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Acquired Tastesby Peter MayleISBN 1560545437 (1-56054-543-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Age of Napoleonby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0828104913 (0-8281-0491-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Napoleon'Book summary:Called an "outstanding work of popular history" by The New York Times, this book is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality, as well as the portrait of an entire age. The author explores relevant political, cultural, military, commercial, and social history. [via]
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Being and Nothingnessby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0806522763 (0-8065-2276-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being and Nothingness'Book summary:Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives.
Drawing on history and his own rich imagination for examples, Sartre offers compelling supplements to his more formal arguments. The waiter who detaches himself from his job-role sticks in the reader's memory with greater tenacity than the lengthy discussion of inauthentic life and serves to bring the full force of the argument to life. Even if you're not an angst-addicted poet from North Beach, Being and Nothingness offers you a deep conversation with a brilliant mind--unfortunately, a rare find these days. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Between Meals: An Appetite for Parisby A. J. LieblingISBN 086547236X (0-86547-236-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris'Book summary:A man of Rabelaisian appetite, with the exquisite palate of the true gastronome and the literary flair to match, A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) was a formidable eater and a remarkable man, and his nostalgic recitation of his years and meals in Paris is a pleasure to read, dream on, and drool about.
Liebling treasured a good appetite as a prerequisite for writing about food, as his accounts of substantial meals (two portions of cassoulet, one steak topped with beef marrow, and a dozen or so oysters, for example) attest. For the poised, precise, literary, and humorous flavor of his writing, you need only crack open the book--any page will do. Liebling recounts how to dine superbly without being lead astray by too much money, and he digresses magnificently on the evils of abstemiousness ("No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane"). In this age of diets and pragmatic health care, it's refreshing to read such an inspired and inspiring ode to pleasure. As a means of savoring a love affair with Paris, sparking an interest in a trip to France, restructuring your priorities for the trip you've already planned, or gearing up on the flight over for the gastronomic debauches to come, Liebling is unsurpassed. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Bistro Cookingby Patricia Wells, Judy Kleiber JonesISBN 089480622X (0-89480-622-X)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of Franceby Leonie FriedaISBN 0060744936 (0-06-074493-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of France'Book summary:Catherine de Medici was half French, half Italian. Orphaned in infancy, she was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress Diane de Poitiers. When her husband died as a result of a duelling accident Catherine became queen regent during the short reign of her eldest son. When her second son became king she was the power behind the throne. She nursed dynastic ambitions, but was continually drawn into political and religious intrigues. It had always been said that she was implicated in the notorious Saint Barthlomews Day Massacre, together with the king and her third son who succeeded to the throne in 1574, but was murdered left standing with his assassins dagger in one hand, and his own entrails in the other. Her political influence waned, but she survived long enough to ensure the succession of her son-in-law who had married her daughter Margaret. Léonie Frieda has returned to original sources and re-read the thousands of letters left by Catherine. There has not been a biography in English of Catherine for many years and she believes that the time has come to show her as one of the most influential women in c16th Europe. [via]
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The Charterhouse of Parmaby Henri StendhalISBN 1582879052 (1-58287-905-2)
Hardcover, North Books
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Chasing Cezanneby Peter MayleISBN 067978120X (0-679-78120-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Checkmateby Dorothy DunnettISBN 0899663192 (0-89966-319-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Checkmate'Book summary:The grand finale to Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, "Checkmate" finds Francis Crawford returning to France to lead an army against England. But even as the soldier-scholar succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces in both the French and English courts. "Checkmate" is a masterly evocation of the intrigue and pageantry of sixteenth-century Europe--and a triumphant conclusion to the Lymond saga. 1 map. [via]
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Confessionsby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1853264652 (1-85326-465-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions'Book summary:When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions recreates the world in which he progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe, and he was the author of some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state. [via]
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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbesby Christopher KellyISBN 0874518369 (0-87451-836-9)
Softcover, Dartmouth College
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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbesby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Roger D. Masters, Christopher Kelly, Peter G. Stillman, Chretien Guillaume De Lamoignon De MalesherbesISBN 0874517079 (0-87451-707-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Confessions of J. J. Rousseauby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 141421510X (1-4142-1510-X)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseauby Edmund Wilson, Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 1417926856 (1-4179-2685-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau'Book summary:1923. Translated from the French. With a preface by Edmund Wilson. Rousseau, philosopher and Father of the Romantic Movement, The Confessions is his landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature. In this work, Rousseau frankly and sincerely settles accounts with himself in an effort to project his true image to the world. In so doing he reveals the details of a man who paid little regard to accepted morality and social conventions. [via]
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Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseauby Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maruice LeloirISBN 0848259602 (0-8482-5960-2)
Hardcover, Norwood Editions
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Cousin Betteby Honore De Balzac, Marion Ayton CrawfordISBN 0140441603 (0-14-044160-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cousin Bette'Book summary:This new translation has an introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context [via]
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Softcover, Modern Library - Cousin Bette: ISBN 0140268219 (0-14-026821-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Cousin Bette: ISBN 0192826069 (0-19-282606-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Cousin Bette: ISBN 0375400761 (0-375-40076-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Cousin Bette: ISBN 0679406719 (0-679-40671-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Cousin Bette: ISBN 0140441603 (0-14-044160-3)
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 1425557309 (1-4255-5730-9)
Softcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women. [via]
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Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Democracy in America: ISBN 0872204944 (0-87220-494-4)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc - Democracy in America: ISBN 089526160X (0-89526-160-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services - Democracy in America: ISBN 1425557309 (1-4255-5730-9)
Softcover, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
- Democracy in America: ISBN 1853264806 (1-85326-480-6)
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Democracy in Americaby Arthur Goldhammer, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 1931082545 (1-931082-54-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (183540), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest, and the vital role of religion in American life, while prophetically probing the deep differences between the free and slave states. The clear, fluid, and vigorous translation by Arthur Goldhammer is the first to fully capture Tocquevilles achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a profound political thinker. [via]
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Democracy in Americaby Henry Reeve, Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 1584772492 (1-58477-249-2)
Hardcover, Lawbook Exchange Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Reprint of the first English-language edition. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville [1805-1859] and Gustave de Beaumont [fl.1835] were sent to the United States by the French government to study American prisons, which were renowned for their progressive and humane methods. They were pleased to accept this assignment because they were intrigued by the idea of American democracy. Tocqueville and Beaumont spent nine months in the country, traveling as far west as Michigan and as far south as New Orleans. Throughout the tour, Tocqueville used his social connections to arrange meetings with several prominent and influential thinkers of the day. He recorded his thoughts on the structure of the government and the judicial system, and commented on everyday people and the nation's political culture and social institutions. His observations on slavery, in particular, are impassioned and critical. These notes formed the basis of Democracy in America. This landmark work initiated a dialogue about the nature of democracy and the United States and its people that continues to this day. Originally published: New York: Adlard and Saunders, 1838. xxx, 464 pp. [via]
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The Devils of Loudunby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0786703687 (0-7867-0368-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devils of Loudun'Book summary:In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world. [via]
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Dragonfly in Amberby Diana GabaldonISBN 0385335970 (0-385-33597-0)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonfly in Amber'Book summary:From the author of outlander... A magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century scotland...for twenty years claire randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about james fraser, a scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, brianna, as claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden paris court of charles stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves [via]
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Education Sentimentaleby Flaubert GustaveISBN 2070361470 (2-07-036147-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Education Sentimentale'Book summary:499pages. 18x11x2cm. Broché. De 1840 à 1867, la vie fait L'Éducation sentimentale de Frédéric Moreau et de toute une jeunesse idéaliste qui a préparé dans la fièvre la révolution de 1848. Le roman s'ouvre sur des rêves exaltés et s'achève sur la médiocrité des uns et des autres. Entre temps, la vie s'est écoulée autour de Frédéric, qui semble n'avoir pas plus participé aux mutations de son temps qu'à l'édifice de sa propre destinée potentielle. Au cours de cette existence, Madame Arnoux, dont les apparitions sont autant de surgissements mystiques, tient lieu au jeune homme d'absolu insaisissable. Lui qui rêvait de terres lointaines et d'ouvrages romantiques déchirants dont il se voyait l'auteur génial, se retrouve, en guise de destination exotique, à Nogent, la ville de son enfance. Au terme de son parcours, que peut-il faire d'autre que ponctuer sa conversation avec Deslauriers, le pragmatique non moins malheureux, de "te souviens-tu" ? Flaubert éclaire ses personnages d'une lumière tantôt ironique, tantôt sympathique, et s'il adopte parfois une vision panoramique des choses, c'est semble-t-il pour mieux se couler dans l'esprit de son héros afin de faire vivre au lecteur les velléités de son caractère. -Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Risesby Ernest HemingwayISBN 1555460453 (1-55546-045-3)
Hardcover, Chelsea House Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises'Book summary:Bloom suggests that signs of the permanent canonical status of the work of Ernest Hemingway seem beyond doubt. He puts The Sun Also Rises on a short list of modern American novels that appear certain to endure.
The title, Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Ernest Hemingway, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Risesby Harold BloomISBN 0791041050 (0-7910-4105-0)
Softcover, Facts on File
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Eugenie Grandetby Honore De BalzacISBN 1417999802 (1-4179-9980-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugenie Grandet'Book summary:This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every 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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Eugénie Grandet (1833) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. Balzac conceived his grand project, The Human Comedy, while writing Eugénie Grandet and incorporated it into the Comedie by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition.
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Hardcover, North Books - Eugenie Grandet: ISBN 0877207461 (0-87720-746-1)
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Eugenie Grandetby Honorato de BalzacISBN 2035881897 (2-03-588189-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugenie Grandet'Book summary:447pages. 11,0cm x 17,0cm x 1,8cm. broché. Un ancien maître tonnelier qui n'existe que par l'or qu'il accumule, une jeune fille recluse qui naît à la vie en découvrant l'amour, un jeune Parisien raffiné résolu à parvenir: Eugénie Grandet interroge fiévreusement le sens du réel, à une époque désertée par une monarchie légitime et un catholicisme jadis pourvoyeurs d'ordre. Dans ce roman, le premier des Scènes de la vie de province, Balzac renouvelle un thème littéraire déjà ancien. En passant du théâtre au roman, la province cesse d'être un pur objet de satire: elle exprime une profonde inquiétude historique, liée à d'importants bouleversements politiques, économiques et sociaux. [via]
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Fiestaby Ernest HemingwayISBN 8497597931 (84-9759-793-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Food Lover's Guide to Parisby Patricia Wells, Peter TurnleyISBN 1563053268 (1-56305-326-8)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food Lover's Guide to Paris'Book summary:Let's face it. Finding the best of the fabled cuisine in Paris can be difficult for us Americans. We're thrown off by the language, the numerous terms for eateries, and the French themselves, who love to pretend they don't speak English.
That's why Patricia Wells's updated guide, now in its fourth edition, is a hit. With detailed information on 450 restaurants, Wells takes readers by the hand and demystifies the culture so well known for its luscious food and demanding gourmands. Sidebars abound: she dissects breads, foie gras, and oysters--and even gives the cultural background on why the French may drink wine in the morning (to kill worms, of course), as well as discussing the pros and cons of eating the rinds of cheeses. Also listed are the best bakeries, cafés, and specialty shops, as well as 50 recipes to try at home.
If there is a criticism to be made of this sturdy and informative book, it's of the writing of this International Herald Tribune critic, which is sometimes riddled with stock descriptions and clichés. Yet readers are likely to forgive her this occasional foible, as Wells's interesting details and enthusiasm are enough to send devout Italophiles, even, to Paris--where they can sink their teeth into those crusty baguettes. --Melissa Rossi [via]
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French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of Franceby Richard GoodmanISBN 1565123522 (1-56512-352-2)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Is Paris Burning?by Larry CollinsISBN 0785812466 (0-7858-1246-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Paris Burning?'Book summary:[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Read by Frederick Davidson]
''Is Paris burning?'' is the question Hitler asked over and over as the French Second and American Fourth Divisions battered their way into the city.
Few moments in history are as stirring as the Allied liberation of Paris, yet few people are aware of how narrowly -- and how miraculously -- the city escaped Hitler's secret plan to reduce it to ashes. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs, in meticulous and riveting detail, the network of fateful events -- day by day, moment by moment -- that saved the City of Light.
Bestselling authors and renowned journalists Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre spent three years researching this book, drawing on French Resistance radio messages, German military records, countless interviews, and secret correspondence between de Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower. Here they re-create the drama, the fervor, and the triumph that heralded one of the most dramatic events of our time. [via]More editions of Is Paris Burning?:
L'Education Sentimentaleby Gustave Flaubert, Peter Michael WetherillISBN 273700117X (2-7370-0117-X)
Hardcover, Editions Garnier
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LA Cartuja De Parma / The Chartreuse Of Parmaby StendhalISBN 842063896X (84-206-3896-X)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Cartuja De Parma / The Chartreuse Of Parma'Book summary:La preferencia entre Rojo y negro (L 5586) y LA CARTUJA DE PARMA suele ser tema de discusion entre los lectores y criticos admiradores de STENDHAL (1783-1842). Escrita en pocas semanas despues de ocho anos de falta de tension creeadora en el destierro de Civitavecchia, la historia protagonizada por Fabricio del Dongo y Clelia Conti, el conde Mosca y la duquesa Sanseverina, es una afortunadisima sintesis literaria de recuerdos, experiencias decantadas, vida asimilada y genio creador. La presente edicion va precedida de un esclarecedor prologo de Consuelo Berges -traductora asimismo de la obra- y se cierra con el estudio clasico de Balzac sobre esta gran novela. [via]
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La Democracia En America / Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Dolores Sanchez De AleuISBN 8420673463 (84-206-7346-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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The Last Great Dance on Earthby Sandra GullandISBN 0684856085 (0-684-85608-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Le Divorceby Diane JohnsonISBN 0452277337 (0-452-27733-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Divorce'Book summary:Diane Johnson updates the transatlantic novel so gorgeously rendered by Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Nathaniel Hawthorne; evokes the spirit of such expatriates sojourning in Paris as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and mines the pathos of modern fiction in creating this wonderful and important novel. Isabel Walker, eerily reminiscent of James's Isabel Archer, is a young film-school dropout who travels to Paris to aid her stepsister, who is going through a divorce. Isabel's California cool, American freedoms, and feminist slants comingle, successfully and fractiously, with the customs, biases, and complex sexuality of modern Europe. The result modulates between introspection and hilarity, and a quick, Hollywood-inspired sweep of violent action in the end doesn't undermine the author's mastery of Old World vs. New--in fact, it provides an ironic scrim. [via]
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Le Pere Goriotby Honore De BalzacISBN 2266083279 (2-266-08327-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhoodby Marcel PagnolISBN 0865472564 (0-86547-256-4)
Hardcover, North Point Press
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhoodby Marcel Pagnol, Rita Barisse, Alice WatersISBN 0865472572 (0-86547-257-2)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood'Book summary:Bathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age," Pagnol is best known for such films as The Baker's Wife, Harvest, Fanny, and Topaze, as well as the screen adaptations of his novels Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs (North Point, 1988). But he never forgot the magic of his Provencal childhood, and when he set his memories to paper late in life the result was a great new success. My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle appeared on the scene like a fresh breeze, captivating readers with its sweet enchantments. Pagnol recalls his days hunting and fishing in the hill country, his jaunts about Marseilles, his schoolboy diversions, and above all his family: his anticlerical father and sanctimonious uncle, his mild and beautiful mother, and many others. This bright and lively book sparkles with the charm and magic that were Marcel Pagnol's own.[via]More editions of My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood:
Paris in the Fiftiesby Stanley Karnow, Annette KarnowISBN 0812931378 (0-8129-3137-8)
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Scaramoucheby Rafael SabatiniISBN 0393323307 (0-393-32330-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Scaramouche the Kingmakerby Raphael SabatiniISBN 0848808797 (0-8488-0879-7)
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Sentimental Educationby Gustave Flaubert, Claudie Bernard, Kathleen RustumISBN 1593083068 (1-59308-306-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sentimental Education'Book summary:[via]Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Considered one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century, Sentimental Education blends brilliantly realized details of a tumultuous time and place with the intimate story of a lifelong romantic obsession, one that closely mirrors the central passion of Flauberts own life.
Set amid the violent social upheaval of the Revolution of 1848, the novel tells of young Frédéric Moreaus idealistic attraction to a married woman some years his senior. Smitten by his first sight of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric idolizes her for many years, despite her refusal to encourage him and his own indecision. He befriends her husband, an art dealer, in order to be near her, and soon finds himself drawn first into Jacques Arnouxs heady social circle and then into his disastrous financial speculations.
As a young teenager, Flaubert himself became romantically obsessed with a married woman with whom he kept in touch for the rest of his life, and many of the characters in Sentimental Education, including Madame Arnoux, are based on friends and acquaintances of the great French author. In this vivid novel, all are beset by financial difficulties, ideological conflicts, and friendship betrayed as their lives are changed forever by the revolution.
Claudie Bernard is Professor of French literature at New York University, and the author of Le Chouan Romanesque, Balzac, Barbey dAurevilly, Hugo, Le Passé recomposé, le roman historique français au dix-neuvième siècle, and of many essays on nineteenth-century French literature and the history of ideas.
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Silkby Guido Waldman, Alessandro BariccoISBN 186046310X (1-86046-310-X)
Softcover, Harvill Press
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Silkby Alessandro BariccoISBN 1860463665 (1-86046-366-5)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silk'Book summary:When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour leaves his small town and travels to Japan to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. There he falls in love with another man's concubine, and during subsequent visits their secret and silent affair develops. [via]
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Tales of Passion, Tales of Woeby Sandra GullandISBN 0684856077 (0-684-85607-7)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Ten Years Laterby Alexandre DumasISBN 1589632257 (1-58963-225-7)
Softcover, Intl Law & Taxation Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Years Later'Book summary:D'Artagnan Romance III-B In March 1844 the French magazine _Le Siècle,_ printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. The book at hand is the second volume of the third serial. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs. Athos still resides at La Fère while his son, Raoul de Bragelonne, has entered into the service in the household of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he has his eyes on an entirely different object than his father -- his childhood companion, Louise de la Valliere, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Porthos, now a baron, is off on some mysterious mission along with Aramis, who is now the Bishop of Vannes. (Jacketless library hardcover.) [via]
Two Towns in Provenceby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0844667463 (0-8446-6746-3)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Vicomte De Bragelonneby Alexandre DumasISBN 1592248195 (1-59224-819-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vicomte De Bragelonne'Book summary:D'Artagnan Romance III-A DAR-IIIA In March 1844 the French magazine _Le Siecle,_ printed the first installemnt of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. As this third serial begins, it is now 1660, and although promised the captaincy of the musketeers at the close of _Twenty Years After,_ D'Artagnan is still trailing his sword in the Louvre as a lowly lieutenant. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs. Athos still resides at La Fère while his son, Raoul de Bragelonne, has entered into the service in the household of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he has his eyes on an entirely different object than his father -- his childhood companion, Louise de la Vallière, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Porthos, now a baron, is off on some mysterious mission along with Aramis, who is now the Bishop of Vannes. (Jacketless library hardcover.) [via]
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Voyagerby Diana GabaldonISBN 0440217563 (0-440-21756-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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LA Chartreuse De Parme: Chronologie, Presentation, Notes, Dossierby Stendhal, Fabienne BercegolISBN 2080711199 (2-08-071119-9)
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Education Sentimentaleby Gustave FlaubertISBN 2253010693 (2-253-01069-3)
Softcover, Le Livre de poche
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Eugenie Grandet: Level 2by Honoré de BalzacISBN 2090319216 (2-09-031921-6)
Hardcover, Creations loisirs enseignement International
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Paris Brule-T-Il?/Is Paris Burning?by Larry Collins, LapierreISBN 2266061356 (2-266-06135-6)
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Setaby Alessandro BariccoISBN 8817660590 (88-17-66059-0)
Hardcover, Rizzoli
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