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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A timeless and inspiring gift for Father's Day. Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday ... A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017 ... Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost ...Show more
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading-and relivin -Homer's epic masterpiece. "My favourite classicist once again combines meticulous literary investigation with warm and wrenching human emotion - books like these are why ...Show more
Elusive Embrace by Daniel Mendelsohn
$24.95 AUD
Category: Psychology and Self-help
Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also ...Show more
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be B ...Show more
How Beautiful it is and How Easily it Can be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn
$23.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
Whether on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new novel or revisiting a classic work of literature, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, in "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Ca ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
$40.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust, an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in ...Show more
Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Page-Barbour Lectures | Reading Level: near fine
In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of th ...Show more
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: New York Review Collections (Hardcover)
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for "The New York Review of Books," "The New Yorker," and "The New York Times Book Review" have earned him a reputation as "one of the greatest critics of our time" ("Poets& Writers"). In "Waiting for the Barbarians," he brings together tw ...Show more
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