Hot Gossip from Another Century

Descrição
Non fiction (narrative) history that's hilarious enraging scandalous or a combination of the above.
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nessreader, bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: A scandal that never broke--Munby was lucky that his double life never came to light.
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66 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.3
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702 membros
46 críticas
½ 3.4
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: Csath was an accomplished violinist and a doctor. He was also an addict and a compulsive womaniser who availed of his position in a spa to seduce one patient after another, and these journals were kept during that time. (It gets worse, as he later went on to murder his wife.)
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nessreader
Explicações
nessreader: Theatre critic writes v funny essays about shakespeare disasters.
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3,005 membros
67 críticas
3.8
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141 membros
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½ 3.3
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bluepiano
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bluepiano: A flawed book but worth reading for its subject, a dancer well-known in Weimar Germany.
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½ 3.6
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bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: More a matter for gossip than outrage. Interesting take on cross-dressing by a 17th-century abbe.
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½ 3.6
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44 membros
4.1
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28 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.4
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nessreader
Explicações
nessreader: The industrial revolution seen from underneath : a biography full of pity and rage
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280 membros
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nessreader
Explicações
nessreader: I have 2 biogs of jane digby and both have unnecessary breathless prose : the facts are adventuressy enough. Diehard romantic, serial monogamist, exiled from victorian britain to concubining for a king a brigand then marrying a much younger sheik and drumming up tourist business for his tribe.
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½ 4.3