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“sue prideaux”

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  • Wild Thing

    A Life of Paul Gauguin

    by Sue Prideaux ...
    **One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2025One of The New Yorker's Top Books of 2025One of Vogue's Best Books of 2025One of the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the YearOne of the New York Public Library's Best Books of 2025One of the Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2025Shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeWinner of the 2025 American Library in Paris Book AwardLonglisted ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • I Am Dynamite!

    A Life of Nietzsche

    by Sue Prideaux ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZEA groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast**Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Wild Thing

    A Life of Paul Gauguin

    by Sue Prideaux ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 45 min

    Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this work, Sue Prideaux reveals that while Gauguin was a complicated man, his scandalous reputation is largely undeserved.Self ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Strindberg

    A Life

    by Sue Prideaux ...
    Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser—August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare. This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life ... Read more

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    I Am Dynamite!

    A Life of Nietzsche

    by Sue Prideaux ...
    Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 19 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZEA groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast**Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    Cold Warriors

    Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

    by Duncan White ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 48 min

    A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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    Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Narrated by Rhett Samuel Price ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours

    **“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street JournalA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    The Dark Interval

    Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Narrated by Ulrich Baer, Rosanne Cash ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 51 min

    From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”—The GuardianGleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

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    Philosopher of the Heart

    The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard

    by Clare Carlisle ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence—how to be a human being in the world?—while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    All the Knowledge in the World

    The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

    by Simon Garfield ...
    Narrated by Tim Bentinck ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 53 min

    From the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comesthe wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day.New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice""A brilliant book about knowledge itself.” —Deirdre Mask, author of The Address Book**“Garfield’s witty history captures th... ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Jacksonland

    President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab

    by Steve Inskeep ...
    Narrated by Steve Inskeep ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 48 min

    Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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    1848

    Year of Revolution

    by Mike Rapport ...
    Narrated by Hugh Kermode ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 13 min

    A "lively, panoramic" history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815—but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe ... Read more

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