A VERY DANGEROUS WOMAN: THE LIVES, LOVES AND LIES OF RUSSIA’S MOST SEDUCTIVE SPY
Book ID/图书代码： 00530016B89460
English Summary/英文概要： Baroness Moura Budberg, born in the Ukraine in 1892 was a charismatic schemer who commanded centre stage during her long eventful life. Adventuress, lover to famous men including H G Wells, Maxim Gorky and Robert Bruce Lockhart, British Agent in Russia during the Revolution, she was an inveterate gossip who rarely told the truth and reinvented herself with almost every sentence. Additionally she was under surveillance by MI5 as a possible spy for over thirty years yet they never managed to find her guilty. It seems though with the available evidence that unlike her friend Guy Burgess with whom she socialised, she was too good to be caught. Indeed with the death of Stalin and the exposure of some of his atrocities, she was asked and somewhat disillusioned with the USSR, accepted the invitation to spy for Britain. She was unable to escape the need for the adrenaline rush she apparently obtained from her daring exploits. This book explores the life of this intriguing woman using material not previously available.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Moura Budberg女爵1892年出生在乌克兰，她是一个非常有个人魅力的阴谋家，在她漫长的一生中充满了各种各样的冒险。她曾是很多大人物的情妇，包括H G Wells，高尔基以及英国驻俄罗斯特工Robert Bruce Lockhart等等。她喋喋不休的一生中几乎从没讲过真话，每一句都给自己编排出新的形象。此外，她被M15当做可能的间谍调查了超过三十年，但从未被抓住任何把柄。从已有的证据来看，和她一直交往的朋友Guy Burgess不同，她的伪装太好了，以至于没人抓得住她。在斯大林死后，他的一些残暴行为得以暴露，她被要求为苏维埃探刺英国的秘密，她显然无法抗拒如此刺激的邀请。本书就讲述了这个传奇女性的一生，她如何充分利用了一些以前从未有人想到过的武器。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：这是一段有关欧洲阴谋的节奏很快的故事。（Publishers Weekly）
非常吸引人。（Kirkus）
勇敢的多面手，本书是为一位欺诈高手竖起的纪念塔。（Russia Beyond the Headlines）
"a fast-paced story of European intrigue."
Publishers Weekly
"Intriguing."
Kirkus
"Brave and multi-faceted, a mosaic monument to a mistress of deceit."
Russia Beyond the Headlines
"In this richly romantic biography they also create an artistic, novelistic effect in the telling of her story as, perhaps, she might have liked it to be written. It would certainly have amused her as much as it will entertain the reader."
The Herald
About the Author/作者介绍： Deborah McDonald出生在伦敦南部，但并没有在伦敦待过太久。她的父母很快带着年幼的她定居在澳大利亚。她的父亲是记者，她一定从父亲那里继承了写作的爱好，所以很早就养成了随手带笔、热爱学习的习惯。
但为了生计，她在社会福利住房部分工作，虽然工资不高，但也有其他的回报。她得以前往公开大学上课，尽管多次搬家到了雷丁、贝肯斯菲尔德以及艾克赛特、尽管结了婚还有了两个孩子，她仍在继续学习。
一旦学位到后，她就开始通过其他的方式满足自己写作和研究的需求。这样做的成果就是她发表了第一本传记，《Clara Collet: An Educated Working Woman》，以及第二本《The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper》。
Jeremy Dronfield是一个多才多艺的作家，已发表了四部小说。
他的写作之旅是很曲折的。他的第一个正经职业是考古学者，但在发掘现场工作了好几年之后，他在剑桥大学以爱尔兰的史前艺术和宗教取得了博士学位。他的论文发表在一系列重要的国际学术刊物上。
Deborah McDonald was born in South London but did not stay there for long as her parents dragged her, at a young age, to live in Australia. Her father was a journalist and the writing bug must have been passed down to his daughter as she always had a pen in her hand and a yearning to learn.
However, in order to earn a crust, she went to work in Social Housing, which she quickly realised provided only a very small crust but was nonetheless rewarding. At the same time she began to study with the Open University. This was carried on despite moves to Reading, Beaconsfield and Exeter during which time she also gained a husband and two children.
Once the degree was finished, she began to look for other ways to fill her writing and research needs. This resulted in her first biography entitled ‘Clara Collet: An Educated Working Woman’. This was followed by ‘The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper’, essentially a biography of JK Stephen and his relationship with Prince Eddy.
Jeremy Dronfield is a versatile, multi-faceted writer with four novels to his name.
He came to writing via a circuitous route. His first serious stopover in life was as an archaeologist. After a few years in rescue excavation, he did his doctoral research at Cambridge University, on the subject of art and religion in prehistoric Ireland. His thesis was published as a series of papers in international journals including Antiquity and Current Anthropology.
Format:电子手稿
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