{"product_id":"cleopatra-histories-dreams-distortions-lucy-hughes-hallett-9780008781323","title":"Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that fits the prejudices, anxieties and yearnings of the age that produced it. To Chaucer she was the model of a good wife, while to Cecil B. DeMille she was ‘the wickedest woman in history’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this revised edition of Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s award-winning cultural history, the real Cleopatra – one of the most powerful women in the ancient world – is skilfully revealed alongside a legion of imaginary counterparts and the sexual, racial and political messages they carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***************\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e****************\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eLucy Hughes-Hallett (Author)\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Costa Biography Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award. Her other books are Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is also a respected critic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions ‏ \u003c\/strong\u003e: ‎ 5.08 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fourth Estate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520080691357,"sku":"9780008781323","price":75.95,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/CleopatraHistories_DreamsandDistortions_9780008781323_FC_mphbookks.jpg?v=1773717740","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/cleopatra-histories-dreams-distortions-lucy-hughes-hallett-9780008781323","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}