Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky is a literary biographer and historian of France. He is Professor of Humanities at the Honors College, University of Houston, and the author of many books, including A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning and Boswell’s Enlightenment. Zaretsky is the history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Forward, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Foreign Policy.

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Title	Author	Format	Publication Date	Price
Boswell’s Enlightenment	Zaretsky, Robert	HARDCOVER	03/23/2015	$26.95
Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment	Zaretsky, Robert	HARDCOVER	02/18/2019	$27.95
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning	Zaretsky, Robert	PAPERBACK	11/21/2016	$19.00

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