The Birth of Venus
By Sarah Dunant
By Sarah Dunant
By Sarah Dunant
By Sarah Dunant
By Sarah Dunant
Read by Jenny Sterlin
By Sarah Dunant
Read by Jenny Sterlin
By Sarah Dunant
Read by Kathe Mazur
By Sarah Dunant
Read by Kathe Mazur
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Audiobooks
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Audiobooks
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$17.00
Nov 30, 2004 | ISBN 9780812968972
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Nov 30, 2004 | ISBN 9781588364425
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Feb 17, 2004 | ISBN 9780739310540
372 Minutes
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Nov 12, 2003 | ISBN 9781415902332
801 Minutes
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Praise
“Simply amazing, so brilliantly written…almost intolerably exciting at times, and at others, equally poignant.”
–Antonia Fraser
“A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous…full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts. Dunant’s snaky tale of art, sex and Florentine hysteria consumes utterly–but the experience is all pleasure.”
–Simon Schama
“Sarah Dunant has given us a story of sacrifice and betrayal, set during Florence’s captivity under the fanatic Savonarola. She writes like a painter, and thinks like a philosopher: juxtapositioning the humane against the animal, hope against fanaticism, creativity against destruction. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force.”
–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
“Dunant has created a vivid and compellingly believable picture of Renaissance Florence: the squalor and brutality; the confidence and vitality; the political machinations. Her research has obviously been meticulous….A magnificent novel.”
–The Telegraph (London)
“It’s to Dunant’s credit that the vast quantities of historical information in this book are deployed so naturally and lightly….On the simplest level, this is an erotic and gripping thriller, but its intellectual excitement also comes from the way Dunant makes the art and philosophy of the period look new and dangerous again….Theology has rarely looked so sexy.”
–The Independent (London)
“No one should visit Tuscany this summer without this book. It is richly textured and driven by a thrillerish fever.”
–The Times (London)
“[Dunant’s] control, pace, and instinct are well-nigh impeccable.”
–The Financial Times
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