The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, …

Aug 5, 2025 · Parallel Lives is the story of how these two star-crossed lovers met, instantly understand each other, and were prepared to risk heartbreak, and in her case, retribution, to …

May 1, 2025 · Larissa swept away all the years of anguish in one meal. Bestselling novelist and art historian Iain Pears’ fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet …

Sep 1, 2025 · Good candidates for the last century would be Francis Haskell, a noted British art historian, and Larissa Salmina, the Soviet curator he met in Venice, in 1962. Iain Pears …

An extraordinary love story of two unlikely figures played out against the backdrop of the Cold War., Parallel Lives, A Love Story from a Lost Continent, Iain Pears, 9781324073772

Dec 5, 2014 · Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. …

Jun 10, 2015 · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate …

Aug 5, 2025 · Novelist and art historian Pears recounts the unlikely love story of Larissa Salmina (1931-2024), a Russian art curator, and British art historian Francis Haskell (1928-2000), who …

May 13, 2025 · At its core, the book recounts how Larissa, a Soviet art historian from Leningrad, and Francis, an English art historian from Cambridge, met in Venice in 1962 and fell in love …

In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, …