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ISBN: 9780099485155 - How to Live Bestseller How to Live
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 009948515X  ISBN13: 9780099485155
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jan 2011
How to get on well with people, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought. This biography of... More

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ISBN: 9780099438069 - The English Dane The English Dane
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 0099438062  ISBN13: 9780099438069
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Mar 2006
Using letters and other sources, this book tells the nineteenth-century adventure about Jorgen Jorgenson, a Dane who made Britain his adopted country. Restless for adventure, he began his career by sailing to establish the new colony of Tasmania. More

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ISBN: 9781445858708 - How to Live How to Live
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 1445858703  ISBN13: 9781445858708
Publisher: AudioGO Limited Windsor
Edition: Large type edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2011
Relates the story of Montaigne's life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. This book traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boetie. More

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ISBN: 9781445858715 - How to Live How to Live
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 1445858711  ISBN13: 9781445858715
Publisher: AudioGO Limited Paragon
Edition: Large type edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2012
Relates the story of Montaigne's life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. This book traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boetie. More

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ISBN: 9780099286639 - The Smart The Smart
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 0099286637  ISBN13: 9780099286639
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Feb 2002
Britain was on the verge of war with America, yet foreign affairs were far from the thoughts of Londoners, spellbound by the proceedings of two spectacular trials, one involving a strange pair of twins, and the other an elegant young woman. More

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ISBN: 9780099546795 - The Smart The Smart
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 0099546795  ISBN13: 9780099546795
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2009

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ISBN: 9780701173401 - The English Dane The English Dane
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 0701173408  ISBN13: 9780701173401
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Mar 2005
Jorgen Jorgenson was a Dane who made Britain his adopted country. Restless for adventure and inspired by his hero Captain Cook, he came to London, and at twenty-three was among the small party who established a new colony - Tasmania. More

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ISBN: 9780701178925 - How to Live How to Live
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 0701178922  ISBN13: 9780701178925
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 Jan 2010
This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing... More

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ISBN: 9780701171094 - The Smart The Smart
Sarah Bakewell

ISBN10: 070117109X  ISBN13: 9780701171094
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Apr 2001
The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to marry a soldier, comes to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute, a great risk... More

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ISBN: 9780099546795 - Smart Smart
Bakewell, Sarah

ISBN10: 9781446483671  ISBN13: 9781446483671
Publisher: Random House Vintage Digital
Format: Electronic Book
'Sarah Bakewell has written a scholarly biography that reads like a detective novel with a historical setting ... full of sharp pen-portraits, lively asides and quirky details ... every bit as colourful and enjoyable as the title suggests'... More