Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. This work separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order a generation before the birth of Christ.

"We see a great queen painted in dazzling colours in the twilight of a dazzling kingdom.. new life is breathed into an indisputably authentic icon" Sunday Times "Under [Schiff's] pen, the mirage of Cleopatra shimmers down the deserts of time and suddenly stands before us, in new and thrilling sharp focus...full of well-researched context and much learned speculation" -- Jan Moir Daily Mail

Stacy Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Excupery, a Pulitzer Prizefinalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America,winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Francais d'Ameruque. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director's Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780753539552
ISBN 10	0753539551
Title	Cleopatra
Author	Stacy Schiff
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Ebury Publishing
Year published	2010-11-04
Number of pages	384
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.