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Claudia Karvan
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Carl Reinecke
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Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Books That Made Us looks at the history of Australian culture through the books we have read and the stories we have told.
Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, Australian novels have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad.
Touching on colonial invasion, the bush myth, world wars, mass migration, the recognition of Indigenous sovereignty and the emergence of a modern global, multicultural nation, Carl examines how these pivotal events and persuasive ideas have shaped some of Australia's most influential novels and how these books, in turn, made us.
In a panoramic account of Australian fiction stretching from Marcus Clarke to Melissa Lucashenko, Patrick White to Peter Carey and Henry Handel Richardson to Michelle de Kretser, this is a new history of key authors and compelling books that have kept us reading and made a difference for over 200 years.
©2021 Blackfella Films Pty Limited and Carl Reinecke 2021. Carl Reinecke asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this Work. First published in English by HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited in 2021 (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- Versión completa
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Fierce Convictions
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The Long March
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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James Baldwin
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- De: David Leeming
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 570
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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5 out of 5 stars
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Albert Camus
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- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 4 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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2 out of 5 stars
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Making History
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- De: Richard Cohen
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- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Missing 20 pages from book
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Goddess of the Market
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- De: Jennifer Burns
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: Her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfortunate
- De Andrej Drapal en 03-14-18
De: Jennifer Burns
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Existentialism and Excess
- The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre
- De: Gary Cox
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism, combined with his creative and artistic flair, have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical thinking - is a fascinating tale of love and lust, drug abuse, high-profile fallings-out and political and cultural rebellion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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a capitalista biography of Sartre
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De: Gary Cox
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Paradise Lost
- A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- De: David S. Brown
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The newest definitive Fitzgerald biography
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American Comics
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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4 out of 5 stars
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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5 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat Surprised and very pleased
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