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The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780007213962
- Book Title
- The Pike: Gabriele D'annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- History
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 490g
- Number of Pages
- 704 Pages
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Product Information
WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, THE 2013 DUFF COOPER PRIZE, THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2014 AND THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet, dramatist and occasional politician with an innate flair for the melodramatic, declared himself the Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. He intended to establish the utopian modern state upon his muddled fascist and artistic ideals and create a social paradigm for the rest of the world. It was a fittingly dramatic pinnacle to a career that had been essentially theatrical. In her new book Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the enthralling but controversial life of D'Annunzio - acclaimed poet and author, legendary seducer and charmer - who lived an extravagant and debt-ridden life, and became a military and national hero. He evolved from an idealistic poet, who allied himself with the Romantic aesthetic, to an instigator of radical right-wing revolt against democratic authority. D'Annunzio's colourful story is also a political parable: through his apparently contradictory nature and the eventual failure of the Fiume endeavour, a picture is created of the politically turbulent Europe of the early 20th century and of the poison of emergent fascism. As in the successful Heroes, Hughes-Hallett takes the story of a memorable character's life to explore the society and politics of the times in which he lived. She raises questions concerning the figure of the 'superman', the cult of nationalism and the origins of political extremism and war. At the centre however stands the flamboyant and charismatic D'Annunzio: a figure as deplorable as he is fascinating.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007213962
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170076938
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Pike: Gabriele D'annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
704 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
490g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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