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The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall (Virago Modern Classics) by Maurier, Daphne du; King, Francis is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Many accounts of the life of Francis Bacon have been written for scholars. But du Maurier's aim in this biography was to illuminate the many facets of Bacon's remarkable personality for the common reader. To her book she brought the same gifts of imagination and perception that made her earlier biography, <i>Golden Lads</i>, so immensely readable, skillfully threading into her narrative extracts from contemporary documents and from Bacon's own writings, and setting her account of his life within
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maurier, Daphne du; King, Francis
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780316323697
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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