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  • The Pinecone

    The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine—Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way.Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius—an antiquarian, an architect, and a visionary. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Losh combined a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sybil & Cyril

    Cutting Through Time

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts—streamlined, full of movement ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mr. Lear

    A Life of Art and Nonsense

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    Discover the vivid life of Edward Lear, the beloved poet, artist, and "nonsense" creator, in this enchanting biography by award-winning author Jenny Uglow.Edward Lear, the renowned English artist, musician, author, and poet, lived a fascinating life, but confessed, "I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth while it is present." He was a man in a hurry, "running about on railroads" from London to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Year with Gilbert White

    The First Great Nature Writer

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES (UK), THE SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, AND NEW STATESMANFrom one of the most inquiring and celebrated biographers, a glimpse into the life and mind of a pioneering naturalist.In 1781, Gilbert White was a country curate living in the Hampshire village he had known all his life. Fascinated by the fauna, flora, and people around him, he had kept journals for . ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • In These Times

    Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historianWe know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • North and South

    de Elizabeth Gaskell ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOWMilton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • A Gambling Man

    Charles II's Restoration Game

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    "A detailed and thoroughly engrossing examination of the Restoration's first decade" and King Charles II ( The Wall Street Journal ).The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Nature's Engraver

    A Life of Thomas Bewick

    de Jenny Uglow ...
    A beautifully illustrated biography of Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), the man whose art helped shape the way we view the natural worldAt the end of the eighteenth century, Britain, and much of the Western world, fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds marked the moment, the first "field guide" for ordinary people, illustrated with woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection

    A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more

    de Elizabeth Gaskell, Barry Campbell, Steve Wakelam, Amanda Vickery, Jenny Uglow ...
    Narrado por Full Cast, Jodie Comer, David Threlfall, Emily Mortimer, Sue Johnston, Kenneth Cranham, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Copley, Rebecca Front ...

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    23 hora 20 minutos

    A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of Elizabeth Gaskell's well loved novels - plus bonus materialElizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction.This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Mirror of Great Britain

    A Life of King James VI and I

    de Clare Jackson ...
    **The Times [UK] • Best Books of 2025 [So Far]“Beautifully written and supported by a treasure trove of new material” (Amanda Foreman), The Mirror of Great Britain is a major reassessment of King James, revealing the long origins of an uneasily united kingdom.**History has not been kind to King James. A cradle king who was crowned in Scotland in 1567 and England and Ireland in 1603, James VI and I ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

    The First Global War and the End of the Habsburg Supremacy

    de John Pike ...
    The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict. In seeking to exploit the Bohemian ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Henry V

    The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King

    de Dan Jones ...
    **"Ambitious... With meticulous research and in lively style, Jones presents us with the man beyond the Shakespeare character."—The New York Times“The best biography yet of England’s greatest king."—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and JerusalemThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro