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A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: Reference
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
From Prix Méditerranée-winning author Daniel Mendelsohn (shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pen Art of the Essay Award) comes a collection of eclectic writing that interrogates contemporary life and pop culture with wisdom and humour. 'Our most irresistible li ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unm ...Show more
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
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Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding' Sebastian Barry'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise'Jonathan LethemIn this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn ...Show more
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