Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner

9 best books like Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner (Franny Moyle): Leonardo da Vinci, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Riddley Walker, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Shakespeare the Thinker, The World of Christopher Marlowe, Rendez-vous with Art, Hamlet in Purgatory, Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

Leonardo da Vinci

Author	Walter Isaacson
ISBN	1501139150

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful...

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Author

Jon Meacham

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and...

Riddley Walker

Author	Russell Hoban
ISBN	0253212340

Fionnuala wrote: "Ah, you wouldn't be 'fixing' it, not, but you know that of course!
No, you'd be doing an interesting exercise for yourself, maybe for me who'd be curious to read your 'transliteration', even a pag..."

Alan is sure it would be ruined but he's a writer, who aren't necessarily...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Author

Winifred Watson

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew...

Shakespeare the Thinker

Author	A.D. Nuttall
ISBN	0300119283

A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity...

The World of Christopher Marlowe

Author	David Riggs
ISBN	0805080368

"Riggs brings it all together brilliantly, assembling all evidence of Marlowe's life and adding to that a wider and deeper focus . . . Superb."--Los Angeles Times

The World of Christopher Marlowe is the story of the troubled genius, raised in the stench and poverty of Canterbury's abbatoirs,...

Rendez-vous with Art

Author

Philippe de Montebello

Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper—all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago—this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art?



Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their...

Hamlet in Purgatory

Author	Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN	0691102570

Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative...

Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

Author	Patricia Hampl
ISBN	0151015066

Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl’s girlhood, free and untouchable,...