{"product_id":"the-great-dictator","title":"The Great Dictator","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.csD23A9CB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;} .cs5CC07D4{margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .cs2B8514B{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:italic;Arial;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003ePenniless virgins. Reckless dukes. Flappers. Airmen. Suffragettes. Barbara Cartland made them fall in love. She wrote 723 books without touching a typewriter: instead, she reclined on her sofa with a Pekinese on her lap - and romantic fiction billowed out of her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003eThis dazzling biography reveals the woman behind the powder and mascara - a clever, socially precarious writer navigating a twentieth-century world of war-damaged men, class conflict and sexual peril.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003eAfter 49 proposals, she chose the wrong one. What followed was a life stranger than any of her novels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003eFrom country house weekends to Fleet Street offices, from Mayfair bedrooms to the divorce court, Matthew Sweet traces Cartland's extraordinary journey through a century of upheaval. Here are terrorist plots, psychic seances, suppressed scandals, plagiarism battles in the cutthroat world of romance publishing - and a surprising turn as a campaigner for Romany rights.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003eDrawing on unprecedented access to Cartland's vast archives and firsthand accounts from those who knew her, Sweet delivers a wonderfully entertaining study of class, fame, scandal and self-aggrandisement. Part satire, part biography, part social history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs2B8514B\"\u003eThe Great Dictator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csD23A9CB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereveals how a literary legend was made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dear Village","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67713356431636,"sku":"9781399715805","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6460\/0596\/files\/9781399715805_1.jpg?v=1792187252","url":"https:\/\/dearvillage.com.au\/products\/the-great-dictator","provider":"Dear Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}