New This Month
Award-winning actress Juliet Stevenson continues her successful run of Henry James recordings with What Maisie Knew, a remarkable tour de force about a young child who is thrust into the adult world of drama and failed relationships. Stevenson’s masterful narration guides the listener through the melodic prose of James’s late middle period. Leighton Pugh gives us another of Émile Zola’s brutal and brilliant novels, L’Assommoir, while Barnaby Edwards presents some of Nietzsche’s most passionate and polemical writing with Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist. We also have the final volume in our series of informative introductions, A Concise History of Italy.
Following a violent and messy divorce, young Maisie Farange floats back and forth between her parents, Beale and Ida, who use her as…
Brutal, gripping and heart-wrenching, L’Assommoir (also known as The Drinking Den) chronicles the tragic downward spiral of Gervaise…
The last works completed before Nietzsche’s final years of insanity, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist contain some of his most…
Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity.
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The NAB Blog: Turbulent times – political thought from Plato to Machiavelli
In our current turbulent times it is tempting to reflect on the nature of the relationship between people and their political leaders. Underpinning that, whether in a democracy or another form of government, there is an implied understanding and acceptance …
