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REVERENCE
Renewing a Forgotten VirtuePAUL WOODRUFF
£6.95Drawing on thinking in Greek and Chinese traditions, Woodruff argues that reverence is a virtue that begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whate... Learn More -
AMAZING GRACE
The Man Who Was WGRICHARD TOMLINSON
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You Save: 45%W G Grace was arguably one of only two batsmen in the history of cricket (Don Bradman being the other) who, in their prime, have been at least twice as good as their contemporaries. He was in every se... Learn More -
CONSTANT LAMBERT
Beyond The Rio GrandeSTEPHEN LLOYD
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You Save: 45%Sixty years after his tragic early death Constant Lambert (1905-51) is little known today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspiredbut little more, and for a man who self... Learn More -
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JONATHAN SWIFT
In Four Volumes, plus Index VolumeJONATHAN SWIFT
Edited By :DAVID WOOLLEY
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You Save: 67%The collected letters of Jonathan Swift have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth-century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. In the half-centu... Learn More -
CURSED LEGACY
The Tragic Life of Klaus MannFREDERIC SPOTTS
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You Save: 64%Son of Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted and forced to flee from his fatherland, the writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocat... Learn More -
KENNETH CLARK
Life, Art and CivilisationJAMES STOURTON
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You Save: 51%From his time as Bernard Berenson’s protege to his appointment as the youngest-ever director of the National Gallery, Kenneth Clark displayed precocious genius. No voice has exercised so much power ... Learn More -
THE LIVES OF GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
DAVID HUNTER
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You Save: 47%To evaluate the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel’s life could be seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say? This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, no... Learn More -
THE MEMOIRS OF WALTER BAGEHOT
FRANK PROCHASKA
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You Save: 53%Walter Bagehot (1826-77) was a prominent English journalist, banker and man of letters. For many years he was editor of . The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly ‘Bageho... Learn More -
MOURNING DIARY
ROLAND BARTHES
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You Save: 54%The French critic Roland Barthes has guru status among literary theorists. This private diary opens the door onto his strange personal world, recording, day-by-day, the impact of bereavement as he str... Learn More -
THE WILSON-JOHNSON CORRESPONDENCE, 1964-69
Edited by SIMON C SMITH
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You Save: 71%This volume provides all the correspondence between Harold Wilson, who became Prime Minister in October 1964, and President Lyndon B Johnson, who stepped down in January 1969. This period witnessed Br... Learn More
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