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Cleopatra

Histories, Dreams and Distortions

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

464 Pages

On-Sale Date: 01/09/2026

ISBN: 9780008781323

Trim Size: 1.000in x 1.000in x 1.000in

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Political Book Awards Political Biography of the Year and the Costa Biography Award. Before that, she wrote Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions which was published in 1990 to wide acclaim, and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen, published in 2004, which garnered similar praise. Cleopatra won the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award. Lucy lives in London.

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