Tag: Biography

Art Lover A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim


Free Download Anton Gill, "Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim"
English | ISBN: 006095681X | 2003 | 528 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Peggy Guggenheim – millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser – was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century.

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Madonna An Intimate Biography of an Icon at Sixty


Free Download J. Randy Taraborrelli, "Madonna: An Intimate Biography of an Icon at Sixty"
English | ISBN: 1509842802 | 2019 | 528 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
For more than three decades, Madonna has been generating headlines and topping charts. Now J. Randy Taraborrelli has written the definitive biography of one of the richest and most successful pop stars in the world, whose music has constantly evolved and who has remained relevant even as she hits her sixtieth year.

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I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn The Biography of Sandy Denny


Free Download Mick Houghton, "I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0571278914, 0571278906 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 5.0 mb
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk-rock when she joined Fairport Convention in 1968, but her music went far beyond this during the seventies. After leaving Fairport she formed Fotheringay, whose influential eponymous album was released in 1970, before collaborating on a historic one-off recording with Led Zeppelin – the only other vocalist to record with Zeppelin in their entire career – and releasing four solo albums across the course of the decade. Her tragic and untimely death came in 1978.

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Let’s Do It The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood (2024)


Free Download Jasper Rees, "Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood"
English | 2020 | pages: 356 | ISBN: 1409184099, 1409184110 | EPUB | 4,2 mb
‘I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitter comment on the state of our society but it’s not quite me so I think I shall write a heart-warming story with laughter behind the tears and tears behind the laughter which means hysterics to you Philistines…’

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Aldous Huxley A Biography


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English | March 24, 2003 | ISBN: 0312302371 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 1.9 MB
When Aldous Huxley died on November 22, 1963, on the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, he was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and wide-ranging English writers of the twentieth century. Associated in the public mind with his dystopian satire, Brave New World, and experimentation with drugs that preceded the psychedelic, a term he invented, era of the 1960s, Huxley seemed to embody the condition of twentieth-century man in his restless curiosity, his search for meaning in a post-religious age, and his concern about the misuses of science and the future of the planet.

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Nietzsche and the Earth Biography, Ecology, Politics


Free Download Henk Manschot, "Nietzsche and the Earth: Biography, Ecology, Politics"
English | ISBN: 1350134392 | 2020 | 200 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) loved nature and his daily walks in the Swiss Mountains and by the Mediterranean Sea heavily influenced his writing, and particularly his most famous book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. By following the philosopher on these ramblings and reflecting on Zarathustra’s (Nietzsche’s alter ego) surprising interactions with the animals he meets on his way, Henk Manschot cleverly shows how all these experiences were reflected in the philosopher’s thinking on the relationship between human beings and the Earth.

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