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Adventurer - The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch (Contribution by)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography
The iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), a storied serial seducer, was also an aspiring priest, an army officer, a diplomat, a gambler, a spy, and a con man. Leo Damrosch vibrantly brings to life Casanova and the world he inhabited.
Eternity's Sunrise - William Blake by Leo Damrosch
$35.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding se ...Show more
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the eighteenth-century literary genius who changed the course of history, traced with novelistic verve.Motherless child, failed apprentice, autodidact, impossibly odd lover, Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century scene as a l ...Show more
The Club - Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
$20.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review "Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities -- the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie -- to vivid life..."--The New York Times Book Review In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his frien ...Show more
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