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The resulting text illuminates Wagner and the music-dramas in altogether new ways.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224145736053,"sku":"9780140295191","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140295191_7453295e-0a2d-4edf-a088-ccef35cb9d10.jpg?v=1786011249"},{"product_id":"9780753804711","title":"Confessions Of A Philosopher","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this inspirational book Bryan Magee tells the story of his discovery of philosophy, and in doing so introduces the subject to his reader. Experiences of everyday life provide discussion of philosophers and explain why certain philosophical questions persistently exercise our minds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith great fluency Magee untangles philosophy, making it seem part of everyone's life. Intensely personal and brimming with infectious enthusiasm, this is a wonderful introduction to philosophy by one of the most elegant and accessible writers on the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294664503669,"sku":"9780753804711","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780753804711_bbc052f6-5834-4e4c-8fea-f025f2107dd3.jpg?v=1786016440"},{"product_id":"clouds-of-glory","title":"Clouds Of Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area. It was London's busiest market for stolen goods, the centre of the pickpocket trade, home to a razor gang that terrorised racecourses all over southern England. Its main thoroughfare, Hoxton Street, was known also as the roughest street in Britain.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut among the people born there in its heyday was Bryan Magee, journalist, academic, philosopher, radio and television broadcaster and Member of Parliament.  For him it was home, for his first nine years, until he became an evacuee on the outbreak of war.  In this moving and beautifully written book he recalls the vanished world of his childhood and brings it to life again in all its drama and surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481439740277,"sku":"9780712635608","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712635608.jpg?v=1786089700"},{"product_id":"aspects-of-wagner","title":"Aspects of Wagner","description":"The man whom W.H. Auden called `perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived' has inspired extremes of adulation and loathing. In this penetrating analysis, Bryan Magee outlines the range and depth of Wagner's achievement, and shows how his sensational and erotic music expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He also examines Wagner's detailed stage directions, and the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, and sheds interesting new light on his anti-semitism.This new edition has been extensively revised. It includes a fresh chapter, `Wagner as Music'.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481669378421,"sku":"9780192840127","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192840127.jpg?v=1786089956"},{"product_id":"the-great-philosophers","title":"The Great Philosophers","description":"Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an accessible and exciting account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers. The contributors include A. J. Ayer, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, and John Searle, so that the book is not only an introduction to the philosophers of the past, but gives an invaluable insight into the view and personalities of some of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481702867317,"sku":"9780192893222","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192893222.jpg?v=1786090004"},{"product_id":"growing-up-in-a-war","title":"Growing Up In A War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life. It goes on to tell the story of the Second World War as seen through a child's eyes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrowing Up in a War\u003c\/i\u003e nostalgically evokes the atmostphere of wartime England, the community spirit of a society before television, where very few had cars or telephones. A kid from the East End, he won a scholarship to one of the country's ancient public schools. During the school holidays, he returned to London and the air raids, the doodlebugs and V2 rockets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the war over, Bryan's school sent him to a Lycée in Versailles, and he explored the Paris of those post-war years. Then, back in England, he tumbled into his first love affair. The book comes to an end with his call-up into the army, and his unexpected posting to the School of Military Intelligence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrowing Up in a War\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning autobiography and account of Britain during an extraordinary period of history, by the winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490127192437,"sku":"9781845951399","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781845951399.jpg?v=1786442015"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-bryan-magee.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}