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A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.(Review)
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December 1, 1998|
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By Mary S Lovell
There can be few Victorian personalities as complex as Sir Richard Burton, the explorer, linguist, scholar and author, and few lives as colourful. This is one reason that he has become a favourite subject for biographers, but none previously have paid more than passing attention to his marriage to Isabel. On the face of it, they seemed an ill suited couple - he the raffish, vain, bigoted, hard drinking, buccaneering scoundrel, whose single minded determination to make a name for himself won him as many enemies as admirers - she the quiet, shy, ...
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Napoleon III: the other Napoleon and his Empire.(Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte)
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