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Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaime ...Show more
Confessions - A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his ca ...Show more
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
$42.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street - as a prolific writer. Before he came to London, as one of the "Best of ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"In Dante in Love, A. N. Wilson presents a glittering study of an artist and his world, arguing that without an understanding of medieval Florence, it is impossible to comprehend the meaning of Dante's great poem. He explains how the Italian States were at that time locked into violent feuds, mirrored i ...Show more
Dante in Love by A. N. Wilson
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: near fine
For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem 'Ulysses' on lines from the Inferno and Byron chastised an 'Ungrateful Fl ...Show more
Hamlet (Arden Shakespeare) Revised Edition by W N;Shakespeare A;Taylor Thompson
$17.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.
After encountering the ghost of his father on the castle parapet, Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is convinced that his father's death was part of a foul plot to take the throne. It is up to Hamlet to decide whether his father must be avenged, and if so, should it be he who commits the act? Classics ...Show more
Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her by A.N. Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Andrew Wilson had John Bayley as his tutor at Oxford where he met Iris Murdoch. He remained a close friend of them both throughout her life. It was at Iris's pleading in 1988 that Andrew agreed to write her biography. Bound to be controversial, Andrew pulls no punches in his view on the recent cinema ...Show more
Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure by A. N. D. Haksar (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'Modest, caring for each other, when a couple thus carry on, their mutual love will never fade' The word 'kama' means the desire, especially for sensual pleasure, in Sanskrit. Its proper pursuit was considered an essential part of the well-rounded education of a young patrician. Treating enjoyment as an ...Show more
London by A. N. Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
A short, entertaining and passionate history of London by the bestselling author of The Victorians. The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Com ...Show more
My Name Is Legion by A. N. Wilson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A. N. Wilson has written a wickedly savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain. At times shocking, at times tragic, brilliantly observed, it does for today what Evelyn Waugh did for the thirties and Tom Wolfe's Bonfire Of The Vanities did for the eighties. 'So it was that within minutes o ...Show more