Inga Clendinnen Inga Clendinnen

Inga Clendinnen

Selected Writings

    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles.



Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia’s greatest writers and historians. This selection covers the full scope of her work, from Tiger’s Eye to Aztecs, from her Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. It is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen’s life and evolving thought.



Boyce writes that Clendinnen’s ‘ability to write serious history for a general readership was unrivalled in this country … Her writings are an enduring testament to the truth that while we might “live within the narrow moving band of time we call the present … the secret engine of our present is our past, with its plastic memories, its malleable moralities, its wreathing dreams of desirable futures”.’



‘With the profound moral concern of the best general reader, one of our finest historians brings the Holocaust close up and stares the Medusa down. Inga Clendinnen claims for history the same power as poetry or fiction to enter the silences and make them speak.’ —David Malouf



‘Her respect for the intelligence of her readers, her sacred sense of the moral responsibility of history, and her luminous prose won her a large and devoted public.’ —Tom Griffiths

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2021
May 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.
SELLER
Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Media Pty Ltd
SIZE
2.2
MB

More Books Like This

The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society
2010
Provocations Provocations
2022
Classic Non Fiction Works by Arthur Conan Doyle : The Crime of the Congo/A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916/The Wanderings of a Spiritualist Classic Non Fiction Works by Arthur Conan Doyle : The Crime of the Congo/A Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916/The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
2022
The Children Of Drancy The Children Of Drancy
1989
Works of Thomas De Quincey Works of Thomas De Quincey
2013
The Collected Works of Thomas De Quincey The Collected Works of Thomas De Quincey
2015

More Books by James Boyce

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide
2021
1835 1835
2013
Van Diemen’s Land Van Diemen’s Land
2010
An Innkeepers Tale: The Birth Of Jesus As Remembered By The Innkeeper Of Bethlehem An Innkeepers Tale: The Birth Of Jesus As Remembered By The Innkeeper Of Bethlehem
2011
La dette odieuse de l'Afrique La dette odieuse de l'Afrique
2013
Born Bad Born Bad
2015