Catherine The Great: Love Sex and Power

Rounding, Virginia

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ISBN 10: 0091799929 ISBN 13: 9780091799922

Published by Hutchinson, UK., 2006

Used Condition: Very Good Hardcover

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Using many of Catherine's own words from her voluminous correspondence and other documents, as well as contemporary accounts by courtiers, ambassadors and foreign visitors . Virginia Rounding seeks to penetrate the character of this most powerful, fascinating and surprisingly sympathetic of eighteenth - century woman. The DJ has wear to its corners with the back top one having a small tear, there is creasing to the top of the jacket and spine and is also creased on the front flap. PLEASE NOTE: International economy shipping to world zones 1 and 2 is by sea and could take up to 90 days to arrive. Seller Inventory # 02852

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Title: Catherine The Great: Love Sex and Power

Publisher: Hutchinson, UK.

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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1927. This work is primarily a story wherein Anthony has woven the portrait of a real woman into the pattern of 18th Century politics. The reader is introduced to Catherine, the statesman, who unites Russia, destroys Poland and participates in the American Revolutionary War. The reader also sees Catherine, the jealous mistress of men, who at sixty has a lover of twenty-five. The book has particular interest in its bearing on Catherine's celebrated love life.

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Virginia Rounding is the author of Les Grandes Horizontales (2003), is fluent in French and Russian (vital for the source material of her new book). She lives in London (EC1).

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