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The Winding Stair

by Daphne du Maurier
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Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon's remarkable personality for the common reader. To her book she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier biography, Golden Lads, so immensely readable, skillfully threading into her narrative extracts from contemporary documents and from Bacon's own writings, and setting her account of his life within a vivid contemporary framework.
"Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher."-Francis King
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9780316323697
  • Release date: December 17, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9780316254359
  • Release date: December 17, 2013

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780316254359
  • File size: 1296 KB
  • Release date: December 17, 2013

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subjects

Biography & Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction

Languages

English

Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon's remarkable personality for the common reader. To her book she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier biography, Golden Lads, so immensely readable, skillfully threading into her narrative extracts from contemporary documents and from Bacon's own writings, and setting her account of his life within a vivid contemporary framework.
"Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher."-Francis King
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Biography & Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction
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