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Beethoven : The Universal Composer (Emminent Lives) by Edmund Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
In "Beethoven", Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of the great composer, brings him to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was ...Show more
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives
An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his early years as a child entertainer in Po ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
Muhammad: Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Eminent Lives
From the bestselling writer of 'The History of God' and the widely acclaimed 'Islam -- A Short History' comes Karen Armstrong's 'Muhammad'. Muhammad was born in 570 C.E., and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and sc ...Show more
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
An eloquent writer, Thomas Jefferson was an awkward public speaker and a reluctant candidate; nevertheless he left an indelible presidential legacy. He penned the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that sla ...Show more
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