Product Description: Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalties of their central figures: hers grand, imperial, and stiff; his no less grand, but more relaxed and enjoyable. To the despair of his parents, he rebelled as a young man, conducting many affairs and living a life of pleasure...read more

“An astonishing work.”—Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of “Downton Abbey”“A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom.”—Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the MadmanIt has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport-Hines gives us a magnificent history of the people intimately connected with the infamous ship—from deal-makers and industry giants, like J.P. Morgan, who built and operated it; to Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor IV, and other glittering aristocrats who occupied its first class cabins; to the men and women traveling below decks hoping to find a better life in America. Commemorating the centennial anniversary of the great disaster, Voyagers of the Titanic offers a fascinating, uniquely original view of one of the most momentous catastrophes of the 20th century.

Product Description: Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history. The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world's largest and most luxurious liners...read more

Product Description: Beautiful heiress, accomplished flirt, aristocratic hostess, tragic mother, and Edwardian icon, Ettie Desborough is a fascinating but forgotten figure. She has been celebrated in countless memoirs but this is the first biography of her, based on private family archives and letters...read more

Product Description: Beautiful heiress, accomplished flirt, aristocratic hostess, tragic mother, and Edwardian icon, Ettie Desborough is a fascinating but forgotten figure. She has been celebrated in countless memoirs but this is the first biography of her, based on private family archives and letters...read more

Revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian.

An in-depth study of the final days of the seminal author begins with the ailing Marcel Proust's appearance at a May 1922 dinner at the Majestic Hotel in Paris, hosted by English arts lovers Violet and Sydney Schiff and attended by Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Picasso, and James Joyce, and describes the remarkable impact of his seminal work, Sodom and Gomorrah.

Product Description: Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A definitive portrait of poet W. H. Auden describes his English youth, 1939 emigration to New York, singleminded pursuit of his literary endeavors, voracious quest for experience, sexual attitudes, and central role in the artistic, literary, and intellectual world of his era. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.

A collection of poems, quotations, and longer selections from various times and places dealing with popular vices, including sexual behavior, drinking and smoking, gambling, reading, shopping, snobbery, and other amusements

Product Description: This is a story of an exceptional dynasty. For five generations the Macmillans have towered over British politics and literature like no other family. Originating in a world of Scottish crofters, two brothers fought their way from relentless poverty to found one of the greatest publishing houses in Victorian London...read more