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The Duchess

$ 441 元 原價 558

全英格蘭人都愛她,只除了她自己的丈夫……

電影《浮華一世情》原著作品,原著書名《Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire》
德文郡公爵夫人喬吉安娜的傳奇一生
撼動歐洲皇室的淒美真人實事
同名電影台灣上映
綺拉奈特莉、雷夫范恩斯 擔綱主演

為何黛安娜王妃的命運竟與自己的高曾祖母如此雷同?
不同的時代,相同的命運,讓她們如此相繫……
她熱情如火、熱衷政治、嗜賭如命、享受生命。這是一本關於一位令人讚嘆女性的驚世作品。--賽門‧夏馬
紐約時報年度選書/惠特獎年度最佳傳記

當她出現時,她是所有目光的焦點;
而當她不在時,她便是所有人的話題焦點……
她是──德文郡公爵夫人!一個試圖扭轉命運的女人,最終讓自己的生命更加精彩!

德文郡公爵夫人喬吉安娜.史賓瑟,戴安娜王妃的高曾祖母,史賓瑟家族中最璀璨的一顆明星。

  她很年輕時便嫁給了當時英國最富裕、最有權勢的男人,第五世德文郡公爵,挾著雄厚的財力,出眾的品味,讓她轉眼成為時尚界的皇后,社交界的女王,一手創設當時最大,最受矚目的政治沙龍,只是她的婚姻並不快樂……

  喬吉安娜的丈夫長年與她最要好的朋友交往,甚至讓她住進自己家中,本該是兩個人的婚姻,從此成了三人行,喬吉安娜只得將自己的精力、智慧,討人喜愛的個性向外發展。她寫作、投入政治、賭博,甚至吸毒、緋聞纏身,婚外產女,過世時負債高達二萬英磅,但她?對是當時最閃亮的一顆星星!

  傳記文學中最好的代表…將個人一生與其時代背景結合的天衣無縫。作者捕捉到的不僅是個人傳奇,而是整個時代。-- 《紐約時報》書評

★本書中譯本《浮華一世情:德文郡公爵夫人喬吉安娜的傳奇一生》由「如果出版社」出版

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

  Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana’s public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug-taking, and rampant love affairs with the leading politicians of the day. With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.

Praise for The Duchess:

  ”Georgiana bursts from the pages of Amanda Foreman’s dazzling biography like the force of nature she undoubtedly was-passionate, political, addicted to gambling, and drunk on life. This is a stunning book about an astonishing woman.” -Simon Schama

  ”Biography at its best . . . seamlessly merges a life and its times, capturing not just an individual but an age.” -The New York Times Book Review

”Riveting . . . marvelously diverting.”
-The New Yorker

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