![]() ![]() Relevant, trenchant and searching." (William Boyd, The Guardian) ![]() "There are a multitude of fascinating pieces of information to be gleaned from Orlando Figes's magisterial and wide-ranging book The Europeans. I learned so much and was carried away by the intelligence and fluidity of the style - a combination which is unbeatable." (Antonia Fraser) "Magnificent and utterly gripping: European identity, culture and commerce through the lives of three remarkable individuals, the book for our times." (Philippe Sands) ![]() A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more." (Peter Frankopan) Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. Orlando Figes's latest book is The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture.Ī panoramic history of nineteenth-century European culture told through the entangled lives of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, the singer and composer Pauline Viardot and her husband Louis Viardot, a great connoisseur,The Europeans has been published to critical acclaim in the UK and US: Orlando Figes is an award-winning author of nine books on Russian and European history which have been translated into over 30 languages. ![]()
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