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  • Chasing Lost Time

    The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff

    de Jean Findlay ...
    The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece"And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time), when I went to say good day to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me . . ." With these ... Leer más

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    The Queen's Lender

    de Jean Findlay ...
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    Series series Queens of Europe

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    George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI and I, moves with the Court from Edinburgh to London to take over the English throne. It is 1603. Life is a Babel of languages and glittering new wealth. The Scottish court speaks Danish, German, Middle Scots, French and Latin. King James gives Shakespeare his first secure position, and to calm the perfidious religious tensions, he commissions his ... Leer más

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  • Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)

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