Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1935554964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Get Book Here

Book Description
Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.

Author: Taína Caragol
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203288
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Get Book Here

Book Description
Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.

Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101972890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Get Book Here

Book Description
The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.

Author: Laura Morelli
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062993585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438

Get Book Here

Book Description
USA Today Bestseller "This is a truly original novel that has earned its place among my favorite works of historical fiction."--Jennifer Robson, USA Today bestselling author of The Gown An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II. Milan, 1492: When a 16-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace—and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi leader, she risks her life to recover it, working with an American soldier, part of the famed Monuments Men team, to get it back. Two women, separated by 500 years, are swept up in the tide of history as one painting stands at the center of their quests for their own destinies.

Author: Peregrine Churchill
Publisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Get Book Here

Book Description
An excellent biography of Lady Randolph Churchill, Winston's American Mother, by her grandson and includes many unpublished letters. - http://www.goldringbooks.com.

Author: Esther Susan Bell
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804731
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
Celebrates one of Raphael's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, Woman with a Unicorn of 1506-9

Author: Frances Spalding
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855144811
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 July to 26 October 2014.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684

Get Book Here

Book Description