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Rupert Christiansen

    Deze auteur verkent de complexiteit van de menselijke psyche en maatschappelijke normen door middel van inzichtelijk schrijven. Zijn werken duiken vaak in thema's als identiteit, geheugen en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de moderne wereld. Zijn stijl staat bekend om zijn elegantie en diepgang, die lezers aantrekt tot doordachte verhalen. De auteur probeert de subtiele nuances van de menselijke ervaring te ontrafelen, wat zijn schrijven tot een boeiende en stimulerende lectuur maakt.

    Prima donna : a history
    The Victorian Visitors
    City of Light
    Diaghilev's Empire
    The Complete Book of Aunts
    I Know You are Going to be Happy
    • In this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents' catastrophically acrimonious divorce, Rupert Christiansen tells the story of a generation.

      I Know You are Going to be Happy
    • An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. A nice aunt is an object of easy affection, at an emotional remove from the fierce, complex, passionate and difficult love that encumbers parenthood. This book explores aunts in various guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources.

      The Complete Book of Aunts
    • The Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and they changed social behaviour. The Ballets Russes came to an official end after many vicissitudes with Diaghilev's abrupt death in 1929.

      Diaghilev's Empire
    • An account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world - a position it has never relinquished.

      City of Light
    • The Victorian Visitors

      Culture Shock in Nineteenth-century Britain

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      A lively account of London's most colorful visitors during the Victorian era sheds light on the English periods of Theodore Gericault, Richard Wagner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other foriegners living in the great city during this seminal period in world history.

      The Victorian Visitors
    • Prima donna : a history

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      • 14 uur lezen

      A guide to opera's greatest female singers over the last 300 years.

      Prima donna : a history