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historical biographies : great lives, well told

Beskrivelse: I read a lot of hist-biog. Some are about fascinating people but aren't fascinating reads. These I hope are both.

Rank Titel Forfatter Tilføjet

1

Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945

af Carlo D'Este

346 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

4.1

2 Members: aulsmith, VonKar

2

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

685 medlemmer

13 anmeldelser

4

Member: inge87

3

af Julian Jackson

206 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: VonKar

4

The Double Life of Doctor Lopez: Spies, Shakespeare and the Plot to Poison Elizabeth I

af Dominic Green

67 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

Member: nessreader

5

Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance

66 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

2 Members: inge87, nessreader

6

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

af Michael Korda

670 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

4

Member: aulsmith

7

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson

443 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: nessreader

8

A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter

af Victoria Glendinning

49 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

9

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

af Catherine Bailey

651 medlemmer

29 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

10

af Miranda Seymour

227 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: nessreader

11

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal

123 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4

Member: aulsmith

12

Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade

af Justin Spring

411 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

13

Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince

af Claire Tomalin

245 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: nessreader

14

133 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: inge87

15

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories

216 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.6

Member: nessreader

16

T. H. White; a biography

af Sylvia Townsend Warner

107 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4

Member: aulsmith

17

The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries

af Paul Johnson

25 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: inge87

18

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

667 medlemmer

16 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: inge87

19

Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey

af Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

99 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: aulsmith

20

af Ian McIntyre

21 medlemmer

5

Member: nessreader

21

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

af Mary S. Lovell

260 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: nessreader

22

Francis of Assisi: A New Biography

af Augustine Thompson

122 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: inge87

23

The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge

af Michael Daly

48 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 4.5

Member: aulsmith

24

Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit

af David A. Traill

111 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: nessreader

25

The Parting of Friends: The Wilberforces and Henry Manning

af David Newsome

77 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: inge87

26

Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

af Sarah Wildman

147 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: inge87

27

Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition

af Michael Holroyd

109 medlemmer

½ 4.3

Member: nessreader

28

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

af Margalit Fox

702 medlemmer

37 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: inge87

29

W. B. Yeats : A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914

af R. F. Foster

246 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4.1

Member: nessreader
Forklaringer: nessreader: Also volume 2.

30

Lamy of Santa Fe

196 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: inge87

31

Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife

20 medlemmer

4

Member: nessreader

32

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

af Elizabeth Gaskell

1,497 medlemmer

20 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: nessreader

33

Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell

af Joseph Pearce

33 medlemmer

½ 3.4

Member: inge87

34

Benvenuto Cellinis Levned fortalt af ham selv

af Benvenuto Cellini

2,552 medlemmer

22 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: nessreader

35

Chips : the diaries of Sir Henry Channon

af Sir Henry Channon

114 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: nessreader

36

Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology

af Edward H. Burtt, Jr.

25 medlemmer

Member: inge87

37

af Teresa Ransom

30 medlemmer

4

Member: nessreader

38

The Merchant of Prato

485 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: nessreader

39

Julia Margaret Cameron

af Amanda Hopkinson

36 medlemmer

4

Member: nessreader

40

The World of Mary Ellen Best

af Caroline Davidson

41 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4.8

Member: nessreader

41

Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People

af Benjamin Woolley

148 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

42

Held Fast for England: G.A. Henty, Imperialist Boys' Writer

7 medlemmer

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

43

Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius

37 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

44

The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe - A Life That Illuminates an Age

28 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: nessreader

45

An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm

af Hannah Pakula

341 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: nessreader

46

God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible---A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal

af Brian Moynahan

198 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: nessreader

47

The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330

af Ian Mortimer

365 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

4

Member: nessreader

48

Anny: A Life of Anny Thackeray Ritchie

af Henrietta Garnett

21 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: nessreader

49

A London Child of the 1870s

af M. V. Hughes

226 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

50

Mr. Macready: A nineteenth-century tragedian and his theatre

af J. C. Trewin

4 medlemmer

4

Member: nessreader

51

Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments

af Edmund Gosse

720 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: nessreader

52

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

af Claire Tomalin

1,730 medlemmer

32 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: nessreader

53

A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924

af Julia Briggs

84 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

54

The Carlyles at Home

137 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: nessreader

55

The great Shakespeare forgery

af Bernard D. N. Grebanier

22 medlemmer

4

Member: nessreader

56

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

715 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

4

57

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

af S. C. Gwynne

631 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

58

The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones

af Thomas Asbridge

592 medlemmer

10 anmeldelser

4

59

Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero

253 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

4.1

60

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

245 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4.2

61

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

af Caroline Moorehead

244 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4

62

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

af Janice P. Nimura

239 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

63

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History

af Jonathan Horn

161 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.1

64

Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

143 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.4

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maj 2015
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