Biography

Rembrandt

Images and Metaphors
by Christian Tümpel

Rembrandt used the achievements of his teachers, predecessors and contemporaries to develop and realise his own artistic aims and abilities, and it was to these too that he owed his basic artistic impulses. His urge to achieve unmistakable originality led him to overturn aesthetic and thematic conventions; he expanded technique and experimented with the use of colour and forms of etching. Although the art of the past always served him as a starting point, he sought to surpass it by staging works that were both unexpectedly daring and apposite to their subject.

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Virginia Woolf


by Anthony Curtis

'Virginia Woolf was clearly one of the great writers of the past century, but in what does her greatness consists?’ muses Anthony Curtis. ‘This book is an attempt to answer that question.'

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Florence Nightingale and The Viceroys


by Patricia Mowbray

A biography that reveals an aspect of Florence Nightingale’s life that has been largely overlooked. Her profound influence on health and welfare in India, on both rural life in the country and the conditions of soldiers sent out to serve in India during the high water mark of the British Empire.

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Thomas Hardy


by Tim Dolin

Thomas Hardy is best known for his 'Wessex Novels', and his home country of Dorset is known to literary tourists as 'Hardy Country'. Yet Hardy's own relationship with his background was a complex one.

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Bismarck

The Iron Chancellor
by Volker Ullrich & Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in the history as 'Iron Chancellor', a reactionary and a militarist whose unification of Germany in 1871 set Europe on the road to the disaster of the First World War. Yet as this comprehensive study shows, the real Bismarck was a much more complicated figure than this traditional stereotype suggests.

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