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    Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows

    Ruth Scurr

    A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of…

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    Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows

    Ruth Scurr (Gonville & Caius College)

    Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told through his engagement with the natural world.

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    John Aubrey, My Own Life

    Ruth Scurr

    John Aubry did not leave a diary. This biography is written in the form that diary might have taken.

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    Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows

    Ruth Scurr

    A revelatory portrait of Napoleon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, written for our own time, not in power politics or epic battles, but through his love of…

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    Carlyle’s The French Revolution: Continuum Histories 5

    In 1837 Thomas Carlyle published his two-volume work The French Revolution: A History and overnight became a celebrity. The work was filled with a passionate intensity, hitherto unknown in historical…

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    Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

    Ruth Scurr

    Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre’s evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the…

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    Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

    Ruth Scurr

    Traces Robespierre’s life from a troubled childhood in provincial Arras to the idealist, fighting for the rights of the people, and sweeping on to the leader prepared to sign the…

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    John Aubrey: My Own Life

    Ruth Scurr

    ‘A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive’ Simon Schama, Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD This is the autobiography that John Aubrey…

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    Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows

    Ruth Scurr (Gonville & Caius College)

    Best Books of the Year * Financial Times, The Times (of London), History Today Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told…

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