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21. Elilzabeth Taylor an Informal
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22. Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory,
23. Elizabeth Taylor: The Most Beautiful
24. Elizabeth Taylor;: An informal
 
25. Elizabeth Taylor, An Informal
 
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26. In a summer season (A Virago modern
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27. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected
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28. The Other Elizabeth Taylor
 
29. Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal
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30. At Mrs Lippincote's (Virago Modern
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31. The films of Elizabeth Taylor
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32. The Most Beautiful Woman in the
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33. Elizabeth Taylor: A Biography
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34. Dangerous Calm: Selected Short
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35. Elizabeth Taylor
 
36. Who's afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?
 
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37. The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago
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38. Master of Secret Desires (Ellora's
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39. Elizabeth Taylor American Film
 
40. A Dedicated Man and Other Stories

21. Elilzabeth Taylor an Informal Memoir By Elizabeth Taylor
 Hardcover: 177 Pages (1965)

Asin: B000N6KU60
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22. Spiritual Care: Nursing Theory, Research, and Practice
by Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
Paperback: 296 Pages (2001-07-22)
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Asin: 0130281646
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Loma Linda Univ., CA. Text addresses the depth of this subject matter and is written in an universal standpoint. Details the 'how-to's' of spiritual caregiving including spiritual assessment, planning care, documentation, ethical concerns, and numerous approaches to nurturing the spirit. Exercises and key points are included. Softcover. DNLM: Nursing Care--psychology. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars book review
This is an excellent resource for ANY healthcare provider or professional wanting to learn about Spiritual Care.I am using it in my Master's thesis.

I highly recommend it. ... Read more


23. Elizabeth Taylor: The Most Beautiful Woman In the World - A Photographic Biography
by Christopher Belport and Joe Maddelena
Hardcover: 160 Pages (2010-09-06)
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Introducing this collection of film studio publicity photographs featuring Elizabeth Taylor taken from the 1940s through the late 1950s by some of Hollywood's top photographers, including Bud Fraker, Robert Coburn, and Eric Carpenter. Explore the history of this era of great film photography together with Elizabeth's Taylor's films of the period through film portrait stills. ... Read more


24. Elizabeth Taylor;: An informal memoir,
by Elizabeth Taylor
Hardcover: 177 Pages (1965)

Asin: B0007DEQOQ
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5-0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Taylor - An informal memoir
This is a wonderful retroperspective look on one of the most famous women of our time. Elizabeth Taylor is one of the last of the old Hollywood stars. In this book she talks candidly about her love for Richard Burton, Mike Todd, her four children and also about her career. She goes into details about how she transformed herself into Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". The book is written when Elizabeth was in her 30s and she comes across as a very perceptual woman who is well aware of that the public image of her is a commodity and she separates that part of herself from her private self, who she at this time describes as a broad named "Betty Burton". The person who emerges from all this is more down to earth, intelligent and nicer than her image at that time had her out to be. The book is illustrated with some unusual black and white photographs that I had not seen anywhere else.
I loved reading this book and could barely put it down. Elizabeth Taylor has lead a very fascinating life and experienced more before the age of 30 than others has in a lifetime. I can recommend this book to anyone who is interested in movie stars and especially for other fans of Elizabeth Taylor. :) ... Read more


25. Elizabeth Taylor, An Informal Memior
by Elizabeth Taylor
 Hardcover: Pages (1965)

Asin: B000IEBQ4M
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26. In a summer season (A Virago modern classic)
by Elizabeth Taylor
 Paperback: 250 Pages (1983)
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Asin: 0385279175
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Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless Dermot.Their special love arms them against the disapproval of conservative friends and neighbours - until the return of Kate's old friend Charles, intelligent, kind, now widowed with a beautiful daughter. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
I am reading all of Elizabeth Taylor's books, one by one. They are all beautifully written, fiercely intelligent, and both hilarious and heartbreaking at once. Had it not been for an article in the Atlantic Monthly, I would have lived my whole life never having discovered this author, who has become one of my absolute favourites. When you discover a writer that you love, you cannot imagine never having read their words.
I almost feel as if I know her.

Elizabeth Taylor is often compared to other female British writers but somehow the comparisons are not accurate to me. She was different; more intelligent, stronger, and had a wit that showed a subtle brilliance.
Her writing is not typically female, and has a sharp masculine undercurrent about it eventhough her stories are almost exclusively concerned with female domestic life. It's a fascinating contrast.
She once said that she preferred books where "almost nothing happens." Yet her stories are so rich - in dialogue, in analysis of human behaviour. It is "inaction" at its very finest.

Furthermore, she was able to do what few female authors manage: to write male characters authentically - their mannerisms, their voice, their perceptions, in a way that is totally believable. What a rare and wonderful writer she was. If you haven't yet discovered Elizabeth Taylor, how I envy you. You have so much enjoyment to look forward to.

5-0 out of 5 stars Compelling and illuminating
I first heard of Elizabeth Taylor in an Atlantic Monthly review.I am a Barbara Pym fan(atic) and it seemed Taylor would be to my liking.I received In a Summer Season on Thursday and devoured it by Saturday morning.The story was compelling, the characters beautifully drawn and largely sympathetic.Some of Taylor's emotional or psychological insights caused me to catch my breath.I am widely read and slightly cynical, but I found this novel to be that paragon of literature--entertaining, informative, and thought provoking.I highly recommend this author and am only sorry it took me so long to hear of her.

4-0 out of 5 stars The young and the restless
Elizabeth Taylor was unquestionably one of the most intelligent and hard-to-describe British novelists of the mid 20th century. Each of hers novel is very unlike every other novel in terms of its plot, although you'd never mistake her witty way at getting at the springs and balances of genteel middle-class behavior for anyone else's. And yet her work shows strong affinities with her great friend Ivy Compton-Burnett's, as well as with Elizabeth Bowen's and even (at times) with Iris Murdoch's.

IN A SUMMER SEASON, one of Taylor's finest novels, is a striking blend of both comedy and tragedy, centering largely upon the ways in which the young and unsettled cling to that which is older because it seems safe, even when it is not the best thing for them (or for their elders). The middle-aged wealthy widowed Kate has married Dermot, over a decade her junior, mostly for his sexual allure, but he stays clinging to her because she makes it possible for him not to work or grow up; significantly, his own mother wants him to work in a shop selling Victorian antiques. Meanwhile Kate is watched in her marriage by her live-in aunt Ethel, a former suffragist; her son by her first marriage, Tom, who works for his condescending and nagging grandfather in hopes of rising in the family business; and Tom's sister Lou, who nurses a crush upon a middle-aged pastor with High Church tendencies that distress the other townsfolk. Even though the novel's women sport the latest and highest bouffant hairdos of the novel's era (it was published in 1961), the family's telescope in their Thames Valley home gives away their fixation on the ways and comforts of the past, in that it more often than not focused on Windsor Castle several miles away. The novel has some of Taylor's best comic moments in it (there is a very wittily composed section midway through the novel concerning a contentious dinner party featuring a roast turkey that has gone off), and also shows her usual gift for delaying violence until it becomes almost inevitable at the novel's conclusion. This is a novel that should be much better known in the United States, and shows Taylor at her most skilled and intelligent. ... Read more


27. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems
by Stone, Beverly, Taylor, Elizabeth Barrett
Paperback: 392 Pages (2009-07-30)
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One of the leading poets of the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Barrett Browning had a profound influence on her contemporaries and on writers that followed her. This edition provides a rich and varied selection of Barrett Browning's poetry, including relatively neglected material from her early career and works never before included in editions of her poetry. The edition is comprehensively annotated and includes a critical introduction; detailed headnotes for each poem also provide the reader with a deep understanding of the historical, biographical, and literary contexts in which the poems were written.

The extensive appendices include reviews and criticism and material on factory reform and slavery, as well as religion and the Italian Question. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars One great and memorable poem justifies a life - work
Reading through this volume I find it difficult to become deeply engaged. Something in the archaic, quaint language of much of the poetry deters.
Yet there is a poem, the poem of all the anthologies that is a great and memorable one, one that justifies a life- work.
" How do I love thee , Let me count the ways" is one of the most beautiful and inspiring love- poems ever written.

5-0 out of 5 stars Some of the best love poetry ever written
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, especially the "Sonnets from the Portuguese," is beautiful, intelligent, and honest love poetry. Anyone who has experienced the doubts, fears, and transformation of love will recognize the truth of the poet's struggle to trust and to love. ... Read more


28. The Other Elizabeth Taylor
by Nicola Beauman
Paperback: 464 Pages (2009-09-03)
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This is the first biography of one of the greatest English writers of the last century. Betty Coles became Elizabeth Taylor upon her marriage in 1936. Her first novel At Mrs. Lippincote's appeared in the same year (1945) as the actress Elizabeth Taylor was appearing in National Velvet. Over the next thirty years, "the other Elizabeth Taylor" lived and worked in Buckinghamshire and published several titles of fiction. Nicola Beauman's biography draws on a wealth of hitherto undiscovered material.

Nicola Beauman is the author of A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914–39, Cynthia Asquith, and Morgan: a Life of EM Forster. She founded Persephone Books in 1999.

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5-0 out of 5 stars The Other Elizabeth Taylor--delightful literary biography!
What a delightful literary biography!I have only read E. Taylor's At Mrs. Lippincote's but will certainly look for more of her novels after reading this well-researched biography.I knew next to nothing about Taylor as a person, but Nicola Beauman has altered the situation for me and for many who may know this author's novels but not the woman herself.Of particular interest: the recounting of Taylor's early years, her relationships with Elizabeth Bowen and other writers of her time, and the biographer's access to so many of Taylor's letters which she quotes extensively.The revelations about Taylor that are so displeasing to her children may prove in time to be notable in light of her achievement as a novelist. Beauman's biography will serve to increase appreciation of Taylor, a complex and fascinating woman and a fine novelist.It also provides a good hard look at the British literary world of the 1950s and '60s of which Taylor was a part yet not a part.

5-0 out of 5 stars The Librarian
Having discoveredthe books of Elizabeth Taylor several years ago, I have wanted to know who is this wonderful writer of fiction. Until Nicola Beauman's enlightening biography was published, it was hard to find the answer to this question. An article in 'The Atlantic' some time ago gave glimmers but it wasn't enough.Then came along this
biography.I am glad that Mrs. Beauman made sure that the book was published with a spine that allow the book to stay open.I just could't put the book down.She shows us an Elizabeth Taylor as a woman ahead of her time, who has to make compromises in order to write the books she wanted to write.Mrs. Beauman gives usinsights into the characters of the works of fiction using the life experiences of the author. I will be rereading several of the novels, with fresh eyes, thanks to this important biography



3-0 out of 5 stars A wonderful writer is ill-served by her biographer
Naturally admirers of Elizabeth Taylor will want to read the *only* biography of her, and will not be dissuaded even if its author is a little dim-witted.I must say, though, that I began the work with great interest and became increasingly frustrated.Its limited viewpoint is evident even in the title."The Other Elizabeth Taylor," really?"Anne Brontë:The Other One" is also an insulting title but at least Brontë was being compared to her own sisters (and fellow novelists).

Elizabeth Taylor never wanted to be the subject of a biography and as you wade through this work you get a lot of Nicola Beauman but not a lot of Elizabeth Taylor.Beauman's big idea seems to be that if Taylor had only let Blanche Knopf revise her manuscripts and if she had only gone to more literary luncheons, she would now be required reading in universities, just like Virginia Woolf.Beauman also doesn't care much for the novels Taylor wrote after 1953 (not that she has much to say about any of her novels, apart from plot summary).

On the plus side, you do get some amusing glimpses from Taylor's letters--only a few though, because most of Taylor's correspondents burned her letters at her request.To me, the high point of the book was the revelation that Taylor and Robert Liddell had a running joke "that Olivia Manning might be the person asked to edit their correspondence for publication.They therefore did not date what they wrote, in order to muddle her, and--apparently--made frequent little jibes at her expense.""We also added little notes of great stupidity and insensitiveness that we imagined her as contributing," explained Liddell at a PEN talk in 1987, "and are trying hard to survive her."

Nicola Beauman reports in her acknowledgements that Taylor's son and daughter are "very angry and distressed" about the book and have asked to be disassociated from it (some acknowledgements!).She also includes (as a footnote on page 279, which speculates about the origins of the character of Dermot in _In A Summer Season_) a statement by Taylor's daughter:"most of what Nicola has written is untrue and the rest hurtful to many people."

Again and again like the regular tolling of a bell throughout the biography comes the complaint that Taylor did not receive enough recognition in her lifetime and that her novels are not much read these days.(It may have distressed the biographer more than her subject.)I went to bed rather downcast by the repetition of this idea, however in the morning I was more cheerful and thought, "they are wonderful novels and will always be enjoyed by people who like that kind of thing." ... Read more


29. Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal Memoir
by Elizabeth Taylor
 Paperback: Pages (1967)

Asin: B000H496CW
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30. At Mrs Lippincote's (Virago Modern Classics)
by Elizabeth Taylor
Paperback: 224 Pages (2006-04-01)
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Asin: 1844083098
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Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities of service life, Julia's honesty and sense of humour prevent her from taking her role as seriously as her husband, that leader of men, might wish; for Roddy, merely love cannot suffice - he needs homage as well as admiration. And Julia, while she may be a most unsatisfactory officer's wife, is certainly no hypocrite. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars The Other Elizabeth Taylor
I was reading the Atlantic Monthly which featured an article about Elizabeth Taylor; an author I had never heard of. I have since read Mrs. Lippincote and enjoyed it so much. The writing is intelligent, warm, and funny. It is deliciously English, and considering it was written in the 1940's, surprisingly modern. I am going to read everything this woman wrote - what a pleasant surprise, and I am so grateful to the Atlantic Monthly for making people aware of this fantastic writer.

4-0 out of 5 stars The war at home
The grossly neglected English novelist Elizabeth Taylor once admitted in an autobiographical note that she enjoyed reading novels "where practically nothing ever happens." Such is the world of her own fiction, as beautifully demonstrated in this her first novel, published in 1945, which shows how much emotionally can happen in a world of practical inaction.

Billeted temporarily to the village and home of the eponymous Mrs. Lippincote to be near her husband, an officer in the RAF, Julia Davenant is expected to be a model officer's wife, serving meals to her husband's commanding officers, joining in the fun had by his fellows and their wives, and behaving so as not to attract attention or to embarrass him. Reminded of these obligations by the model of the domestic Lippincotes that surrounds her in her new home, she chooses instead to escape into an inner world of observation and intellectual reflection as she cares for her husband, her sickly son, and her husband's censorious "odd woman" cousin Eleanor who serves as both company and as foil for the nonconformist Julia. Little happens for a long time in this novel from a practical standpoint though much happens within Julia's and Eleanor's consciousnesses (through which most of this novel is focalized) to prepare us for the explosion at the end of the novel that changes their lives forever, a formal device taylor often replicated in her later novels.

This early work shows Taylor's debts to her friend Ivy Compton-Burnett more clearly than in her later work: as with Burnett, more is indicated through the undercurrents of dialgue than is explicitly said. so that we must interpret (as the characters themselves both do and do not) what is really happening belwo the surface of their comments. This is also one of the most explicitly feminist of Taylor's novels: Julia's and Eleanor's socially stifled situations seem to be that bemoaned by Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, which is often mentioned within the text as a kind of counterpoint to this novel. Like all of Taylor's books, AT MRS. LIPPINCOTE'S has a surface facility that belies its thematic and structural complexities; by the end the novel seems to have rushed by, yet when you stop to consider the significance of the young Miss Lippincote's unannounced visits to the house (and the effect they have on the family), or the contrasts among Julia's husband, his solicitous and Brontë-loving Wing Commander who nurtures a crush on Julia, and the raffish and sexually ambiguous Cockney living in their village she knows from London, the meanings of the novel multiply exponentially. ... Read more


31. The films of Elizabeth Taylor (Heroes of the movies)
by Susan d'Arcy
Paperback: 94 Pages (1982)
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1982 - The Films of Elizabeth Taylor - By Susan d'Arcy - First Edition - Beaufort Books - Wonderful Filmography of one of the most beautfil actresses to ever hit the screen - NEW - Unread - Paperback - Collectible ... Read more


32. The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor, The
by Ellis Amburn
Hardcover: 368 Pages (2000-05-01)
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?????An American icon for more than half a century, Elizabeth Taylor continues to fascinate the American public. From the mainstream media to the tabloid press, no other celebrity has received such overwhelming scrutiny, stirred so much scandal, or alternately been the target of both worldwide worship and condemnation. And yet just when we thought we knew everything about this screen siren, Ellis Amburn blows the lid off of Hollywood's best-kept secrets-secrets that have allowed Hollywood's most beautiful woman to remain its most misunderstood celebrity.

?????In The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Ellis Amburn taps into previously unexplored primary sources to reveal the tragedies and triumphs of Elizabeth Taylor's exciting and tumultuous life. This wonderful new biography poignantly recounts the successful removal of a golf-ball size brain tumor; her courageous recovery after breaking her back twice within two years; the exciting launch of her fragrance line, which became an instant success; and her loving relationship with Rod Steiger, who nurtured her back to health after a nervous breakdown. Amburn also reveals Taylor's tragic and heartbreaking affection for Montgomery Clift and James Dean and explores Taylor's disastrous marriage to the abusive and philandering Nicky Hilton, who abandoned Liz on their honeymoon to be with another woman. And then there is the infamous and cunning Eddie Fisher, who forced Liz to appear at his Las Vegas shows in order to bring in capacity crowds, as well as accounts of Richard Burton's homosexual activities and his exploitation of Taylor.

?????With explosive new revelations about her love affairs and marriages, Ellis Amburn creates a portrait that will redefine everything we thought we knew about Elizabeth Taylor. The most significant and overlooked truth in Taylor's life that all of her major loving relationships have been with gay men, while all of her self-destructive love affairs have been with straight men-is an insight that is destined to deepen our love and understanding of the world's most beautiful woman.

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3-0 out of 5 stars UH-OH
This bio is mostly interesting and included some things I didn't know before.However, I found a glaring mistake that makes me dubious about the rest of the book.The author says Earl Holliman played one of the sons in the movie Giant.This is not so.Earl Holliman played the eldest Benedict girl's husband.This irritates me no end and makes me wonder if the book is well-enough researched.

4-0 out of 5 stars How is really the World's most Beautiful Woman?
I found the book very enchanting and interesting. I was unable to put it down. I have always been a huge fan of Elizabeth Taylor, she was mesmerizingly beautiful in her prime of life. I would not quote that she is the World's most beautiful woman because that title also belongs to:

1. Model Beau-Latasha (being the most beautiful of all time)
2. Model Cindy Crawford
3. Actress Raquel Welch
4. Actress Aishwarya Rai
5. Actress Sophia Loren
6. Sportcaster Jayne Kennedy
7. Singer Lena Horne
8. Singer Vanity
9. Model Gia Carangi
10. Actress Angelina Jolie

1-0 out of 5 stars Salacious, outrageous and nauseating
One sentence came to mind as I closed Ellis Amburn's biography of Elizabeth Taylor: "Why didn't Liz sue?" Amburn puts new meaning into "bad taste" with his biography, which revels unashamedly in gory details, sex secrets and every diva moment that Taylor ever had. It's embarrassing just to read.

Taylor's childhood is treated with more or less indifference -- it's her teen years that begin to spark Amburn's interest. She studies the relationships she had with men from adolescence onward, particularly the asexual ones that she had with attractive heterosexual men, and the "a-loving" ones that she had with gay ones.

That tendency, Amburn argues, took her through several unhappy marriages and plenty of explosive relationships, including ones that shattered assorted marriages. In the midst of all this, she also weathered health crises and worldwide censure with plenty of guts, becoming a sort of grande dame of the filmmaking business.

Love her or hate her, Elizabeth Taylor is a larger-than-life figure, and there's plenty in her life to fuel a biography. Many biographers have managed to describe her lifetime with grace and taste, despite her sailor's mouth and tumultuous love life. She doesn't have to be portrayed as squeaky clean, just human.

Unfortunately, Amburn usually chooses to focus on the more grotesque aspects of Taylor's life. She delves into the sex lives (complete with sometimes disgusting details) of everyone who had been involved with Taylor, especially the gay men. Which, by the way, make up a lot of the book -- Amburn attaches the "gay" tag to quite a few men, the only way that she manages to pay any attention to them. That particular preoccupation hangs over the entire book like a stormcloud. Don't the heterosexual men in Taylor's life deserve equal scrutiny?

Taste is nowhere to be found here -- Amburn has an almost obsessive interest in Taylor's breasts, and the sexual and penile details of her husbands, lovers and pals. What these things add to the history, she doesn't bother to say. The sledgehammer writing is that of a tabloid reporter, but without the restraints of an editor, Amburn appears to have gone wild.

Taylor herself comes across as a blowsy diva, without a single redeeming characteristic except her acting skills. Amburn, don't bother writing a biography if you don't have any liking or respect for your subject. Not that she's alone; her husbands are all portrayed as walking disasters of alcoholism, gambling and physical abuse, and her kids are nonentities. The only person Amburn seems to have any liking for is Taylor's costar and friend Montgomery Clift, who is shown as a suffering saint.

Ellis Amburn's "Elizabeth Taylor" is practically a how-to guide on how NOT to write a biography. Don't even bother, except for a laugh.

2-0 out of 5 stars A Stormy Sexual History of Hollywood
This book is the tabloid version of an Elizabeth Taylor biography, reading like stiched-together daily exposes in such a newspaper.It displays in endless detail the sexual orientation of virtually everyone she ever spent time with, any arguments she ever had where someone else was present, and any unladylike things she may have said or done.Her movie work is discussed in terms of how it related to her marital relationships and financial problems.Occasionally, the book also criticizes her for having a healthy sexual appetite.

Normally, biographers either like the person they write about or want to create a more accurate account of the person.Mr. Amburn did not seem to fall into either of these categories.His objective seems to be to portray some of the other people in Ms. Taylor's life more sympathetically.

The book's main thesis is that Ms. Taylor has had loving relationships in her adult life with people who are gay or bisexual and unloving ones with everyone else.This connection is also made to Ms. Taylor's relationship with her father, despite the fact that she did not have a good relationship with him.But the book doesn't get beyond that into much of the motivation.Many men were attracted to Ms. Taylor like moths to the flame, and this attraction did nothing to bring out their better qualities.She seems to have lived in a world where her physical attractiveness made her a target for fans, men, and exploiters of all sorts.Little is made of the potential to see her as victim of peoples' perceptions of someone who is physically attractive.She also doesn't seem to get enough credit for generally being an open-minded person, which may explain her lack of sexual-orientation prejudice.

According to press reports and this book, Ms. Taylor has had more than her share of illness, injury, and physical and emotional pain.Yet she has led a generally productive artistic life, and has played an increasingly important role in bringing sympathy and support to the cause of overcoming AIDS.It would have been natural to have focused on these positive reflections of her underlying character, and the difficulties involved in overcoming ceaseless, searing pain addiction.No one is going to be perfect under such circumstances.Yet the book wallows in her use of drugs and drinking to soften the pain, in endless tales that add little to the biography.

Naturally, Ms. Taylor is famous in part for her marital difficulties.Those should have been in the book, but they became too much of the book to be rewarding to the reader.

As someone who was a working actress for most of her life, another aspect of the book you might expect would be extended dicussions of her work.You will find relatively little of that.It is as though the author thinks that her work is of virtually no importance.I certainly was moved by her performances in National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Giant, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?I liked her performances in many other movies.I would have liked to have read much more about her work in these roles where she was more successful.

The best part of this book is the beautiful color photograph of Ms. Taylor on the cover.

If you are wondering why I did not give the book a one star review, it is because the photographs are good and the writing style is perfectly adequate.The three star downgrade is for misfocus, exploitation, and a hidden agenda.

After you finish looking at Ms. Taylor's cover photograph, consider what you would like to know more about public figures.Then when you are thinking about reading a biography about that person, check to see if the biography focuses on the areas you care about before reading them.That will save you a lot of time.

Also, ask yourself how we should consider someone's life.To what extent should we consider good deeds? Bad deeds?Repentance?Motives?Physical appearance?Obstacles to progress?Ms. Taylor's life raises these issues rather nicely.

By the way, if you find a biography of Ms. Taylor that you like, please do write to me.I'd like to read it.

2-0 out of 5 stars There's nothing like a DAME
As another reviewer said, I have read most ot the biographies writtenabout Elizabeth Taylor, and I am usually disappointed! They seem to nevercapture the woman; the authors tend to rehash old news clippings, orscandal sheet gossip.In doing this, the authors never do this womanjustice. Not only is Elizabeth an icon of our time, but she has become oneof countries greatest AIDS activists.This in itself took tremendouscourage!There is more to this woman than celluloid, and ex-husbands. Faceit, she's one great dame! I wish to some day read a biography of her thattruly celebrates the woman that is Elizabeth Taylor! ... Read more


33. Elizabeth Taylor: A Biography
by James Christopher
Paperback: 189 Pages (2000-08)
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The story of Elizabeth Taylor's life.She was, besides Judy Garland, the only child star to have made the transitionto adult star, and like Garland, her life was subsequently troubled.But Liz managed to beat both alcohol addiction and cancer, to stand, in 2000, as one of the most famous women in the world. ... Read more


34. Dangerous Calm: Selected Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (Virago modern classics)
by Elizabeth Taylor
Paperback: 338 Pages (1997-10-02)
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In 1945 the publication of AT MRS LIPPINCOTE'S launched Elizabeth Taylor's career. The author of twelve novels and four collections of short stories, she excelled at unravelling the comedy of ordinary life. DANGEROUS CALM draws on her volumes of short stories to produce a fine selection of her work. Stories such as 'Summer Schools', 'Flesh' and 'The Devastating Boys' confirm her status as one of the finest short story writers. This selection also features two previously unpublished stories and three uncollected ones, including the late, poignant tale, 'The Wrong Order'. Together they celebrate a formidable stylist whose work has delighted readers and critics for fifty years. ... Read more


35. Elizabeth Taylor
by Donald Spoto
Paperback: 576 Pages (1996-01-04)
list price: US$16.50 -- used & new: US$5.42
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Asin: 0751515019
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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A biography of Elizabeth Taylor, based on studio diaries, letters and personal journals, and covering her life up to and including the collapse of her marriage to Larry Fortensky. The author has also written biographies of Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book. Spoto at his best.
I read all of Spoto's books about movie stars. He is a really interesting writer with lots of amazing details. You really get into the characters and know them well. I really enjoyed this book. ... Read more


36. Who's afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?
by Brenda Maddox
 Hardcover: 206 Pages (1978)

Isbn: 0515045837
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37. The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago Modern Classic)
by Elizabeth Taylor
 Paperback: 250 Pages (1983)
list price: US$7.95 -- used & new: US$79.00
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Asin: 0385279191
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38. Master of Secret Desires (Ellora's Cave)
by S. L. Carpenter, Elizabeth Jewell, Tawny Taylor
Paperback: 320 Pages (2007-06-05)
list price: US$19.99 -- used & new: US$0.01
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Asin: 1416536159
Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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In these three steamy stories, only one person can make their lover's fantasies become a scorching reality....

S. L. Carpenter

Broken

Lovely Kari Hawkins is just getting over her abusive ex-boyfriend when she meets Jesse Andersen one rainy night. Though he's totally gorgeous and a real gentleman, inside he's shattered by the woman he thought he loved. Yet when Kari and Jesse are drawn together by a powerful, uninhibited passion, everything seems to fall into place. Now they can put their wounded pasts behind them and explore the hungry desire that neither can -- nor wants -- to resist.

Elizabeth Jewell

6 Enchanted Princesses

Hired by the father of six beautiful identical sisters, P.I. Patrick Fitzcairn must find out where the girls escape to each night. Immediately drawn to the luscious eldest sister, Annabeth, Fitz soon learns that she and her sisters visit a Fairy world of lust and indulgence where sex is an expression of power -- and Annabeth is the prisoner of an evil seducer. But when an explosive night of passion draws them together, Annabeth learns the true meaning of desire with Fitz -- and can finally be free from the dark world that consumed her.

Tawny Taylor

Dragons and Dungeons

Outbid at an auction for a valuable ancient artifact, Kaya Cordova finds herself strangely charmed by the winning bidder. When she decides to talk to the handsome and flirtatious Jestin Draig about selling his prize, Kaya is overcome with aching desire. Following him to his palatial estate, she soon learns a dark secret about Jestin that shakes Kaya to her core. She must put aside her fears and accept him as her master if she wants him to satisfy all her desires.

Step inside Ellora's Cave, where passions run wild and the sexiest fantasies come true....www.EllorasCave.com

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Customer Reviews (3)

5-0 out of 5 stars Master Of Secret Desire
Bought it for the Immortal secrets by Tawny Taylor, but I read the whole book and liked it!

4-0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good
I bought this book because I love the Ellora's Cave line, and I wasn't disappointed. The first two stories were great, really hot, but the last one kind of threw me a bit. It was sexy, like the others, but I started bursting out laughing when the guy transformed into a dragon while they were having sex! Beastiality is just not my cup of tea. It's a good read, though.

1-0 out of 5 stars Bad impulse buy....
I bought this book for the last story by Tawny Taylor because it's the beginning of a series I had on my wish list.After reading I took all her books off my wish list.Basically the story revolves around a clan of dragons and the mages who are trying to destroy them, although we didn't get a lot of action there just a glimpse into that part of the story.The rest of the book dealt with the two leads and their relationship...blah,blah,blah.The story wasn't well done and the characters weren't memorable in the least.I did try to read the other offerings in the book but never got past chapter 3 on either of them so not a fan of this book. ... Read more


39. Elizabeth Taylor American Film Institute Life Achievement Award (21)
Paperback: 96 Pages (1993)
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Asin: B000PHMIB2
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A Salute issued by the American Film Institute for Life Achievment presented to Elizabeth Taylor on March 11, 1993. The presentment feature is 96 pages in length and features many tributes from studios and other actors. Many photographs and outtakes are shown of Elizabeth's remarkable film career. Elizabeth was the 21st person so honored by them and this is the commementary program guide issued in her honor. ... Read more


40. A Dedicated Man and Other Stories
by Elizabeth Taylor
 Hardcover: 224 Pages (1965-06)

Isbn: 0701111402
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1965 Hardback from Viking Press 224 pages ... Read more


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