Description
| Product ID: | 9780140296822 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Traces Remain |
| Subtitle: | Essays and Explorations |
| Authors: | Author: Charles Nicholl |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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, the author's twenty-five essays take in two murders, three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these historical traces. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-12-06 |