- Published: 1 May 2007
- ISBN: 9780099462347
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 608
- RRP: $39.99
Catherine The Great
Love, Sex, and Power
- Published: 1 May 2007
- ISBN: 9780099462347
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 608
- RRP: $39.99
Enjoyable and perceptive study ... Rounding has read widely, and writes punctilious, professional history with a no-nonsense style and a respectful relish for the details that make the past come alive.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Telegraph
Rounding writes with enviable lucidity, and gives us the most accessible and enjoyable portrait yet.
Daily Mail
A great thumping triumph of a book.
Daily Telegraph
Rounding shows that ... the reality is far more interesting than any of the fictions.
Scotland on Sunday
Written with vigour and intelligence enough to do justice to its prodigious subject.
Sunday Times
Rounding's respectful take is highly appropriate ... Through her eyes, we see a woman committed to Enlightenment values ... Catherine was both a highly sexual woman and an intellectual; there is nothing anyone need add to her story. It is all there.
Scotsman
Densely detailed and always absorbing.
Western Daily Press
For a sense of Catherine's intimate life, sexual appetites, preoccupations, ruthlessness, intellectual scope, sentimentality and dedication, this is a great piece of work.
FT Magazine