Since it's initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone's Lust For Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The most famous of all of Stone's novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh - brilliant painter, passionate lover, an[...]
A biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling and architect of the dome of St Peter's; it is set in renaissance Italy, a time of poisoning princes, warring popes and the all-powerful de'Medici family and tells of Michelangelo's loves and art.[...]
A biography of Van Gogh. No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, madness and despair.[...]
The passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time - the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring Popes, the all-powerful de'Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola... His loves - the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de'Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldo[...]
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone's classic biographical novel--in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michel[...]
The Agony and the Ecstasy