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1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestryby Andrew BridgefordISBN 0802777422 (0-8027-7742-2)
Softcover, Walker & Co
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The Americanby Henry JamesISBN 0804901767 (0-8049-0176-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American'Book summary:Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana Rigg, Matthew Modine, and Brenda Fricker. [via]
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Artists and Their Museums on the Rivieraby Barbara F. Freed, Alan HalpernISBN 0810927616 (0-8109-2761-6)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Asterix and Cleopatraby Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0752866079 (0-7528-6607-9)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix and Cleopatraby Rene Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866060 (0-7528-6606-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Asterix and the Gladiatorby Albert Uderzo, Albert Unerzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0752866117 (0-7528-6611-7)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix and the Golden Sickleby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866133 (0-7528-6613-3)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asterix and the Golden Sickle'Book summary:Getafix has broken his golden sickle, so Asterix and Obelix visit Lutetia to buy a new one for him. But the sicklesmitha cousin of Obelixhas vanished without a trace. Where could he have gone? And can Asterix solve the mystery and bring Getafix what he needs?[via]More editions of Asterix and the Golden Sickle:
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Asterix and the Gothsby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 075286615X (0-7528-6615-X)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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Asterix and the Laurel Wreathby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866370 (0-7528-6637-0)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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Asterix And The Laurel Wreath: An Asterix Adventureby Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0752866362 (0-7528-6636-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Asterix and the Roman Agentby Albert UderzoISBN 0752866338 (0-7528-6633-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Asterix and the Roman Agentby Rene Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 075286632X (0-7528-6632-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Asterix at the Olympic Gamesby René Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866273 (0-7528-6627-3)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited
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Asterix in Spainby Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866303 (0-7528-6630-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Asterix in Spain: Goscinny and Uderzo Present An Asterix Adventureby Albert Uderzo, Anthea Bell, Derek HockridgeISBN 0752866311 (0-7528-6631-1)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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Asterix the Gladiatorby Rene Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866109 (0-7528-6610-9)
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Asterix the Legionaryby Rene Goscinny, Albert UderzoISBN 0752866214 (0-7528-6621-4)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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At Home in France: Eating and Entertaining With the Frenchby Christopher Petkanas, Jean-Bernard NaudinISBN 0753807084 (0-7538-0708-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Best Short Stories of Guy De Maupassantby Guy De MaupassantISBN 0804901619 (0-8049-0161-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930by Jerrold SeigelISBN 0801860636 (0-8018-6063-6)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusadeby Michael Costen, CostenISBN 0719043328 (0-7190-4332-8)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Cezanne: A Biographyby John RewaldISBN 0810907755 (0-8109-0775-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0783801742 (0-7838-0174-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850by Karl MarxISBN 071780030X (0-7178-0030-X)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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The Culture of Defeat : On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recoveryby Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Jefferson S. ChaseISBN 0805044213 (0-8050-4421-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Das Reich: Resistance and the March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France, June 1944by Max HastingsISBN 0718120744 (0-7181-2074-4)
Hardcover, M. Joseph
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Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Ss Panzer Division Through Franceby Max HastingsISBN 0805014071 (0-8050-1407-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Devil's Doorby Sharan NewmanISBN 0765310341 (0-7653-1034-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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A Discourse on Methodby John Veitch, DescartesISBN 0760756023 (0-7607-5602-3)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Empire of Signsby Roland BarthesISBN 0809042223 (0-8090-4222-3)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Erasersby A. Robbe-GrilletISBN 0802150861 (0-8021-5086-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Exercises in Styleby Raymond QueneauISBN 0811207897 (0-8112-0789-7)
Softcover, New Directions
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The Fat and the Thinby Emile Zola, Ernest Alfred VizetellyISBN 0750904496 (0-7509-0449-6)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Food and Flavours of Haute Provenceby Georgeanne Brennan, Jeffrey FisherISBN 0811812359 (0-8118-1235-9)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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French Chivalry Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Medby PainterISBN 0801490618 (0-8014-9061-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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French Revolutionby George F.E. RudeISBN 0802132723 (0-8021-3272-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Funeral Ritesby Jean Genet, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0802130879 (0-8021-3087-9)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Funeral Rites'Book summary:Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.[via]More editions of Funeral Rites:
Gauguinby Alan Bowness, Paul GauguinISBN 0714814814 (0-7148-1481-4)
Hardcover, Phaidon
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A Girl in Parisby Shusha GuppyISBN 0749321539 (0-7493-2153-9)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Havana World Seriesby Jose LatourISBN 0802141862 (0-8021-4186-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Havana World Series'Book summary:With Havana World Series, one of Latin America's premier crime writers offers a blend of baseball, American mobsters, and corrupt cops. It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series-the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee Braves and the infamous Meyer Lansky's gambling empire is raking in millions in bets. With a team of Cuba's boldest and most ingenious criminals, rival mob boss Joe Bonnano plans to hijack Lanksy's fortune. The heist goes off brilliantly until Bonnano's point man is double-crossed and shot dead. As Lansky's man in the police department investigates the murder, he suspects the involvement of career criminal Mariano Contreras-and to get Bonnano out of the Cuban racket once and for all, Lansky will stop at nothing to track Contreras down. Alive with vibrant detail and a fantastic cast of misfit characters, Havana World Series is an entertaining and suspenseful story.[via]More editions of Havana World Series:
Henri Matisse: A Retrospectiveby John ElderfieldISBN 0810961164 (0-8109-6116-4)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Henry Vby William ShakespeareISBN 0743484878 (0-7434-8487-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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" Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
" Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
" Scene-by-scene plot summaries
" A key to famous lines and phrases
" An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
" An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
" Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
Essay by Michael Neill
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu. [via]
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Hiroshima Mon Amourby Marguerite Duras, Alain Resnais, Richard SeaverISBN 0802131042 (0-8021-3104-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'Book summary:Au cours du tournage d'une coproduction sur la paix, une comédienne française noue une relation éphémère mais passionnée avec un Japonais. Sur cette mince intrigue, Duras est chargée par Alain Resnais d'élaborer le scénario et les dialogues d'un film, Hiroshima mon amour, titre étrange et poétique malgré la référence évidente aux atrocités de la guerre. Avec un art de l'ellipse parfaitement maîtrisé, Duras orchestre une danse sensuelle entre deux personnages qui luttent contre le temps. Lui refuse d'admettre que les atrocités d'Hiroshima ont eu lieu, Elle se tait sur son passé ; pourtant, ces fantômes ressurgissent en fragments, lambeaux d'un passé qui se superposent au moment présent. Les corps des amants se confondent peu à peu et Hiroshima se fond dans Nevers, cadre de la jeunesse de l'actrice marquée par l'opprobre parce qu'elle a aimé un jeune Allemand durant la guerre. Les gros plans sur les corps amoureux sont entrecoupés de scènes de foule et de détails d'une crudité sordide, comme si l'horreur devait, elle aussi et malgré tous les films sur la paix, lutter contre le déni pour se faire entendre. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germainby Diane JohnsonISBN 0792272668 (0-7922-7266-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Jean-christophe: Dawn, Morning, Youth, Revoltby Romain Rolland, Louis AuchinclossISBN 0786703075 (0-7867-0307-5)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 0765356155 (0-7653-5615-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.[via]
Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear.
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Left Bankby Kate MuirISBN 075532501X (0-7553-2501-X)
Hardcover, Review
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Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0783880804 (0-7838-8080-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
Love, Death and Money in the Pays D'Ocby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0807610380 (0-8076-1038-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Lover's Discourse: Fragmentsby Roland BarthesISBN 0809066890 (0-8090-6689-0)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paperby Harriet Scott ChessmanISBN 078624092X (0-7862-4092-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper'Book summary:Set in the lively Parisian art world of the 1880s, this novel imagines a poignant time in the lives of the American impressionist Mary Cassatt and her sister, Lydia. Lydia narrates the story as she poses for five of her sisters paintings. Ill with Brights disease and conscious of impending death, Lydia contemplates her narrowing world. The novels subtle power comes from its sustained inquiry into the very evanescence of life that the paintings record. "How delicately, how perfectly Chessman considers the subtle currents of love and jealousy that mingle in this sibling relationship." The Christian Science Monitor "A moving and intensely introspective portrait of the way art is created and life relinquished." Kirkus Reviews [via]
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The Maids and Deathwatch Two Plays by Jean Genetby Jean GenetISBN 080215056X (0-8021-5056-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Miracle of the Roseby Jean Genet, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0802130887 (0-8021-3088-7)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasseby Kenneth WayneISBN 0810932474 (0-8109-3247-4)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroineby Peter FitzSimonsISBN 0732269199 (0-7322-6919-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo - And the Great Comanders Who Fought Itby Andrew RobertsISBN 0743228324 (0-7432-2832-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon and Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo - And the Great Comanders Who Fought It'Book summary:Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, spent a lot of time worrying about whether Napoleon Bonaparte, the emperor of France, was a gentleman. Napoleon accused his English foe of being a coward. Yet, Andrew Roberts shows in this dual biography, each accorded the other an odd respect, and, like wrestlers in a ring, studied his foe's moves intently all the way to their fateful encounter at Waterloo.
Publicly, Bonaparte and Wellington professed to despise each other. "Even in the boldest things he did there was always a measure of ... meanness," said Wellington of the French emperor, adding later, "Bonaparte's whole life, civil, political, and military, was a fraud." Napoleon said that Wellington "has no courage. He acted out of fear. He had one stroke of fortune, and he knows that such fortune never comes twice." Yet the two, writes Roberts, were very much alike: social outsiders who found their greatness in the army, scholars of a sort, who brought scientific rigor to the study of topography and logistics, and men capable of inspiring great heroism in their soldiers.
In the end, Roberts suggests, Wellington won his battle, but Napoleon won the war. This intriguing study shows how, and it affords much insight into the workings of these great rivals' minds. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Ogreby Barbara Bray, Michel TournierISBN 080185590X (0-8018-5590-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Our Lady of the Flowersby Jean Paul Sartre, Jean GenetISBN 0802130135 (0-8021-3013-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Outcast Doveby Sharan NewmanISBN 0765303779 (0-7653-0377-9)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Paris and Elsewhere: Selected Writingsby Richard CobbISBN 0719554624 (0-7195-5462-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Paul & Virginiaby John Donovan, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreISBN 0720612314 (0-7206-1231-4)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul & Virginia'Book summary:[via]First published in 1788, this is the classic of naive love that inspired the film The Blue Lagoon.Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's only novel is a classic of naïve love. First published in 1788 to wide acclaim, it subsequently appeared in hundreds of editions throughout the world and influenced a generation of French writers, from George Sand and Lamartine to Balzac and Flaubert. In modern times it has inspired major musicals, artworks, a hit song by Celine Dion, and even a chain of luxury hotels on Mauritius. Bernardin was inspired by his friend Rousseau to tell the story of two children who grow up entirely according to nature's laws on an idyllic island free from the corrupting influence of the world. They reach adolescence and fall in love, but tragedy strikes and both die untimely deaths. A key text in the development of the novel, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of European literature.More editions of Paul & Virginia:
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Paul And Virginiaby Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, Sarah JonesISBN 0809594633 (0-8095-9463-3)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul And Virginia'Book summary:In introducing to the Public the present edition of this well known and affecting Tale, -- the _chef d'oeuvre_ of its gifted author, the Publishers take occasion to say, that it affords them no little gratification, to apprise the numerous admirers of "Paul and Virginia," that the _entire_ work of St. Pierre is now presented to them. All the previous editions have been disfigured by interpolations, and mutilated by numerous omissions and alterations, which have had the effect of reducing it from the rank of a Philosophical Tale, to the level of a mere story for children. Of the merits of "Paul and Virginia," it is hardly necessary to utter a word; it tells its own story eloquently and impressively, and in a language simple, natural and true, it touches the common heart of the world. There are but few works that have obtained a greater degree of popularity, none are more deserving it; and the Publishers cannot therefore refrain from expressing a hope that their efforts in thus giving a faithful transcript of the work, -- an acknowledged classic by the European world, -- may be, in some degree, instrumental in awakening here, at home, a taste for those higher works of Fancy, which, while they seek to elevate and strengthen the understanding, instruct and purify the heart. It is in this character that the Tale of "Paul and Virginia" ranks pre-eminent. [via]
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Paul Gauguinby Paul Gauguin, Robert John GoldwaterISBN 0810953358 (0-8109-5335-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922by David FromkinISBN 0805008578 (0-8050-0857-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922'Book summary:Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever. [via]
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions about what might have been done differently, and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of 85 years ago.More editions of Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East:
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Scienceby Amir D. AczelISBN 0743464796 (0-7434-6479-6)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Pleasures and Regretsby Marcel Proust, Louise VareseISBN 0720611105 (0-7206-1110-5)
Softcover, Owen Limited, Peter
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Postmark Parisby Leslie JonathISBN 0811846423 (0-8118-4642-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Quiet Days in Clichyby Henry MillerISBN 080213016X (0-8021-3016-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenmentby Dena GoodmanISBN 0801481740 (0-8014-8174-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 0760755019 (0-7607-5501-9)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Running in Place: Scenes from the South of Franceby Nicholas DelbancoISBN 0802138098 (0-8021-3809-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Saint Joanby Bernard ShawISBN 0808576968 (0-8085-7696-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaireby Guillaume ApollinaireISBN 0811200035 (0-8112-0003-5)
Softcover, New Directions
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Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogentby John F. BentonISBN 0802065503 (0-8020-6550-3)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Originally published by Harper Torchbooks, 1970.
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Shakespeare and Companyby Sylvia BeachISBN 0803260970 (0-8032-6097-0)
Softcover, Bison Books
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Speculum of the Other Womanby Luce Irigaray, Gillian C. GillISBN 0801493307 (0-8014-9330-7)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Talleyrandby Duff CooperISBN 0802137679 (0-8021-3767-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930sby William WiserISBN 0786709367 (0-7867-0936-7)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0809589885 (0-8095-8988-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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What Life Was Like During the Age of Reason: France Ad 1660-1800ISBN 078355463X (0-7835-5463-X)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Ywain, the Knight of the Lionby Chretien, Carleton W. Carroll, Frederick W. Locke, Chrestien De Troyes, Robert William AckermanISBN 0804460841 (0-8044-6084-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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