Anka Muhlstein





Anka Muhlstein

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Anka Muhlstein was born in Paris in 1935. She has published biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, Cavelier de La Salle, and Astolphe de Custine, a study on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria, and a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart. She is currently writing a volume on Proust as a reader. She has won two prizes from the Académie Française, and the Goncourt Prize for Biography. She and her husband, Louis Begley, have written a book on Venice, Venice for Lovers. They live in New York.


Average rating: 3.51 · 85 ratings · 29 reviews · 18 distinct works
Balzac's Omelette: A Delici...
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Baron James: The Rise of th...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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A Taste for Freedom: The Li...
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Der Brand Von Moskau
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Königinnen Auf Zeit: Katha...
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003
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La Salle: Explorer of the N...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1994 — 2 editions
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Reines Ephemeres, Meres Per...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001
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Napoleone a Mosca
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Proust's Library
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