Download or read book The Last Great Dance on Earth written by Sandra Gulland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the novel opens, Josephine and Napoleon have been married for four tumultuous years. Napoleon is Josephine's great love, and she his. But their passionate union is troubled from within, as Josephine is unable to produce an heir, and from without, as England makes war against France and Napoleon's Corsican clan makes war against his wife. Through Josephine's heartfelt diary entries, we witness the personal betrayals and political intrigues that will finally drive them apart, culminating in Josephine's greatest tragedy: her divorce from Napoleon and his exile to Elba. The Last Great Dance on Earth is historical fiction on a grand scale and the stirring conclusion to an unforgettable love story.
Download or read book The Last Great Dance on Earth written by Sandra Gulland and published by Headline Review. This book was released on 2001 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, Napoléon Bonaparte and his beloved Joséphine inhabit the Tuileries Palace, sleeping in the bed of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. During the years they have been married it has been a time of extraordinary turmoil and triumph; a time of hope and disappointment in their desire for a child. Support for the First Consul has never been more ecstatic in the streets and in the Republic, but the machinations of the old regime mean the lives of Bonaparte and all those around him are in constant danger. And never more so than when Bonaparte becomes Emperor and Joséphine his Empress.
Download or read book The Last Great Dance on Earth written by Sandra Gulland and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the rise and fall of Napoleon's great empire, his personal life, and his exile to Elba through the eyes of Josephine Bonaparte.
Download or read book The Last Great Dance on Earth Mixed Carton written by Sandra Gulland and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only novelist invited to appear among a group of noted scholars and experts for a four-hour PBS documentary on Napoleon, Gulland knows her characters so well she inhabits their world, and her novels enable readers to do the same. The Last Great Dance on Earth brings to life Napoleon's grand empire, its rise and fall, and Josephine's greatest tragedy: her divorce from Napoleon and his exile to Elba. Written in a spare but compelling style with finely nuanced characters and vivid setting. The Last Great Dance on Earth is a brilliant feat of historical fiction that is difficult to put down and impossible to forget.
Download or read book Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance written by Lloyd Jones and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in Canada for the first time from the author of Mister Pip The two intertwined love stories in this brilliant novel take the reader from New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney, from the final days of WWI, to the present moment, and back again. Drawing on the intimate rhythms of the tango to find its shape, Jones has written a thrilling and sensuous essay on how we can fall in love, while brilliantly evoking the spare and windswept landscapes of New Zealand’s South Island and the stately sensuous contours of one of the world’s most famous dances.
Download or read book Last Night on Earth written by Bill T. Jones and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1997-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that is part memoir, part meditation, and part performance, "today's most daring choreographer" (NEWSWEEK) charts his dance's origins and development in the context of his remarkable life. "A breathtaking accomplishment. To the extent that any words can convey the experience of dance, Jones does so here, eloquently and with disarming honesty".SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Illustrated throughout.
Download or read book LAST GREAT DANCE ON EARTH written by SANDRA GULLAND. and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Josephine s Composer written by Andrew Everett MA and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
Download or read book The Game of Hope written by Sandra Gulland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Napoleon's stepdaughter, nothing is simple -- especially love. Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother's dashing fellow officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming mother Josephine has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by Hortense as a coarse, unworthy successor to her elegant father, who was guillotined during the Terror. Where will Hortense's future lie? Inspired by Hortense's real-life autobiography with charming glimpses of teen life long ago, this is the story of a girl chosen by fate to play a role she didn't choose.
Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Download or read book Paris written by and published by Fodor's Travel Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Wells, Saul Bellow, Jan Morris, and Mavis Gallant delight readers with the sights, sounds, and history of the City of Light. Unlike other travel guides, this book immerses readers in a place, culture, and people other than their own while offering a wealth of information every traveler needs.
Download or read book The Last Great War of Antiquity written by James Howard-Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period to form, for the first time, a coherent story of the dramatic events, key players, and vast lands over which the conflict spread.
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Download or read book Last Night on Earth written by Bill T. Jones and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in Bunnell, Florida, in 1952, the tenth of twelve children in a migrant worker's family, Bill T. Jones spent his early years traveling up and down the East Coast with his parents as they followed the crop seasons. In 1959 they settled in upstate New York, and it was there - singing rounds in dusty tractor yards and watching grown-ups from the shadows of the juke joint - that Jones began his life in dance." "Jones has continued to choreograph and dance, and in Last Night on Earth he documents the creation of several of his pieces, including Absence, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, Last Night on Earth, and Still/Here. Jones illuminates the process through which his work has become a way of expressing profound emotion; of exploring ideas around memory, sexuality, race, and mortality; of imposing order and beauty on chaos and despair. And in so doing, he shows dance to be not only a sequence of beautiful movements on a stage, but also an instrument of survival."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Mistress of the Sun written by Sandra Gulland and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV.
