Pegasus: 922 books
Piero's Light
In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a “true science.”
Although only sixteen of Piero’s works survive, few art historians...
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
It is said that the greatest con man in the world is the one who has never been caught—and here for the first time is the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger
Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...
Nijinsky
A Life of Genius and Madness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A story of triumph and tragedy, hailed as “the definitive biography” of ballet’s greatest male dancer (The Times Literary Supplement).
From Richard Buckle, one of the all-time leading authorities on golden-era Russian dance, Nijinsky is an account of the rise and fall of perhaps the most...
Once Upon a Time
The Lives of Bob Dylan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first volume in this “knotty, beguiling, contrary” account of the American music legend “could be the most vital Dylan biography yet” (The Guardian).
Half a century ago, a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. The world is still coming to terms...
by Roberta Gately
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The acclaimed author of Lipstick in Afghanistan weaves together the unforgettable stories of the people she helped heal in some of the most troubled places on Earth in a gripping memoir that celebrates our shared humanity.**
Roberta Gately is a nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served...
by Laura Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
AN EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FINALIST
**The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. **
It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created...
The Brontës
Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A “brilliant” biography of the Brontë family, dispelling popular myths and revealing the true story of Emily, Anne, Charlotte, and their father (The Independent on Sunday).
The tragic story of the Brontë family has been told many times: the half-mad, repressive father; the drunken, drug-addicted...
by Matthew Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond.
For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand...
Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A remarkable literary hybrid—part biography, part detective story—about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe
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Where did Crusoe come from? Frank explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their...
The Wives
The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
An “intriguing collection of biographies of six extraordinary women . . . Fascinating proof that being a writer’s wife is a profession in itself” (Kirkus Reviews).
“Behind every good man is a good woman” is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relationship between...
by Andrew McConnell Stott
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Love affairs, literary rivalries, and the supernatural collide in an inspired journey to Lake Geneva, where Byron, the Shelleys, and John Polidori come together to create literature’s greatest monsters
In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most...
by Brian Boeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.
Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most contentious recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a young man, Sholokhov’s epic novel, Quiet Don, became an unprecedented...
Tennyson
To Strive, to Seek, to Find
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This biography of the poet is “acute in its examination of Tennyson’s character and his importance for Victorian culture” (The Times Literary Supplement).
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria’s favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was...
Confucius
A Throneless King
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
An illuminating portrait of Confucius’s life and philosophical teachings
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Confucius is one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a man whose philosophies have shaped world culture. Often overlooked outside his native country, Confucius himself was a fascinating...