Traces Remain Essays and Explorations
Traces Remain Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl is a collection of essays published by Penguin Books in 2012, comprising 318 pages in English. This edition presents a series of explorations into historical figures and events, weaving together narratives that highlight the connections between past and present. Nicholl delves into the lives of notable individuals such as Byron, Shakespeare, and Rimbaud, transforming historical glimpses into engaging vignettes that reveal the complexities of their legacies.
Readers will find a diverse array of topics within these twenty-five essays, ranging from a mysterious painting discovered in Hereford to the intriguing circumstances surrounding the death of an alchemist. Nicholl also investigates a new suspect in the Jack the Ripper case and recounts a gold hunt in El Dorado. Through these explorations, the book emphasizes the marvels of historical inquiry and the enduring traces left by significant events and figures, making it a thought-provoking addition to the fields of biography, literary criticism, and historical reference.
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History leaves traces of the people – Byron Shakespeare Rimbaud Leonardo – living through it in portraits documents and books. In Traces Remain Charles Nicholl the acclaimed author of The Reckoning The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignettes and curious intriguing puzzles.
From a mysterious painting found in a Hereford house to the death of an alchemist and from a new Jack the Ripper suspect to a gold hunt in El Dorado Nicholl’s twenty-five fascinating essays take in two murders three disappearances and a missing Shakespeare play to show the marvel and tenacity of these wonderful historical traces.
‘Our finest literary and historical detective … Deliciously readable’ Financial Times
‘Charles Nicholl confirms his role as literature’s historic Holmes … thoroughly captivating’ Scotsman
‘Some writers are so good at what they do that they can take you anywhere. Charles Nicholl is one of them’ Irish Times
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