The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
The Pike won the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the 2013 Costa Book Awards Biography of the Year. The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil – and Fascist.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9780007356515
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Gabriele D'AnnunzioItalian FascismLiterature and politics
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWonMajor(2013)
Other awarded books from Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
- Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War
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