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Agamemnon's Kiss - Selected Essays by Inga Clendinnen
Category: Fiction
Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death; and abo ...Show more
Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
Category: History | Series: Canto Classics
In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance ar ...Show more
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics by Inga Clendinnen
Category: Australiana
Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote a Br ...Show more
Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings by Inga Clendinnen; James Boyce (ed.)
Category: Non-Fiction
Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger's Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on all manner of topics. The rich array is introduced by acclaimed historian James Boyce, who traces Clendinnen's life and ...Show more
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Clendinnen
Category: History
In this searching and eloquent book, Inga Clendinnen explores the experience of the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' point of view in an attempt to extract the comprehensible - the recognisably human - from the unthinkable. Winner of the 1999 New South Wales Premier's History Award ...Show more
Tiger's Eye: A Memoir by Inga Clendinnen
Category: Biography
An astonishing memoir by one of Australia's greatest writers. Clendinnen takes us on a journey into dangerous territory in which her body, her mind and her life are irrevocably changed. A brave and mesmerising book, it is not about being ill or well - its true subject is being alive.
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