The Unknown Matisse

by Hilary Spurling

This book is wonderful. It interests me as a professional historian because it really puts its finger on the cross-currents of culture in this period

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The Unknown Matisse

by Hilary Spurling

Other books by Hilary Spurling

Elinor Fettiplace’s Receipt book by Hilary Spurling

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Elinor Fettiplace’s Receipt book
by Hilary Spurling

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Dracula
by Bram Stoker