Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

25.00 JOD

Please allow 2 – 5 weeks for delivery of this item

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.

Description

Additional information

Weight 0.793 kg
Dimensions 4.8 × 15.4 × 23.6 cm
by

Format

Hardback

Language

Pages

512

Publisher

Year Published

2022-9-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1529392748

About The Author

Andrea Wulf was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now lives in England. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including the Costa prize-winning biography of Alexander Humboldt, The Invention of Nature. The Brother Gardeners won the American Horticultural Society Book Award and was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her book Founding Gardeners was on the New York Times bestseller list. Andrea has written for many newspapers including the Guardian, LA Times and New York Times. She was the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013 and a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. She appears regularly on TV and radio.

This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be this fun. This witty, gossipy, sparkling history . . . fizzed with creative energy

Other text

From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today