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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His publications include Patriots and Liberators, The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Dead Certainties, Landscape and Memory, and Rembrandt?s Eyes.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 14, 1990
Price: $11.00
The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were not in itself sufficient for a dozen novels, Dickens added to it a... Read more >
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 14, 1990
Price: $11.00
The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were not in itself sufficient for a dozen novels, Dickens added to it a... Read more >
A Tale of Two Cities
Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Simon Schama
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $5.99
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Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Simon Schama
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $5.99
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Citizens
A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 17, 1990
Price: $32.00
"As no other historian of the revolution, Schama brings to life the excitement--and harrowing terror--of an epochal human event."--Newsweek
"The very great virtues of this book [lie] in the coruscating brilliance of Schama's style, his dazzling display of erudition and intelligence...His chronicle is, after all, a stunning virtuoso performance." --The New Republic... Read more >
A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 17, 1990
Price: $32.00
"As no other historian of the revolution, Schama brings to life the excitement--and harrowing terror--of an epochal human event."--Newsweek
"The very great virtues of this book [lie] in the coruscating brilliance of Schama's style, his dazzling display of erudition and intelligence...His chronicle is, after all, a stunning virtuoso performance." --The New Republic... Read more >
Dead Certainties
Unwarranted Speculations
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $20.00
Schama uses two true "tales" --each involving a violent death, each linked to a great, tragic Boston Brahmin dynasty--that together use fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, to ponder how history is made. The first is that of General James Wolfe, killed at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second... Read more >
Unwarranted Speculations
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 1992
Price: $20.00
Schama uses two true "tales" --each involving a violent death, each linked to a great, tragic Boston Brahmin dynasty--that together use fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, to ponder how history is made. The first is that of General James Wolfe, killed at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second... Read more >
The Embarrassment of Riches
An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 8, 1997
Price: $25.00
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's... Read more >
An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 8, 1997
Price: $25.00
Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's... Read more >
Landscape And Memory
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1996
Price: $29.00
One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year
In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain... Read more >
Written by Simon Schama
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1996
Price: $29.00
One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year
In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain... Read more >
