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Written in History (in English)
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Synopsis "Written in History (in English)"
INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse and frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great and Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent and unknown people in extraordinary circumstances - from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now - and illuminate tomorrow.
Simon Sebag Montefiore es autor de numerosos best sellers múltiples veces premiados que se han traducido a cuarenta y ocho idiomas. Su obra Catherine the Great and Potemkin fue nominada al Samuel Johnson Prize de biografía; La corte del zar rojo (Crítica, 2004) ganó el British Book Award al mejor libro de historia del año; Llamadme Stalin (Crítica, 2007) fue galardonado con el Costa Biography Award, el LA Times Book Prize for Biography y el Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; Jerusalén (Crítica, 2011) ganó el JBC Book of the Year Prize y el Wenjin Book Prize en China, y por Los Románov (Crítica, 2016) le otorgaron el premio literario Lupicaia del Terriccio. También es autor de las novelas que forman la Trilogía de Moscú: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon y One night in Winter, que ganó el Political Fiction Book of the Year Award; y ha escrito, junto a Santa Montefiore, la serie de novelas infantiles The Royal Rabbits of London. Sus últimas obras son Escrito en la historia. Cartas que cambiaron el mundo (Crítica, 2019) y Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World.