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City of Light by Rupert Christiansen
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive book'Sebastian Faulks. 'Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring ... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly a ...Show more
City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: The\Landmark Library
As a singer of other-worldly horror and celestial beatitude alike, Dante has no equal. Yet, in spite of our distance from medieval theology, the Florentine poet's allegorical journey through hell, purgatory and paradise remains one of the essential books of mankind. At least fifty English language versi ...Show more
Dante's Divine Comedy by Ian Thomson
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A TLSBook of the Year. 'Erudite and urgent, Ian Thomson's Dante's Divine Comedyis another book that everyone ought to read'Spectator. 'Succinct but wide-ranging, Ian Thomson's richly illustrated exploration of Dante's masterpiece is ... fun ... ingenious ... fascinating'Observer. 'A book worth savour ...Show more
Guernica - Painting the End of the World by James Attlee
$33.11 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilionat the Paris Worl ...Show more
Hadrian's Wall - Rome and the Limits of Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall. Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretching from the east to the west coast of the northern part of Britannia, it ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled ...Show more
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Plantagenets comes a beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracyOn a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgru ...Show more
Messiah by Jonathan Keates
$22.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more
Messiah: The Landmark Library by Jonathan Keates
$44.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses of robust grandeur. Coolly received in London at first, after Handel's death Messiah enjoyed an extraordinary surge in popularity: it was performed at festi ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
$39.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
$37.99 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more