Hľadanie: Elizabeth Goudgeová
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Disobedient
A young woman is put on trail. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being a immoral liar. What really happened, and why will this trial scandalise seventeenth-century Rome?
'This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.'
Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on constant display. A city where women are seen but not heard.
Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a family of painters - men and boys. She knows she is more talented than her brothers, but she cannot choose her own future. She belongs to her father and will belong to a husband.
As Artemisia patiently goes from lesson to lesson, perfecting her craft, a mysterious tutor enters her life. Tassi is a dashing figure, handsome and worldly, and for a moment he represents everything that a life of freedom might offer. But then the unthinkable happens. A violent act that threatens Artemisia's honour, and her virtue.
In the eyes of her family, Artemisia should accept her fate. In the eyes of the law, she is the villain.
But Artemisia is a survivor. And this is her story to tell.
Vétkek és vezeklések Ruth története
Ruth Hilton egyszerű gazdálkodók szépséges leányaként cseperedik a család vidéki farmján. Ábrándos gyermekkora azonban egy csapásra lesz semmivé, amikor előbb édesanyját, majd édesapját is elveszíti. Gyámja varróleánynak adja egy kisvárosi ruhaszalonba. A magányos hölgy ifjúsága virágos vidékére vágyik vissza az úri szabóság rideg falai közül. Kisvártatva elragadja a szerelem, de tapasztalatlan lelke nem talál jó gazdára Mr. Bellingham, a vagyonos kalandor személyében: románca a jellemtelen férfival megpecsételi a sorsát. Az eldobott szerető élete kis híján tragédiába torkollik, ám kétségbeesett helyzetében fölkarolja egy lelkész, s magához veszi ecclestoni otthonukba. Ettől a naptól kezdve csak azon buzgólkodik, hogy jóvátegye leánykori botlását és szeretetben nevelje föl kisfiát. Tehetsége, szorgalma és állhatatossága révén idővel elismert és csodált nevelőnővé küzdi föl magát. Ám múltja kísértetei előbukkannak, s nehezen megszerzett becsületétől és nevelőnői tisztségétől is megfosztják. Kevés megmaradt barátja támogatásával azonban életét mások szolgálatába állítja, s vezeklése révén elnyeri az igaz életet és Eccleston elismerését - ha nem is a leghagyományosabb módon és a legnagyobb boldogság közepette. Ruth története az emberi botlás, az újrakezdés és a megbocsátás romantikus históriája a 18-19. századi Anglia kisvárosi díszletei között, a humanista Elizabeth Gaskell kiváló tollából, megannyi izgalmas fordulattal és megrendítő tanulsággal.
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Kopfuber in die kissen
Eines wird der englischen Lady Emma Wells-Finch auf dem Flughafen in Texas sofort klar: Die Anstandslektionen, mit denen sie den rüpelhaften Sportler Kenny Traveler vor dem abrupten Ende seiner Karriere retten soll, werden bei diesem verlotterten Playboy
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Versace: Príbeh ikonickej módnej značky
Unikátny obrazový sprievodca históriou módnej značky Versace
Gianni Versace bol jedným z najvýznamnejších módnych inovátorov všetkých čias: hviezda medzi návrhármi a vizionár. Bol to umelec zanietený pre svoju prácu, ktorý sa nebál riskovať a porušovať pravidlá, aby vytvoril krásu na predvádzacom móle. Pripisuje sa mu aj vytvorenie konceptu supermodeliek, keďže na prehliadkach exkluzívne spolupracoval s významnými modelkami, ktoré zapájal aj do módnych kampaní. Jeho značka bola od začiatku rodinnou značkou, stala sa neoddeliteľnou súčasťou jeho úspechu a poskytla mu pevný základ a pocit identity. S hlbokými koreňmi v popkultúre stála na pozadí nezabudnuteľných momentov moderného štýlu, či už to boli šaty Elizabeth Hurleyovej zopnuté špendlíkmi, obálka časopisu Harper’s Bazaar s princeznou Dianou, alebo zelená róba Jennifer Lopezovej.
Knižka rozpráva príbeh ikonického módneho domu od jeho založenia Giannim Versacem až po dnešné kultové postavenie pod vedením Donatelly. Je úžasnou zbierkou viac ako 100 momentov z červeného koberca, kľúčových modelov a ohromujúcich módnych prehliadok. Text dopĺňajú desiatky starostlivo vybraných fotografií.
Z anglického originálu preložila Adriana Špilová.
Kopfüber in die Kissen
Schon bei der Ankunft auf dem Flughafen in Texas wird der englischen Lady Emma Wells-Finch eines klar: keine Spur von Disziplin und Würde bei diesem athletischen Sonnyboy Kenny Traveler. Zum Glück! Denn während jedermann hofft, dass ihre Auslandslektionen
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Se veled se nélküled
Gracie harmincéves és még szűz. A szülei annak idején egy aggok otthonát vezettek, s a lányt éjjel-nappal idős emberek vették körül. Édesanyja pedig gyakorta mondogatta neki, hogy női ágon hozzájuk hasonlóan valamennyi felmenőjük jelentéktelen külsejű volt. Apja halála után az édesanyja túlad az öregotthonon, és lányával Floridába költözik, ahol Gracie-nek életében először a saját lábára kell állnia. Úgy véli, egy filmstúdiónál szerzett produkciós asszisztensi állásával unalmas hétköznapjaiból jegyet váltott a kalandok csillogó világába. Ám azonnal minden a feje tetejére áll, amikor első megbízatásaként a stúdió legújabb filmjének leendő sztárját, a futballikon Bobby Tomot kell rávennie arra, hogy időben jelenjen meg a forgatáson és teljesítse a szerződését.
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Avedon 100
Avedon 100 celebrates Richard Avedon’s enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide.
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Gagosian, New York, in 2023, this striking illustrated catalog celebrates the centenary of the iconic photographer’s birth. Over one hundred celebrated artists, designers, musicians, writers, curators, and figures from the world of fashion were asked to select a photograph by Avedon and elaborate on the ways in which both the image and artist have made an impact on their lives. Participants include Hilton Als, Naomi Campbell, Elton John, Spike Lee, Sally Mann, Polly Mellen, Kate Moss, Chloë Sevigny, Taryn Simon, Christy Turlington, and Jonas Wood.
Avedon 100 celebrates Avedon’s enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide. The book represents various periods from his oeuvre, including the widely known In the American West series, images of the social justice movement, classic portraiture, advertising, and fashion work. The photographs reproduced reveal the enormous and fascinating diversity of Avedon’s subjects, while the commentary offered by the celebrated selectors underscores the breadth and longevity of his legacy.
Avedon 100 includes a foreword by Larry Gagosian, texts by Derek Blasberg and Jake Skeets, and an essay by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.
Young Queens
WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots – three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men.
Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions.
Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by soldiers intent on seizing the key to power in Florence – Catherine herself, a girl barely 11 years old. It ends with her as the controversial queen mother of France, a woman both revered and reviled.
Mary, Queen of Scots' story begins in Scotland and ends in England. A queen turned traitor, from the confines of her English prison she longs for the idyll of her childhood in France.
Elisabeth de Valois' story begins in France, where she is born the beloved daughter of a king. It ends tragically in Spain as a cherished queen consort and mother – one who must make the ultimate sacrifice for her kingdom.
Catherine, Mary and Elisabeth lived at the French court together for many years before scattering to different kingdoms. These years bound them to one another through blood and marriage, alliance and friendship, love and filial piety; bonds that were tested when the women were forced to part and take on new roles. To rule, they would learn, was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. A crown could exalt a young woman. Equally, it could destroy her.
Drawing on new archival research, Young Queens masterfully weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one, revealing their hopes, dreams, desires and regrets in a time when even the most powerful women lived at the mercy of the state.
Carolina Herrera - ColormaniaColor and Fashion
Inspired by the fearless and fabulous Carolina Herrera woman, Wes Gordon partners with Elizaveta Porodina on painterly images merging bold colors and timeless beauty in a cinematic style.
The sophistication and modern femininity of the American luxury fashion house Carolina Herrera is captured in this evocative and vividly hued volume photographed by Elizaveta Porodina. A collaborative series of images, the first chapter of which was created in 2020 over Zoom, feature Porodina’s signature timeless, painterly style—an effect achieved through complex lighting techniques and equipment— capture the brand’s evolving collections designed by Creative Director Wes Gordon in a dreamy, otherworldly light.
Inspired by dance, movement and the Herrera signature of bold color, this mesmerizing tome is flooded with photography of models and dancers in motion to reflect the vibrant energy and optimism of the clothing, arranged according to the chroma wheel instead of chronologically. Ethereal beauties, including singer and actress Dove Cameron, dancers Wendy Wheelan and Misa Kuranaga, and models Maggie Maurer and Mao Xing Xing, wear sweeping ballgowns, bold, saturated colors and dramatic silhouettes across ten collections designed by Wes Gordon over the past four years, capturing the fantastical universe of Beauty that is Carolina Herrera.
Toast
Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic food memoir, detailing all the food, recipes and cooking that have marked Nigel’s passage from greedy schoolboy to great food writer.
Whether relating his mother’s ritual burning of the toast, his father’s dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something of a status symbol in Wolverhampton), this incredibly moving and deliciously evocative memoir of childhood, adolescence and sexual awakening vividly recreates daily life in sixties and seventies suburban England.
Now featuring an introduction from Elizabeth Day, new photographs and a long afterword by Nigel Slater, this modern classic will continue to captivate readers for decades to come.
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Celebrities
In the last sixty years certain celebrities have really left an indelible mark on history: Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Barack Obama, Marilyn Monroe, Picasso, Yoko Ono...This book represents a stroll through this aspect of popular culture - a compilation of biographical photographs of over 300 celebrities (actors, artists, pop stars, politicians, models, media stars) who will always be unforgettable. Illustrated throughout with over 400 full colour and black-and-white iconic photographs.
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Shakespeare's Sisters
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own.'
In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may have heard of Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney, but few will have heard of Aemilia Lanyer, the first woman in the 17th century to publish a book of original poetry, which offered a feminist take on the crucifixion, or Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman, about the plight of the Jewish princess Mariam. Then there was Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist, who fought for decades against a patriarchy that tried to rob her of her land in one of England's most infamous inheritance battles.
These women had husbands and children to care for and little support for their art, yet against all odds they defined themselves as writers, finding rooms of their own where doors had been shut for centuries.
Targoff flings them open to uncover the treasures left by these extraordinary women; in the process, she helps us see the Renaissance in a fresh light, creating a richer understanding of history and offering a much-needed female perspective on life in Shakespeare's day.
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Second World War Poems
The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust - Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan - and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets - Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova - exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.
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The Seven Deadly Sins Manga Box Set 5
If you’ve been waiting to collect the manga that became the hit Netflix Original Anime The Seven Deadly Sins, or you’re looking for the perfect gift for a Sins-obsessed loved one, look no further: This collector’s box set contains Vol. 29-35 of The Seven Deadly Sins as well an exclusive, reversible poster!
When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were framed by the king’s guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne! Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom.
The fifth of six sets, this special collector’s box features beautiful, color art of the Sins themselves, and contains Vols. 29-35 of the manga, as well as an exclusive, reversible poster.
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