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The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka by Louis Begley
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A new biography of Western literature's most iconic writer, from the acclaimed novelist and author of "About Schmidt," Kafkaesque: the very word evokes tortuous bureaucracy, crushing self-doubt, and an almost unbearable inadequacy in the face of higher powers. After Kafka, it can be said, literature was ...Show more
Venice for Lovers by Louis Begley
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Armchair Traveller
Muhlstein and Begley's Venice is a very private view of a place, which will forever inspire dreams of love and passion. Every year for the 30 years of their marriage, Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. La Serenissima has become their second home. The owners of t ...Show more
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
$22.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
In Poland, in 1939, the secure world of assimilated Jews is blown away by the invasion of the Third Reich. Maciek's father disappears into the war's vortex, leaving the orphaned child with his Aunt Tania. It is her cool inventiveness, in their dramatic flight through a landscape of oppression, that ensu ...Show more
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters by Louis Begley
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Why X Matters S.
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment o ...Show more
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