Ann Wroe: 6 books

Book cover of Pontius Pilate
by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2000

Pontius Pilate arrived in Judaea in the year 26, sent to collect taxes and oversee the firm establishment of Roman law. His ten-year term was a time of relative peace in this fractious new outpost of the Roman Empire, where violence was not uncommon. He was not loved and not quite feared, and might...
Book cover of The Perfect Prince

The Perfect Prince

Truth and Deception in Renaissance Europe

by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king. The most intriguing...
Book cover of Being Shelley

Being Shelley

The Poet's Search for Himself

by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

From Ann Wroe, a biographer of the first rank, comes a startlingly original look at one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition. Being Shelley aims to turn the poet's life inside out: rather than tracing the external events of his life, she tracks the inner journey of a spirit struggling to...
Book cover of Orpheus

Orpheus

The Song of Life

by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012

“[A] startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today” (Library Journal).   For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian,...
Book cover of A Fool and His Money

A Fool and His Money

Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century France

by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

In A Fool and His Money, Ann Wroe brings to life a rich and perplexing culture of a city physically divided-as so many communities are today-by political factions in this skillful re-creation of fourteenth-century Rodez. Notes, bibliography.
Book cover of Six Facets Of Light
by Ann Wroe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

‘She’s a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.’ Hilary Mantel A Spectator Book of the Year Goethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo and Einstein both confessed they didn’t. On the essential nature of light, and how it operates, the scientific...
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