Ernest Dowson, the subject of this biography, was one of the major poets of the romantic late-Victorian Decadent period. He died in 1900 at the age of 32. His life is both a story of doomed love and one of a man's struggle to create beauty in the face of adversity: Dowson was an alcoholic and a severe depressive who created much of his best work ...
A compelling family biography of the Nehru-Gandhi clan based on the four-part PBS series, this companion volume traces the family's political legacy through peace, war, death, imprisonment, and terrorism to the present day, and chronicles the triumph and tragedy of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and her ill-fated heirs, Sanjay and Rajiv ...
Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign against 'the devil in a bottle' resulted in ...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): short storywriter, author and poet, but also imperialist, racist, misogynist, and sexually confused? Kipling's life and experiences spanned exhilaration (growing up in India during the Raj) and cataclysm (losing his only son in World War I). He has been vilified as an imperialist and racist; his work considered ...
This book marshals the diverse and convincing arguments against the now widely accepted theory that the HIV virus is the sole and sufficient cause of AIDS.
Born into a liberal family, she married Richard Pankhurst, a radical. After his death, she was incensed that the Independent Labour Party branch, which was to use the hall built in his memory, refused admission to women. In reaction she founded the all-female WSPU. Both Emmeline and her daughter Christabel were imprisoned many times for their ...
The largest democracy in the world has for almost all of its existence been ruled by the members of a single family. Five generations have been involved in the emergence of independent India. Without the automatic status of supreme monarchs they have nevertheless been the first family, as much now as 50 years ago. This is the story of the Nehru ...
After 40 years in the House of Commons, Tony Benn remains one of the UK's most controversial politicians. From 1951 to the Gulf War in 1991, Benn has staked out the high moral ground and challenged the Labour leadership to come with him. Benn's inheritance of his father's peerage gave him the first opportunity to battle against the constitution. ...
From the doctor who poisoned his mother-in-law and his wife, to the horse dealer who had her former lover tied to a burning car and pushed over a cliff, this book is a collection of true cases of murderers who killed - or attempted to - for the insurance money.
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