Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire TomalinRequirements: ePUB Reader, 7.2MB | RetailOverview: Mrs Jordan’s Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover […]
Poems of John Keats by Claire TomalinRequirements: ePUB Reader, 2.9MBOverview: Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had – unwittingly – fulfilled […]
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin Requirements: EPUB Reader, 6.8MBOverview: At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin […]
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin Requirements: .ePUB Reader | 3.5 MBOverview: Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist – the creator of characters who live immortally in the […]
The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin Requirements: ePUB Reader | 4.8 MBOverview: When Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857, she was 18: a professional actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep. He was 45: a literary legend, a national treasure, married with ten children. This meeting sparked a love affair that […]