Cleopatra, la última reina de Egipto, es una de las mujeres más misteriosas de la historia: pese a que todos reconocemos su nombre, apenas sabemos nada de ella. La leyenda la retrata como una sirena seductora, olvidando que, por encima de todo, Cleopatra fue una astuta estratega y una negociadora ingeniosa, una gobernanta capaz de dirigir una flota, de suprimir una revuelta popular, de controlar las oscilaciones de la moneda y de combatir la hambruna de su pueblo.Stacy Schiff ha recuperado las fuentes clásicas y ha separado los hechos de la ficción para rescatar a la carismática reina cuya muerte instauró un nuevo orden mundial una generación antes del nacimientode Cristo. Rica en ...
Cleopatra, la última reina de Egipto, es una de las mujeres más misteriosas de la historia: pese a que todos reconocemos su nombre, apenas sabemos nada de ella. La leyenda la retrata como una sirena seductora, olvidando que, por encima de todo, Cleopatra fue una astuta estratega y una negociadora ingeniosa, una gobernanta capaz de dirigir una flota, de suprimir una revuelta popular, de controlar las oscilaciones de la moneda y de combatir la hambruna de su pueblo.Stacy Schiff ha recuperado las fuentes clásicas y ha separado los hechos de la ficción para rescatar a la carismática reina cuya muerte instauró un nuevo orden mundial una generación antes del nacimientode Cristo. Rica en detalle, de alcance épico, la obra de Schiff es una luminosa y original reconstrucción de una vida deslumbrante.
"What a brilliant book. Stacy Schiff has written a masterpiece."
Anita Shreve on Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (1999)
"Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast."
"Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast."
David McCullough
"Superb, spirited, enthralling. For anyone who enjoys a fascinating life-story well told, this is a book not to be missed."
Joseph J. Ellis
"This is a book to savor. Schiff has given a genuine jolt to the recent surge of interest in Franklin, along the way demonstrating why she is generally regarded as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today."
Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a fellow at the center for Scholars & Writers, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Schiff has contributed to The New Yorker andThe New York Times, where she has been an op-ed columnist. She lives in New York City.
Biography
Stacy Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2000, and Saint-Exupery. which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Schiff's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City.
Author biograpy courtesy of Henry Holt and Company.
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Cleopatra, la última reina de Egipto, es una de las mujeres más misteriosas de la historia: pese a que todos reconocemos su nombre, apenas sabemos nada de ella. La leyenda la retrata como una sirena seductora, olvidando que, por encima de todo, Cleopatra fue una astuta estratega y una negociadora ingeniosa, una gobernanta capaz de dirigir una flota, de suprimir una revuelta popular, de controlar las oscilaciones de la moneda y de combatir la hambruna de su pueblo.Stacy Schiff ha recuperado las fuentes clásicas y ha separado los hechos de la ficción para rescatar a la carismática reina cuya muerte instauró un nuevo orden mundial una generación antes del nacimientode Cristo. Rica en ...