[]
Cleopatra
Play sample
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114719
  • Imprint: Virgin Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

Cleopatra

Formats & editions
EBook
30 Nov 2011
Audiobook
26 Jan 2012
Paperback
1 Sept 2011
Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

The massive bestselling life story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt - 350,000 hardbacks sold in 22 weeks on New York Times List

*The New York Times Bestseller*

A dazzling reassessment of the most iconic - and maligned - woman in history.

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and ingenuity have been lost.

Now, in a masterly return to the classical sources, Pulitzer Prizewinner Stacy Schiff separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.

'An inspired combination of carefully parsed texts, new research and pulse-quickening descriptive writing ... Spellbinding' Guardian

'Imaginative, energetic, evocative' Daily Telegraph
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114719
  • Imprint: Virgin Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

About the author

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Excupéry, a Pulitzer Prizefinalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America,winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Améruque. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director's Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She was awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other publications. She lives in New York City.
portrait photo of Stacy Schiff

Also by Stacy Schiff

Saint-Exupery
See all