Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: On the Wilder Shores of Love ISBN: 034900546X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349005461 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 11120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The story of a fascinating, bohemian - and, at times outrageous - life that spanned the twentieth century - the perfect book for fans of the Mitfords.
Автор: Blanch, Lesley Название: The Wilder Shores Of Love ISBN: 0753827913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753827918 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus ISBN: 0993092721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993092725 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The definitive, epic biography of the Muslim chieftain Imam Shamyl, the 'Lion of Daghestan', THE SABRES OF PARADISE took six years to complete, with research done in Russia and the Caucasus, including tracing his descendants in Turkey and Egypt. ― THE SABRES OF PARADISE is the story of two worlds (two faiths, two societies, two continents) brought into sudden juxtaposition. During the Caucasian Wars of Independence, the warring mountain tribes of Daghestan and Chechnya united under the charismatic leadership of Imam Shamyl, strengthened only by the desire for an independent Caucasus and their religious faith. ― For years Imam Shamyl defied his enemy, Tsar Nicholas I, who had taken his eldest son as a hostage to St Petersburg. The Muslim chieftain captured in turn two Georgian princesses (from the Tzarina's entourage), a French governess, and the children, and kept them in his harem until they could be exchanged for his son. ― A universal saga, it is also a history of late 19th century Imperialist Russian rule. The struggle of the people of the Caucasus to remain independent of Russia had a powerful influence on Tolstoy and Pushkin, and is disturbingly relevant to our world today.― It is set both in the Caucasus, a region of supreme natural beauty and mighty mountain ranges, and in St Petersburg, the most elegant and sophisticated of Russian cities.GUARDIAN: "Crammed with truly fabulous stories of fighting and love and violent death . . . this is a] profound and exhilarating book."PHILIP MARSDEN: "Like Tolstoy's, Lesley Blanch's sense of history is ultimately convincing not because of any sweeping theses, but because of its particularities, the quirks of individuals and their personal narratives, their deluded ambitions, their vanities and passions."HAMISH BOWLES in JACQUELINE KENNEDY: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS: "Jacqueline Kennedy and Khrushchev maintained a spirited badinage through dinner. Mrs Kennedy had recently read THE SABRES OF PARADISE, Lesley Blanch's dashing history of the Muslim tribes' resistance to Russian expansionism in the Caucasus, and attempted to engage the Soviet premier in conversation on the subject. He responded with the comparative numbers of teachers per capita in the Soviet and Czarist Ukraine. She cut him off with the playful riposte, "Oh, Mr Chairman, don't bore me with statistics." BRIAN ALDISS: "A book as thick with flavour as roast wild boar, tusks and all. One of the most nutritious books I have ever read."
Автор: Blanch Arnold Название: Methods and Techniques for Gouache Painting ISBN: 1258996189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258996185 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 26910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: Regency England Undressed: Harriette Wilson, the Greatest Courtesan of Her Age ISBN: 0993355226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993355226 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Lesley Blanch's novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary. The Wilder Shores of Love, for which Blanch is chiefly remembered, had been published to acclaim the previous year. Harriette Wilson lived among and was an integral part of a wealthy society where privilege, arrogance and leisure flourished. The greatest courtesan of her age, her patrons included many of the distinguished men of her day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. Her weapons of allure were beauty, style and wit. She held court in a box at the opera and competed with her courtesan sisters for status and prestige. "Harriette Wilson's life was deplorable - but how readable " Blanch exclaims. The motive for writing the Memoirs, published in 1825, was blackmail, or "a desperate effort to live by my wits," as Wilson put it. She was in her thirties, her looks were fading away as were her admirers, and the annuity she had been promised by the Duke of Beaufort in exchange for leaving alone his heir, the Marquis of Worcester, had been cut off. Wilson offered to edit out of her Memoirs any lovers who paid 200 pounds, thereby holding the British aristocracy to ransom. Certain men who bought her silence were excluded, while others who paid highly were hugely flattered. Those who were brave enough to stand up to her were ridiculed and shamed most famously the Duke of Wellington: "Publish and be damned " he cried. She did and she was. Regency England Undressed: Harriette Wilson, the Greatest Courtesan of her Age also offers intimately detailed portraits of eccentrics, individualists and the demi-monde. Blanch's Biographical Notes in the Appendix read like a raffish Who's Who of Regency England, and Europe too. She brings the distant past to life so it reads like a novel; precise in its curious detail and bold in its historical panache."
Автор: Blanch Lesley Название: The Nine Tiger Man: A Satirical Romance ISBN: 0993092748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993092749 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: JOHN BARKHAM, NEW YORK WORLD - A delicious tale of low behaviour in high places; with particular attention to the activities of an irresistible and gifted East Indian Prince who takes his own form of revenge against the entire English Empire by inducting a bevy of highborn English females into the fine points of Oriental eroticism, proving that Debrett's Peerage is no match at all for the Karma Sutra . . . TIME - Wildly funny. The Rao divided women into two categories: those with bodies and those with jewels . . . When East meet West: in this witty satirical romance, Lesley Blanch recreates the British India of the 1850's, where representatives of Victoria's England preside uneasily over the glittering remnants of the Moghul Empire. The Nine Tiger Man is a piquant tale of a Maharaja's heir, a Viscount's daughter and an uninhibited chambermaid who sampled one another's environments and were never the same again. The women first encounter the Rao Jagnabad, warrior and slayer of nine tigers, when he visits England on a diplomatic mission. Fierce and handsome in gold-embroidered brocades and magnificent jewels, he meets the prim and proper Hon. Florence at a ball. She is overwhelmed by his powerful masculinity and dreams of him to the exclusion of all else, to the intense irritation of her fianc . Her maid, Rosie, is also overwhelmed and samples the Rao for herself. Fate decrees that, some years later, the two women are marooned in a crumbling palace on a remote, jungly island during the Indian Mutiny. They find themselves in the sole custody of the Rao along with two dozen other Englishwomen. A razor-sharp satire on class and Empire, the outcome is surprising, even to Rosie. Lesley Blanch's only novel was written while in Rajasthan: "I had pulled a ligament in my leg and had to stay on an island in Jaipur. You could hear the leopards coughing at dusk in the far hills, and the parakeets flew around turning the sky green. One day I saw what I thought was a log, but it was a crocodile. I had heard the story of a group of English women being put on that island during the Mutiny and not daring to escape because of the crocodiles - they were just stuck there, with no news, and fearing the worst. From that I imagined the whole novel." DAILY TELEGRAPH - Panache, high spirits, faultless timing and uncontrollable fun.
