RECKONING, THE

Biographies & Memoirs

Nicholl, Charles

Professionals & Academics

Vintage Books

The Creature in the Map

History

Americas

London: Vintage Books, 1996

Reprint of the Viking edition of 1989. Memoirs of a pilgrim along the Mekong R. and into Burma. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma (Penguin Travel Library)

Travel

Asia

Penguin??Books

History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The Reckoning, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes, and curious, intriguing puzzles.   From a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist, and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado, Nicholl's twenty-five fascinating essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these wonderful historical traces.   'Our finest literary and historical detective ... Deliciously readable' Financial Times  'Charles Nicholl confirms his role as literature's historic Holmes ... thoroughly captivating' Scotsman     'Some writers are so good at what they do that they can take you anywhere. Charles Nicholl is one of them' Irish Times

Traces Remain

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Uk

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made many discoveries about him, his work and his circle of associates. The book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, his homosexual affairs in Florence, and his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. This is a masterpiece of modern biography.

Leonardo da Vinci: Penguin UK Edition

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

In this engaging and thoroughly researched biography, Charles Nicholl uncovers the man behind the myth of the great Renaissance master. At times a painter, sculptor, inventor, draftsman, and anatomist, Leonardo’s life cannot easily be summarized. And yet, Nicholl skillfully traces the artist’s early days as an illegitimate child in Tuscany; his apprenticeship with Verrocchio in Florence; his service with some of the most powerful Renaissance families; his relationships with Michelangelo and Machiavelli; and his final days at the French royal court. In addition, Nicholl looks beyond the well-known stories of Leonardo’s famous masterpieces, and gives us a glimpse into the artist’s everyday life. We learn of Leonardo’s penchant for jokes, his fascination with flight, his obsessive note making, and even what he ate. Nicholl weaves these details together in a fascinating portrait that goes far towards revealing the enigmatic figure who continues to fascinate present-day readers.

Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind

Humor & Entertainment

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 Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked amid the bustle of early seventeenth-century London. This elegant, often unexpected exploration presents a new and original look at Shakespeare as he was writing such masterpieces as Othello, Measure for Measure, and King Lear.

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

Arts & Literature

Penguin Publishing Group

A first full-length investigation into the death of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century author tragically stabbed to death in a lodging house, reveals the secrets behind the enigmatic literary legend.

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

Europe

Harcourt

Dust jacket creased and worn, some marking to page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Reckoning

HARCOURT, BRACE

South America

JONATHAN CAPE.

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