
| Author: | Stacy Schiff |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 140mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
“Stacy Schiff has managed to create a masterpiece.”
“A masterpiece.”–Daily Beast
“Stacy Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we’d miss if it didn’t exist.”–Wall Street Journal
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and The Witches: Salem, 1692.
Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City.
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