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The Age of the Passions: An Interpretation of Adam Smith and Scottish Enlightenment Cultureby John Alfred DwyerISBN 1898410178 (1-898410-17-8)
Hardcover, Tuckwell Press
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The Art Of Cookery: Made Plain And Easyby Hannah GlasseISBN 1903018374 (1-903018-37-4)
Softcover, David Brown Book Co
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Barrow's Boysby Fergus FlemingISBN 186207173X (1-86207-173-X)
Hardcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barrow's Boys'Book summary:There's something about the overwhelming emptiness and terrifying beauty of the polar regions that never fails to attract. They are the most powerful symbols we have left of a world where human-made laws and values count for nothing; no one conquers the frozen wastelands--they merely learn to live by the rules nature dictates. It is easy to see how for a long time the lives of the polar explorers were shrouded in quasi-mystical and heroic terms. This all changed in the 1970s with the publication of Roland Huntford's magnificent biography of Scott and Amundsen, now called The Last Place on Earth, in which he systematically and methodically revealed the levels of incompetence and arrogance with which Scott's expedition was riddled.
In Barrow's Boys Fergus Fleming takes us on an incisive and witty journey through the landmark years of British exploration from 1816 to 1850, marveling at both the bravery and the stupidity involved. Fleming is a historian first and foremost, so he begins by placing exploration in its context. It wasn't some high-minded idealism or wacky sense of adventure, as is often suggested, that placed Britain at the forefront of discovery, but economics and self-interest. At the end of the Napoleonic wars, the British Navy was too large for its peacetime needs. Officers were laid off and advancement was slow, so the Navy needed to find itself a role. Charting the unmapped areas of the world seemed as good an idea as any.
Step forward John Barrow. Barrow was only the Second Secretary at the Admiralty--not normally a position of great influence--yet he was a skilled politician, and he managed to carve out a niche for himself by organizing expedition after expedition. He started inauspiciously by sending Captain James Tuckey off on an ill-fated jaunt up the Congo in search of "Timbuctoo," which was at that time imagined as some African El Dorado, and he ended in failure with the loss of Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage. In between he courted triumph and tragedy; Ross discovered Antarctica, Parry opened up the Arctic with his attempt on the Pole, and Captain Bremer failed to establish northern Australia as the new Singapore.
Fleming has a great feel for the telling detail. He doesn't get lost in endless minutiae that distract from the narrative, but he never fails to remind us of the surrealism of British 19th-century exploration--cocked hats and reindeer-drawn sledges in the Arctic, frock coats in the Sahara. When put like this, it makes it all too easy to see how Scott could have been allowed to botch his journey to the South Pole quite so catastrophically. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Blakeby Peter AckroydISBN 1856192784 (1-85619-278-4)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blake'Book summary:William Blake, a London hosier's son, began having mystical visions at the age of eight and came to see his life as a revelation of eternity. While eking out a living as an engraver, he offered, quite unsuccessfully, his great series of prophetic books, Songs of Innocence and Experience. For Ackroyd, biographer of both Charles Dickens and T. S. Eliot, Blake was a visionary, who long before Freud saw warfare as a form of repressed sexuality and believed there were eternal states of rage, desire and selfhood through which a man passes, keeping his soul intact. The tragedy was that he had the capacity to become a great public and religious poet, but instead turned in upon himself, gaining neither reputation nor influence in his lifetime. [via]
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The Bourbons of Naplesby Harold ActonISBN 1853752916 (1-85375-291-6)
Softcover, Key Porter Books
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Contemporary Memoirs: The Anecdotes and Egotisms of Henry Mackenzie, 1745-1831by Harold William ThompsonISBN 1855063972 (1-85506-397-2)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre DumasISBN 1853267333 (1-85326-733-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions. [via]
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Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 8420676330 (84-206-7633-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Discours Sur L'Origine Et Les Fondements De L'Inegalite Parmi Les Hommesby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 2070325415 (2-07-032541-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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Au cours de l'histoire, l'homme se socialise, apprend à parler, à aimer ; il s'humanise en s'éloignant de sa première condition, simple, heureuse mais quasi animale. Une manière pour Rousseau de formuler la contradiction de la condition humaine : historique, insatisfaite, mais aussi hantée par le rêve de la nature et du bonheur.
Un texte d'une grande éloquence qui ne peut que toucher son lecteur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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Don Quijote de la Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Florencio Sevilla ArroyoISBN 8420634239 (84-206-3423-9)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial
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Don Quijote De La Manchaby Miguel Saavedra De Cervantes, Florencio SevillaISBN 842067205X (84-206-7205-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quijote De La Mancha'Book summary:Si bien Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) gustaba de presentarlo como «la(*CR*)historia de un hijo seco y avellanado», EL QUIJOTE es la obra cumbre de(*CR*)su labor literaria, uno de los libros fundamentales de la cultura(*CR*)universal y, como novela, la más grande de todos los tiempos y aquella(*CR*)en que hunde sus raíces la narrativa moderna. La presente edición,(*CR*)precedida de una esclarecedora introducción de Antonio Rey que sitúa la(*CR*)obra dentro del contexto de la vida de su autor y de la época en que fue(*CR*)escrita, ha corrido a cargo de Florencio Sevilla, quien se ha guiado por(*CR*)un criterio de absoluta fidelidad al texto de la príncipe, a fin de(*CR*)ofrecer un «Quijote» lo más próximo posible al original que Cervantes(*CR*)concibiera. [via]
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Don Quijote De LA Manchaby Salvador Dali, Miguel De Cervantes, Martin de RiquerISBN 8408055496 (84-08-05549-6)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Don Quijote De La Mancha / Don Quixote Man of La Manchaby Miguel Saavendra De Cervantes, Eduardo Alonso, Victor G. Ambrus, Martin de RiquerISBN 8431673966 (84-316-7396-6)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A.
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Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edicion Especial IV Centenarioby Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Alberto Blecua, Andres PozoISBN 8467016906 (84-670-1690-6)
Hardcover, Espasa Calpe, S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quijote de la Mancha: Edicion Especial IV Centenario'Book summary:This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography, book analysis and quotations. This book features the table of contents linked to every part and chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.
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Don Quijote de la Mancha (ortografia y titulo original: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Qvixote de la Mancha) es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Editado en 1605, es una de las obras mas destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las mas traducidas.
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Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraISBN 1853267953 (1-85326-795-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quixote'Book summary:Core Classics Series Stories loved for generations come to life for today's young readers in the Core ClassicsTM series. Faithful to the style, plot, and themes of the originals, Core Classics are designed for use as classroom editions of the literary works listed in the Core Knowledge Sequence. They include introductions by E. D. Hirsch Jr., editor of the Core Knowledge© Series (What Your Kindergartner - Sixth Grader Needs to Know). The Core Classics are generally considered suitable for fourth and fifth grade students. The texts are illustrated, annotated, and include a brief biography of the author. Don Quixote is one of the most famous characters in literature. His name has become a word, "quixotic," that means to do something foolishly impractical for the sake of a high ideal. Equally famous is his companion Sancho Panza. As Don Quixote wanders Spain thinking of himself as a storybook knight-errant, Sancho takes the role of the knight's loyal squire. Don Quixote is idealistic and intelligent, but crazy, because he is living in the everyday world but believing it is the world of romances. He is too old and weak to be a knight-errant, but he doesn't think so. Sancho has solid common sense and sees everyday reality clearly, but he is ignorant and willing to lie. He knows it is useless to try to reason with madmen and so he plays along, hoping to find a profit in it. Cervantes seems to wish we could mix the best qualities of this knight and squire in ourselves; then we would see our everyday selves as we truly are and still strive to be nobler and better. [via]
Du Contrat Socialby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice HalbwachsISBN 2700700368 (2-7007-0036-8)
Hardcover, Aubier, Editions Montaigne
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Eighteenth Century Scotland: New Perspectivesby T. M. Devine, John R. YoungISBN 1862320519 (1-86232-051-9)
Softcover, Tuckwell Press
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El Conde De Monte Cristo/the Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Random House MondadoriISBN 8439710348 (84-397-1034-8)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Conde De Montecristo / The Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it, the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If, doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue.
Description in Spanish: Edmund Dantés, excéntrico y rico aristócrata, es detenido el día de su boda. Han vertido falsas acusaciones sobre él. El magistrado que le juzga completa la infamia enviándole a prisión sin juicio. Pasará catorce años en el castillo de If, escapará, e iniciará una implacable venganza...
Una intriga vertiginosa, un estilo ágil y un profundo análisis moral y cívico son la cualidades de este clásico con el que Dumas alcanzó la consagración internacional.
Una historia irrepetible sobre la traición y la venganza. Una novela más grande que la propia vida. [via]
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El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Salvador Jim-Enez-Fajardo, James A. ParrISBN 1889818119 (1-889818-11-9)
Hardcover, Pegasus Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha'Book summary:La novela más moderna, crítica, tierna, mordaz y divertida de la literatura española. Hay Quijotes para lucir en la estantería, Quijotes para investigar, Quijotes para leer por obligación...Esta Edición Cultural está hecha para disfrutar leyendo el Quijote como lo hicieron sus primeros lectores: Porque incluye anotaciones al margen que proporcionan claves para la interpretación del texto sin entorpecer la continuidad de la lectura. Porque incluye 60 temas culturales desarrrollados en formato visual, que permiten acceder de forma rápida a la información del contexto cultural de la época. Un Quijote para leer y entender. [via]
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- El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha: ISBN 8434865947 (84-348-6594-7)
Hardcover, Ediciones Sm - El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha: ISBN 8403050364 (84-03-05036-4)
Hardcover, Aguilar - El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha: ISBN 8420792772 (84-207-9277-2)
Hardcover, Anaya - El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha: ISBN 8437601169 (84-376-0116-9)
Hardcover - El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha/The ingenious nobleman Don Quijote de la Mancha: ISBN 1889818119 (1-889818-11-9)
Hardcover, Pegasus Press
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes SaavedraISBN 8437601177 (84-376-0117-7)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Mancha'Book summary:Don Quijote de la Mancha, escrito por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, editado en 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traducidas
La novela consta de dos partes: la primera, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, fue publicada en 1605; la segunda, El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, en 1615. [via]More editions of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De LA Mancha:
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El ochoby Katherine Neville, Susana ConstanteISBN 8440616368 (84-406-1636-8)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El ocho'Book summary:Before computer expert Cat Velis can leave for her new job in Algeria, a mysterious fortune-teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for the pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years. Created in the south of France in 1790, the chess set is rumored to contain the secrets behind alchemy, freemasonry, and cosmic forces. But long ago two convent girls hid the valuable chess pieces all over the world because the game played with all of the pieces is dangerously powerful.[via]More editions of El ocho:
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El Paraiso Perdido / Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 8437605911 (84-376-0591-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Paraiso Perdido / Paradise Lost'Book summary:El Paraíso Perdido es la obra de toda una vida dedicada a la literatura, como se desprende del paralelismo de algunas partes de la misma con otros escritos de John Milton (1608-1667).
Dedicado a la política durante un tiempo de la mano de Oliveiro Cromwell, Milton reúne en su literatura todo el enriquecimiento que le aportan los distintos escenarios de su vida diplomática.
Junta a ello su obra irradia el convencimiento pleno en la religión cristiana heredada del mensaje de su padre, un convencido católico ex protestante. Esta segunda parte la desarrola plenamente en este poema bíblico religioso de reminiscencias dantescas.
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Enlightenment And Romance: Gender And Agency In Smollett And Scottby Robert P. IrvineISBN 390675894X (3-906758-94-X)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, John CliffordISBN 1854599224 (1-85459-922-4)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in "Faust," "Part 1," the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate.
This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us "Faust" in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words. [via]
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Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Faust: ISBN 3442075173 (3-442-07517-3)
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Faust I & IIby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart AtkinsISBN 3518030558 (3-518-03055-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Faust I and IIby Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert D. MacDonaldISBN 1870259114 (1-870259-11-4)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust I and II'Book summary:Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poem which has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, and sometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.
The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Frakensteinby Mary W. ShellyISBN 846630407X (84-663-0407-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jonathan WordsworthISBN 1854771175 (1-85477-117-5)
Hardcover, Woodstock Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
Glasgow and the Enlightenmentby Richard B. Sher, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, A. HookISBN 1898410186 (1-898410-18-6)
Hardcover, Tuckwell Press in association with the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
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Goldoniby Carlo Goldoni, Robert D. MacDonaldISBN 1870259483 (1-870259-48-3)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited
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The Hell-Fire Friars: Sex, Politics and Religionby Gerald SusterISBN 1861053452 (1-86105-345-2)
Hardcover, Parkwest Pubns
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Hogarth: the Artist and the Cityby Mark Hallett, Christine RidingISBN 1854376624 (1-85437-662-4)
Softcover, Tate Gallery Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hogarth: the Artist and the City'Book summary:This beautifully illustrated book examines the whole of Hogarth's career, from his beginnings as a young and ambitious engraver in the 1720s, through to his rise to fame as a painter and printmaker in the 1730s and 1740s, and the crystallisation of his aesthetic theories in the treatise "The Analysis of Beauty", published in 1753. Where previous publications have concentrated on just a part of his multifaceted career, this definitive publication examines every aspect of his oeuvre. It examines his remarkable canvases, ranging from elegant conversation pieces to salacious brothel scenes, and from early pictorial sequences such as "A Rake's Progress" to the "Election" series he produced in the last decade of his life; his vibrant drawings and sketches; and the numerous engraved works for which he is perhaps most famous, including "Industry and Idleness", "Gin Lane", "Beer Street" and the "Four Stages of Cruelty". In telling the complete story of Hogarth's life and work, the book offers a new understanding of the breadth of his achievements, demonstrating his brilliance as a graphic satirist, urban commentator, draughtsman, portraitist and history painter, and highlighting his exceptionally innovative role in creating a new kind of art form, the satirical pictorial series. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, "Hogarth" provides the most comprehensive publication on this remarkable artist in print, revealing his unique contribution to the development of modern British art. [via]
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The Jacobite Wars: Scotland and the Military Campaigns of 1715 and 1745by John L. RobertsISBN 1902930290 (1-902930-29-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebridesby James BoswellISBN 3829030029 (3-8290-3002-9)
Softcover, Konemann
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Las Minas Del Rey Salomon / King Salomon's Minesby Henry R. Haggard, Flora CasasISBN 8420639362 (84-206-3936-2)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Le Comte De Monte Christoby DumasISBN 2090318848 (2-09-031884-8)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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Le Comte De Monte Cristo: Tome 1 Le Prisonnier De Chateau D Ifby Alexandre DumasISBN 2253098051 (2-253-09805-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Comte De Monte Cristo: Tome 1 Le Prisonnier De Chateau D If'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 2011552435 (2-01-155243-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:C'est un tel classique qu'on a toujours l'impression de l'avoir déjà lu... ou vu : avec Michel Bouquet dans le rôle de Javert, ou bien Depardieu. Relire donc Les Misérables, publié par Victor Hugo en 1862, offre le plaisir de la reconnaissance et du recommencement. Toujours on sera emporté par la tension romanesque du livre, ses figures inoubliables, ses langues multiples - n'oublions pas que Hugo est le premier à introduire l'argot et la langue populaire dans le français écrit -, ses histoires et son temps. De la récidive malheureuse de Jean Valjean, frais libéré du bagne, à sa progressive rédemption, de l'enfance désastreuse de Cosette à son idylle avec Marius, de la figure sacrificielle de Fantine aux personnages sinistres de Thénardier et de Javert, le roman propose une belle leçon d'humanité vivante. "Je viens détruire la fatalité humaine, écrit Hugo, je condamne l'esclavage, je chasse la misère, j'enseigne l'ignorance, je traite la maladie, j'éclaire la nuit, je hais la haine. Voilà ce que je suis et voilà pourquoi j'ai fait Les Misérables." --Céline Darner [via]
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Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaireby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 2080709054 (2-08-070905-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaire'Book summary:Débranchez vos téléphones portables et relisez Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire pour redécouvrir ce que l'on doit à la solitude et au libre vagabondage de ses pensées. Perpétuellement dérangé, et comme détourné de lui-même par d'incessantes sollicitations, "l'homme pressé" du monde contemporain pourrait bien retrouver dans la lecture de ce chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature française l'occasion d'un recueillement salutaire.
Ces heures de solitude et de méditation sont les seules de la journée où je sois pleinement moi et à moi sans diversion, sans obstacle, et où je puisse véritablement dire être ce que la nature a voulu. Seconde promenade
Si vous avez aimé La Première Gorgée de bière de Philippe Delerm, vous éprouverez sans conteste les délectations d'une prose admirable qui restitue l'expérience élémentaire de la dégustation et de l'attention savoureuse au monde qui caractérise ces moments délivrés de l'urgence où nous nous laissons aller aux joies simples de l'existence.Loin d'exalter l'enracinement et le goût du terroir, Rousseau, en ce sens résolument moderne, nous rappelle qu'un homme libre n'a pas de racines mais des pieds, pour s'en servir et parcourir le monde. Une invitation à la marche, à lire dans l'esprit cosmopolite propre au Siècle des lumières ! --Paul Klein [via]
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Lettres Philosophiquesby VoltaireISBN 2070377032 (2-07-037703-2)
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The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Centuryby Peter LinebaughISBN 1859845762 (1-85984-576-2)
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The Mortal Immortalby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mortal Immortal'Book summary:This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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Observations on the River Wyeby William Gilpin, Jonathan WordsworthISBN 1854770683 (1-85477-068-3)
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Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen, Jose Luis CaramesISBN 8437606780 (84-376-0678-0)
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La obra de Jane Austen ha vencido sin dificultades el paso del tiempo y se ha mantenido en todo momento en un lugar de privilegio en los gustos de lectores y especialistas. Orgullo y prejuicio es una novela de amor o, mejor, una novela de enamorados. Bingley y Jane, Darcy y Elisabeth, Lydia y Wickham luchan para obtener el objeto de su pasión, deben participar en el juego que la sociedad en que viven les propone y deben ganarlo. Sin saltarse las reglas, pero con un tesón capaz de vencer cualquier barrera, llegarán a toda costa a ese matrimonio que para ellos habrá de marcar el inicio de la felicidad soñada. [via]More editions of Orgullo Y Prejuicio / Pride and Prejudice:
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Oroonoko & Other Storiesby Behn AphraISBN 382900902X (3-8290-0902-X)
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Poemsby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 1857150279 (1-85715-027-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poems'Book summary:"Kubla Khan." "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Eolian Harp." Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a genius who wrote some of the greatest poems in the history of the English language. Together with his friend William Wordsworth, he provided the best articulation of Romanticism, as well as some of the most powerful examples of that aesthetic. This collection, from the excellent Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series, includes not only Coleridge's poetry, but also some selections from his insightful essays and letters about poetry. But of course, it's the poems that count the most, as evidenced by this excerpt from one of Coleridge's less legendary works, his beautiful tribute "To William Wordsworth," which was written after hearing his friend give an especially moving reading. These sentiments could easily apply to the author himself: "The tumult rose and ceased: for Peace is nigh / Where Wisdom's voice has found a listening heart." [via]
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 1933652446 (1-933652-44-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pride And Prejudice'Book summary:"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families--in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. Into their midst comes Mr. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. Darcy, who is even richer. Mrs. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane; Darcy, however, is harder to please. Put off by Mrs. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him; when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground.
Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt; and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Some of Austen's best comedy comes from mixing and matching these representatives of different classes and economic strata, demonstrating the hypocrisy at the heart of so many social interactions. And though the novel is rife with romantic misunderstandings, rejected proposals, disastrous elopements, and a requisite happy ending for those who deserve one, Austen never gets so carried away with the romance that she loses sight of the hard economic realities of 19th-century matrimonial maneuvering. Good marriages for penniless girls such as the Bennets are hard to come by, and even Lizzy, who comes to sincerely value Mr. Darcy, remarks when asked when she first began to love him: "It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley." She may be joking, but there's more than a little truth to her sentiment, as well. Jane Austen considered Elizabeth Bennet "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print". Readers of Pride and Prejudice would be hard-pressed to disagree. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Rights of Manby Thomas Paine, Derek MatraversISBN 1853264679 (1-85326-467-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rights of Man'Book summary:Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, it differs from that great work in every relevant respect. Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes, Paine writes with the vigour of a self-taught mast-maker and exciseman. With passionate and rapier wit, Paine challenges Burke's assertion that society cannot be judged by rational standards and found wanting. Rights of Man contains a fully-costed budget, advocating measures such as free education, old age pensions, welfare benefits and child allowance over 100 years before these things were introduced in Britain. It remains a compelling manifesto for social change. [via]
Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment And Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworthby Lori BranchISBN 1932792112 (1-932792-11-2)
Hardcover, Baylor Univ Pr
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Selected Poemsby Michael Hamburger, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Christopher MiddletonISBN 3518030531 (3-518-03053-1)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:This new series brings into modern English a reliable translation of a representative portion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work. This edition, selected from over 140 volumes in German, is the new standard in English, and contains poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, criticism, and scientific writing by the man who is probably the most influential writer in the German language. The executive editors of this collection are Victor Lange of Princeton University, Eric Blackall of Cornell University, and Cyrus Hamlin of Yale University.
Princeton University Press is proud to be the distributor of the twelve volumes in hardcover of the originating publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag. In addition, Princeton will issue paperback reprints of these volumes over the next two years, beginning with volumes one through three.
Goethe, the founder of the poetry of experience, created a body of poetry that is unsurpassed in lucidity of speech and imagery and in instinct for melody and rhythm. Nonetheless, many of his poems are relatively unknown to English-speaking audiences, partly because of the difficulties they have posed to translators. This volume contains translations, side by side with the German originals, of Goethe's major poems--all prepared by eminent American and English writers, and all attesting to his poetic genius.
Goethe's most complex and profound work, Faust was the effort of the great poet's entire lifetime. Written over 60 years, it can be read as a document of Goethe's moral and artistic development. Faust is made available to the English reader in a completely new translation that communicates both its poetic variety and its many levels of tone. The language is present-day English, and Goethe's formal and rhythmic variety is reproduced in all its richness.
The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon Group," and "Shakespeare: A Tribute." Several works in this collection appear for the first time unabridged and in fresh translations.
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The Social Contractby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Derek Matravers, H. J. TozerISBN 1853267813 (1-85326-781-3)
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Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780-1930by Carolyn SteedmanISBN 1853818372 (1-85381-837-2)
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A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 3829008805 (3-8290-0880-5)
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War for Independence and the Transformation of American Societyby Harry M. WardISBN 185728657X (1-85728-657-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Women, Work and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-century Englandby Bridget HillISBN 1857282132 (1-85728-213-2)
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The Works of Alexander Popeby Alexander Pope, Andrew CrozierISBN 1853264318 (1-85326-431-8)
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Works of Algernon Charles Swinburneby A. C. SwinburneISBN 1853264431 (1-85326-443-1)
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BrontkISBN 1933652349 (1-933652-34-9)
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The Young Lady's Pocket Library, or Parental Monitorby Vivien JonesISBN 1855063824 (1-85506-382-4)
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Cartas filosoficas/ Philosophical Lettersby VoltaireISBN 8420603090 (84-206-0309-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering Heightsby Lion FeuchtwangerISBN 842066605X (84-206-6605-X)
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Don Quijote de la ManchaISBN 8441000042 (84-410-0004-2)
Softcover, Pml Ediciones
Find This BookBook summary:While Don Quixote thinks of himself as a brave knight, his trusty sidekick, Sancho Panza, finds out the truth as they battle real and imaginary enemies. [via]
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Don Quijote De La Mancha: Fourth Centenaryby Francisco Rico, Not AvailableISBN 8420467286 (84-204-6728-6)
Hardcover, Alfaguara
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don Quijote De La Mancha: Fourth Centenary'Book summary:Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of terms that will help readers get to know Cervantes language. This beautiful hardbound edition is 5 x 8 inches, 1360 pages of fine biblical Italian paper, and will be sewn at the spine with fine vegetable thread. This work constitutes, without a doubt, the most complete, serious, high quality commemorative edition.
Having an immediate success when first published 400 years ago, and with its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been recognized as the worlds first modern novel. Don Quixote tells the story of a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless, destroy the wicked, and win the heart of his beloved Dulcinea. Seated upon his ever so lean horse, and accompanied by the pragmatic and faithful squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain seeking glory and grand adventure. Along the way the duo meet a dazzling assortment of characters whose diverse beliefs and perspectives reveal how reality and imagination are frequently indistinguishable. [via]
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Las ensonaciones del paseante solitarioby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 8420617075 (84-206-1707-5)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Fausto / Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 8437606772 (84-376-0677-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Frakensteinby Mary W. ShellyISBN 8440619537 (84-406-1953-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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El Ocho/Eightby Katherine NevilleISBN 8466616160 (84-666-1616-0)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Ocho/Eight'Book summary:Nueva York, 1972. Catherine Velis, aficionada a las matemáticas y al ajedrez, trabaja en una auditoría como experta en informática. La firma la destina a Argelia, pero, antes de partir, una vidente le lee las líneas de la mano y le advierte de que un grave peligro se cierne sobre ella. Poco después, un marchante de antigüedades hace a Cat una misteriosa oferta: un cliente suyo está intentando reunir las piezas de un antiguo juego de ajedrez que presuntamente se encuentra en Argelia. Si Cat le consigue esas piezas, obtendrá a cambio una generosa recompensa. Sur de Francia, 1790. Mireille de Rémy y su prima Valentine son dos novicias de la abadía de Montglane. Francia arde en las llamas de la revolución que, entre otros proyectos, pretende aniquilar a la Iglesia y hacerse con sus tesoros. Enterradas desde hace mil años bajo el suelo de la abadía se encuentran las piezas de un ajedrez legendario, que perteneció a Carlomagno. Quien consiga reunir dichas piezas adquirirá un poder ilimitado. Y para mantenerlas fuera del alcance de quienes pudieran abusar de él, Mireille y Valentine deberán repartirlas por todos los confines del mundo. «Una de las pocas narradoras contemporáneas que supo salpicar sus obras de las dosis justas de esoterismo, historia oculta y misterio, mucho antes de que esos ingredientes fueran mezclados en otros cócteles notables.» Javier Sierra [via]
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Le Comte De Monte Cristo 2by Alexandre DumasISBN 2266090348 (2-266-09034-8)
Softcover, Presse Pocket
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Comte De Monte Cristo 2'Book summary:896pages. 17,2x11x3,2cm. Poche. [via]
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Le Comte De Monte Cristo: Tome 1 Le Prisonnier De Chateau D Ifby Alexandre Dumas, Claude SchoppISBN 2221064577 (2-221-06457-7)
Hardcover, R. Laffont
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Comte De Monte Cristo: Tome 1 Le Prisonnier De Chateau D If'Book summary:Collection BOUQUIN. 1502p. 13x20cm. Couverture souple. papier fin. [via]
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 2070102645 (2-07-010264-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:1779pages. in8. Relié. C'est un tel classique qu'on a toujours l'impression de l'avoir déjà lu. ou vu : avec Michel Bouquet dans le rôle de Javert, ou bien Depardieu. Relire donc Les Misérables, publié par Victor Hugo en 1862, offre le plaisir de la reconnaissance et du recommencement. Toujours on sera emporté par la tension romanesque du livre, ses figures inoubliables, ses langues multiples - n'oublions pas que Hugo est le premier à introduire l'argot et la langue populaire dans le français écrit -, ses histoires et son temps. De la récidive malheureuse de Jean Valjean, frais libéré du bagne, à sa progressive rédemption, de l'enfance désastreuse de Cosette à son idylle avec Marius, de la figure sacrificielle de Fantine aux personnages sinistres de Thénardier et de Javert, le roman propose une belle leçon d'humanité vivante. "Je viens détruire la fatalité humaine, écrit Hugo, je condamne l'esclavage, je chasse la misère, j'enseigne l'ignorance, je traite la maladie, j'éclaire la nuit, je hais la haine. Voilà ce que je suis et voilà pourquoi j'ai fait Les Misérables. " -Céline Darner [via]
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