Pegasus Books: 742 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.
Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s French detective...
by John Gaudet
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
A thought-provoking history of papyrus paper—from its origins in Egypt to its spread throughout the world—revealing how it helped usher in a new era of human history.
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the...
by Thomas Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists
Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered...
by Ian Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The second volume in Ian Bell's magisterial two-part biography of the ever-evolving and enigmatic Bob Dylan
By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain...
Hitler's Spy Chief
The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A remarkable tale of espionage and intrigue—the true story of Hitler’s intelligence chief and his role in the conspiracy to assassinate the Führer.
Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Adolf Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came...
The Last Jew of Treblinka
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From one of the lone survivors of the Treblinka concentration camp comes a devastating memoir of the Holocaust in the tradition of Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz**.**
Why did some live while so many others perished? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls—in the gas chambers of Treblinka,...
Dinner with Churchill
Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This engaging biography invites readers to dinner with Winston Churchill and his political guests in the years surrounding WWII.
A friend once said of Winston Churchill: “He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.” But for Churchill, dinners...
Queens Consort
England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
“A compelling trek through English history in the company of some remarkable women.” —Kirkus Reviews
Though their royal husbands occupy the lion’s share of history books, the queens of early England are fascinating subjects in their own right. Lisa Hilton’s Queens Consort vividly...
The Venetians
A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
A “useful and informative introduction” to the independent Republic of Venice—the first great economic and cultural power of the modern Western world (Booklist).
After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic of Venice enjoyed centuries of unprecedented...
by Elizabeth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era?
The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time...
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...