基本信息出版社：Random House Trade Paperbacks
页码：512 页
出版日期：2008年08月
ISBN：0812979699
条形码：9780812979695
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
外文书名：公爵夫人
内容简介 Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people. This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth -- always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals. Georgiana's extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介 Amanda Foreman, born in London in 1968, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Oxford University, where she received a Ph.D. in history. A freelance journalist and until recently a researcher at Oxford, she has, since the immensely successful publication of Georgiana in the United Kingdom, made numerous television and radio appearances there, including the presentation of a Channel 4 documentary on the life of her subject. The Duchess (originally published as Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire) is her first book. She lives in New York City and London.
编辑推荐 Review
'Mesmerizing' Antonia Fraser, Literary Review 'Well-written, extensively researched and highly readable! Gripping' Stella Tillyard, Mail on Sunday 'An outstanding debut by a young biographer fully in control of her sources, and with an easy and elegant writing style' Roy Strong, Sunday Times 'A pungent, intimate blend of biography and history ... a provocative contribution to our understanding of women of the past.' Jenny Uglow, Independent 'Packed with fascinating information and grippingly good' Lisa Jardine, BBC History magazine 'Real-life glamour, peppered with a menage a trois and a dose of depression ... Curl up and devour it.' Elle 'A gorgeous Whig romp ... [and] a serious, as well as seriously enjoyable historical biography' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Excellent and fascinating' Sunday Telegraph 'From this very entertaining account emerges a vibrant picture of late eighteenth-century life and politics, and the portrait of a rare and highly talented woman.' Observer 'A sparkling biography' Marie Claire 'Brilliantly researched, compellingly told, this is biography of the first order' Daily Telegraph --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times
`A gorgeous Whig romp ... [and] a serious, as well as seriously enjoyable historical biography' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Marie Claire
`A sparkling biography' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Sunday Telegraph
`Excellent and fascinating' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Observer
`From this very entertaining account emerges a vibrant picture of late eighteenth-century life and politics, and the portrait of a rare and highly talented woman.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Observer
'Has all the ingredients of a popular period drama... portray(ed) with insight and approaches the status of 18th-century women sensitively.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Times
'the definitive biography of Georgiana Spencer... the weft and the warp of aristocratic Georgian life in all it's glory.'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Sunday Express
'"The Duchess" is almost identical in content to "Georgiana" and every bit as well researched' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.