Matthew Sweet: The Great Dictator, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Great Dictator
- A Life of Barbara Cartland
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- Verlag:
- Running Press Kids, 09/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781399715805
- Artikelnummer:
- 12806004
- Umfang:
- 320 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 444 g
- Maße:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 10.9.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Penniless virgins. Reckless dukes. Flappers. Airmen. Suffragettes. Barbara Cartland made them fall in love. She wrote 723 books without touching a typewriter: instead, she reclined on her sofa with a Pekinese on her lap - and romantic fiction billowed out of her.
This dazzling biography reveals the woman behind the powder and mascara - a clever, socially precarious writer navigating a twentieth-century world of war-damaged men, class conflict and sexual peril.
After 49 proposals, she chose the wrong one. What followed was a life stranger than any of her novels.
From country house weekends to Fleet Street offices, from Mayfair bedrooms to the divorce court, Matthew Sweet traces Cartland's extraordinary journey through a century of upheaval. Here are terrorist plots, psychic seances, suppressed scandals, plagiarism battles in the cutthroat world of romance publishing - and a surprising turn as a campaigner for Romany rights.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Cartland's vast archives and firsthand accounts from those who knew her, Sweet delivers a wonderfully entertaining study of class, fame, scandal and self-aggrandisement. Part satire, part biography, part social history, The Great Dictator reveals how a literary legend was made.
