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Biografier giver dig adgang til ægte livsfortællinger og skæbner, der har sat deres præg på verden. Her finder du bøger om både nulevende og historiske personer - fra de magtfulde til de misforståede, fra kendte navne til hverdagens helte. Vores udvalg rummer inspirerende historier om mod, passion og vilje, hvor virkelighedens stemmer får plads. Uanset om du søger en biografi med indhold til samlingen, en rørende gave eller blot ønsker at læse om mennesker, der har ændret verden, er der masser at vælge imellem. Find din næste biografi hos WilliamDam.dk og oplev fortællinger, der berører og sætter sig fast.
This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anne Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.
First published in 1935, this book presents an account of Alexander the Great drawn almost exclusively from the writings of the Roman... Læs mere
The author of 'monumental and supreme' histories, Edward Gibbon was a son of the Enlightenment and the father of modern historical scholarship. Published in 1878, Morison's biography provides a... Læs mere
Edward William Lane (1801–76) is best remembered for his mighty Arabic–English Lexicon and classic translation of One Thousand and One Nights. This 1877 biography by his... Læs mere
This book, first published in 1914, examines the life of Socrates and his teaching, and also details the world in which he lived, the Greece of the time experiencing a breakdown of authority in religion, morality and society.
This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology.
In this text, the authors look at the historical Cleopatra, at images of Cleopatra as a Greek queen and as ruler of Egypt, at contemporary perceptions of her and at how we see her today.
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities.
The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would continue. This... Læs mere
This book, first published in 1984, is a detailed biography of Solzhenitsyn. It covers every period of his life, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn’s life to his works.