Daisy Dunn
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
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Daisy Dunn's new book is a fascinating, compelling, and excellent biography of two Roman greats, Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger. It brings their lives to vivid life and charts their lasting legacy on the world.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 20 August 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life
Tom Holland, Literary Review
Starts with an erupting volcano - and then gets more exciting ... Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful and wide-ranging
Sarah Bakewell
In a dazzling, lively new literary biography, Daisy Dunn weaves together the lives of two Roman greats: Pliny the Elder, author of Natural History, and his nephew Pliny the Younger, who inherited his uncles notebooks and intellectual legacy.
Breathing vivid life back into the Plinys, Daisy Dunn charts the extraordinary lives of two outstanding minds and their lasting legacy on the world.
A fascinating, compelling and excellent biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Immensely entertaining and readable ... Thoroughly recommended
Sunday Times
Weight: 322g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008211127
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