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Cleopatra: A Life

Overview

Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialties. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. With Antony she would attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled both their ends.

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Author Information

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupery, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in New York City.

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    Brings the story of a seminal figure in history to brilliant life. I learned many many new facts about the Romans, the Egyptians, the Jews...the center of the 'western world.' Highly recommend.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Little, Brown and Company

  • Publish Date

    October 31, 2010 

  • Print ISBN

    9780316001946

  • eBook ISBN

    9780316121804

  • Imprint

    Little, Brown and Company

  • Filesize

    4.13 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    400

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