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Flights of the Mind
In this new, intimate biography, award-winning author Nicholl creates a portrait of the artist for our time--a biography that brings Leonardo to life ...
Essays and Explorations
In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned h...
The Flights of the Mind
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation,...
Shakespeare on Silver Street
In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems ro...
His Life on Silver Street
In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The L...
The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were ...
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Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91
This is a biographical study of Arthur Rimbaud's lost years, the years after he turned his back on poetry, fame and France, for a life of wandering an...
A Journey to El Dorado
IntroductionPart One: The Guiana Voyage1. Mapping El Dorado2. Ralegh's America3. A Gentleman of Spain4. Love and Exile5. Preparations6. The Crew7. Atl...
A Journey in Thailand and Burma
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also...
The Life of Thomas Nashe
Writer Charles Nicholl undertakes a nervy quest into the dangerous underworld of Colombia's billion-dollar cocaine smuggling enterprise where he encou...
- The first ever biography of Shakespeare, published here for the first time in its original form - Written using archival research and interviews wit...
Part of the Character Sketches series, this title looks at Elizabethan writers. The series features compact guides devoted to literary, artistic and h...