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Anna Beer

    Eve Bites Back
    Milton
    Sounds and Sweet Airs
    • Eve Bites Back

      • 368 stron
      • 13 godzin czytania

      The lives and achievements of eight women writers - a startling and unconventional history of literature

      Eve Bites Back2022
      3,8
    • Sounds and Sweet Airs

      • 348 stron
      • 13 godzin czytania

      The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world

      Sounds and Sweet Airs2017
      4,1
    • Milton

      • 458 stron
      • 17 godzin czytania

      John Milton was one of the world's greatest poets, the renowned author of Paradise Lost. But he was also deeply involved in political and religious controversies of his time, and authored a series of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and civil rights that proposed a rethinking of the nature and practice of government. In countless biographies, Milton has been crudely sketched either as a blind, saintly artist or as a domestic tyrant. Yet as Anna Beer shows, he was neither ogre nor paragon. By closely examining all aspects of Milton's life and its social historical context, Beer succeeds in bringing an enigmatic pillar of English literature to life, four centuries after his birth.

      Milton2009
      3,7