{"product_id":"9780141979434","title":"The Europeans : Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Figes, Orlando, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/04\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 576 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: European history, Social \u0026amp; cultural history\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141979434\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThe Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and genuinely pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to exchange ideas and make a living, shuttling back and forth across the whole continent from the British Isles to Imperial Russia, as they exploited a new cosmopolitan age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Europeans is Orlando Figes' masterpiece. Surprising, beautifully written, it describes huge changes through intimate details, little-known stories and through the lens of Turgenev and the Viardots' touching, strange love triangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvents which we now see as central to European high culture are made completely fresh, allowing the reader to revel in the sheer precariousness with which the great salons, premieres and bestsellers came into existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022660173977,"sku":"9780141979434","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780141979434_5e94a813-adb3-4111-bda7-572edef4d11f.jpg?v=1601403209","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780141979434","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}