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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
$70.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Humans cannot live without stories. But one story has proved itself the most durable and hauntingly real of all time. The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of thr ...Show more
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the N ...Show more
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power?How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power?And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakesp ...Show more
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