Books by Robin Maxwell
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review 1: I interrupted my Lee Childs book for this and as far as the story goes it is a rollicking good story. My complaint is that it rewrites the Tarzan story under the premise that Jane tells the story her way to ERB and gives him license to change it as he thinks best. I just had a...
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review 1: While this is not a book for those looking for historical accuracy, it is a wonderfully written fictional story about a woman heretofore unknown to the world, da Vinci's mother. The first quarter of the book goes by a little slowly; but once she gets to Florence and meets Lore...
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review 1: O, Juliet is, of course, based on that story. But not, as author Robin Maxwell explains in the afterword, exactly the story that you may have read from that dead guy Will Shakespeare, as she was also inspired by several versions of the story that came before the play. Some creati...
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review 1: Signora Da Vinci is a most interesting tale of Leonardo da Vinci's mother, Caterina. The novel begins in her teenage years where Caterina is the daughter of the town's apothecary (also an alchemist) who has raised his daughter alone because his wife passed away years previously. ...
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review 1: As much as I wanted to, I couldn't really feel for Maxwell's Romeo and Juliet. I still much prefer Shakespeare's version even though it's more unlikely and crazy. The verses she added were at times beautiful (from Dante) and awkward (I assume her own). Her development of the s...