Dancing to the Precipice - Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Moorehead is a bestselling and prize-winning author, and the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Madame de la Tour du Pin and Martha Gellhorn. Her recent books – a quartet focussed on resistance to dictatorship, particularly in Italy – were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London. Klappentext Caroline Moorehead's richly novelistic biography sets Lucy and her dairies in their wider context, illuminating a remarkable period of history. Dancing to the Precipice was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2009. Zusammenfassung Caroline Moorehead's richly novelistic biography sets Lucy and her dairies in their wider context, illuminating a remarkable period of history. Dancing to the Precipice was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2009.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Moorehead
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2010
• EAN: 9780099490524
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949052-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 40 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; France, HISTORY / Revolutionary, HISTORY / Europe / France, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), French Revolution, versailles; french revolution