Cleopatra: A Life (Audiobook, MP3) by Stacy Schiff
Her palace shimmered with gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Cleopatra, the wealthiest ruler of her time and one of the most powerful women in history, was a canny political strategist, a brilliant manager, a tough negotiator, and the most manipulative of lovers. Although her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
Added by: iloveenglishtips | Karma: 3584.11 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2012
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This book ushers you into many worlds, all of them our world. It is full of voices, sounds, and people. Stay with them, and they will stay with you. The stories here represent eight tenths of a year. A year that kept slipping, yet also kept giving.Their writers gave them freely, and we do, too.Like all stories, they work in a thousand ways. Some lull, some lure. Some pinch, some stretch.Some are like a thicket, some a formal garden; others seem like valleys slick with rain. All replenish and reward.
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker's twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.
Alan Bennett - Forty Years On Bennett stars in a new production of his own acclaimed satirical comedy. In this play within a play, the Headmaster of Albion House takes part in the end-of-year entertainment for the last time before his retirement. It exposes the timeless misunderstanding of one generation by another.
