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Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
$26.00 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Jewish Lives
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different emotional upheavals, fired Proust's imagination and, ...Show more
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah by Ian Buruma
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an al ...Show more
Warner Bros - The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Jewish Lives
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the ...Show more