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“paul thomas murphy”

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  • Falling Rocket

    James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art

    by Paul Thomas Murphy ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceThe untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler’s controversial, ground-breaking Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket.In November 1878, America’s greatest painter sued England’s greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won—but ruined himself in the process. The painter: James ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane

    by Paul Thomas Murphy ...
    On April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling in the muddy road. She stretched out her hand to him, collapsed in the mud, muttered, “Let me die,” and slipped into a coma. Five days later, she died, her identity still unknown.Within hours of her discovery, scores of Metropolitan Police officers were involved in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane

    A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder

    by Paul Thomas Murphy ...
    Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    A vivid and violent investigation into a shocking and unsolved 1871 murder in London, by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Shooting VictoriaOn April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy road—gashes were cloven into her skull, her left cheek was slashed open and smashed in, her right eye was ... Read more

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    The American artist John Singer Sargent, widely considered the leading portrait painter of his generation, is celebrated for his paintings of Edwardian era luxury, landscape paintings and Impressionistic masterpieces. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume ... Read more

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  • Oscar Wilde

    A Life

    by Matthew Sturgis ...
    **The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life."Simply the best modern ... Read more

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  • Family Romance

    John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

    by Jean Strouse ...
    Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife ... Read more

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    The Real Jane Austen

    A Life in Small Things

    by Paula Byrne ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

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    The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things offers a startlingly original look at the revered writer through a variety of key moments, scenes, and objects in her life and work. Going beyond previous traditional biographies which have traced Austen’s daily life from Steventon to Bath to Chawton to Winchester, Paula Byrne’s portrait—organized thematically and drawn from the most up-to-date ... Read more

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  • Oscar Wilde

    A Life in Letters

    by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde ...
    Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

    by Peter Russell, James Abbott McNeill Whistler ...
    Series Book 39 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The American James Abbott McNeill Whistler was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, establishing himself as a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler entitled many of his paintings with musical names, emphasising the primacy of tonal harmony. His innovative and modern approach to art, at times resulting in ... Read more

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  • Edith Wharton

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    From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born ... Read more

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  • The Arts & Crafts Movement

    Design, craftsmanship, and beauty in daily life

    by Oscar Lovell Triggs ...
    “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Gainsborough (Illustrated)

    by Thomas Gainsborough, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 28 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a founder of the British landscape school, Gainsborough sought to change the artistic tastes of his day, establishing an original and innovative approach to high art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, ... Read more

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