Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Heroes (eBook, ePUB)

Saviours, Traitors and Supermen (TEXT ONLY)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives - from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake - which demonstrates the continuing importance of the need for heroes in the modern age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007404674
• Artikelnr.: 37997529

Autorenporträt

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Costa Biography Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award. Her other books are Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is also a respected critic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
I: Achilles
II: Alcibiades
III: Cato
IV: El Cid
V: Francis Drake
VI: Wallenstein
VII: Garibaldi
VIII: Odysseus
Author's Note
References
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits