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Soldier, Priest and God: A Life of Alexander the Great

Soldier, Priest and God: A Life of Alexander the Great

Whatever we may think of Alexander—whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath—most peop...
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Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

‘Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA...
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First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong

First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong

In First Man, Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over 50 hours of interviews with...
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The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway

The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated ima...
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Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic

Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic

The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellec...
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Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow

Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow

A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

After his intellectual biography of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his atten...
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Wittgenstein's Family Letters: Corresponding with Ludwig

Wittgenstein's Family Letters: Corresponding with Ludwig

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the grea...
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Levi-Strauss: A Biography

Levi-Strauss: A Biography

Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transfor...
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Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faithRenowned as a prin...
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Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as '...
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John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life

John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life

John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain...
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Personal Impressions: Tewntieth-Century Portraits

Personal Impressions: Tewntieth-Century Portraits

The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Im...
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Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context

Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context

Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial a...
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Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction

Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction

In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him...
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