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City of Light by Rupert Christiansen
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive book'Sebastian Faulks. 'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring ... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly a ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
As a singer of other-worldly horror and celestial beatitude alike, Dante has no equal. Yet, in spite of our distance from medieval theology, the Florentine poet's allegorical journey through hell, purgatory and paradise remains one of the essential books of mankind. At least fifty English language versi ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The\Landmark Library
A TLSBook of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedyis another book that everyone ought to read'Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is ... fun ... ingenious ... fascinating'Observer. 'A book worth savour ...Show more
Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony by James Hamilton-Paterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Guernica - Painting the End of the World by James Attlee
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilionat the Paris Worl ...Show more
Guernica: The Life and Travels of a Painting by James Attlee
35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The Landmark Library
Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the Paris World Fair when news arrived of the assault by the German Condor Legion on the undefended Basque town of Guernica, in which hundreds of civilians died. James Attlee offers an illumi ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall - Rome and the Limits of Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy
35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to the west coast of the northern part of Britannia, it ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more
Messiah by Jonathan Keates
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more