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The Ancien Regimeby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0460014382 (0-460-01438-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancien Regime'Book summary:Alexis de Tocqueville was a French politician who was bitterly opposed to the seizure of power by Napoleon III in 1851 which put an end to his political career. The rest of his life was devoted to the study of French society and the ways in which it had been affrected by the revolution of 1789. Tocqueville's work showed that the revolution of 1789 was not so much a new start as a development of trends already present. It remains to this day both a brilliant investigation of its subject and a relevant comment on the problems of preserving the freedom of the individual within the modern state. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De ExuperyISBN 9870000746 (987-00-0074-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 9500400480 (950-04-0048-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:Uno de los clásicos de la literatura para niños, que en el criterio de muchos debe ser leído y comentado por un adulto, pero también un indiscutible libro para adultos. Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor trata sobre los valores humanos y enseñanzas para la vida. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Saint-ExuperyISBN 9562014320 (956-201-432-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrewby Peter MayleISBN 0375705619 (0-375-70561-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew'Book summary:Peter Mayle has done it again--but differently. Travelling this time beyond his adopted Provence throughout France, the food and travel writer has produced French Lessons, a celebration of many of that country's gastronomic joys. Whether pursuing La Foire de Fromages, the annual cheese fair at Livarot; a Burgundian marathon offering runners Médoc refreshment; or a village truffle mass that concludes with a heady dégustation of the newly blessed tuber, Mayle takes his readers in hand and shows all. Wide-eyed yet knowing, ever affable but with a touch of mischief, he's an ideal companion, the best possible narrator of his lively food adventures.
Author of the bestselling A Year in Provence, Mayle's gastronomic baptism occurs when, as a 19-year-old, he dines for the first time in France. "At the first mouthful of French bread and French butter," he writes, "my taste buds, dormant until then, went into spasm." The paroxysm leads to serious food-and-wine perambulations--and, finally, to chapters including "The Thigh-Taster of Vitel" (a frog-eating fete); "Slow Food" (snail love in Martigny les Bains) and "The Guided Stomach" (an investigation of the Michelin Guide restaurant inspection), among others. Readers are also present for a debate on the secret of the perfect omelette; a search for the best possible chicken in Bourg-en-Bresse; and a visit to a St. Tropez restaurant notable for its scantily clad habitués. Those familiar with Mayle's work, and those yet to discover it, are in for a treat. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Hotel Pastisby Peter MayleISBN 0679751114 (0-679-75111-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Labyrinthby Kate MosseISBN 0425213978 (0-425-21397-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinth'Book summary:In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe. In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to the political power she craves; while a man who has great power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and everyone who stands in his way. [via]
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0395240050 (0-395-24005-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:95 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte, de l'auteur. Couverture rempliée. Ouvrage de bibliothèque avec une couverture plastique transparente sur [via]
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- Le Petit Prince: ISBN 039511148X (0-395-11148-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 2070105024 (2-07-010502-4)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 2070513289 (2-07-051328-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 2070516458 (2-07-051645-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 2070593398 (2-07-059339-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 0395240050 (0-395-24005-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Le Petit Princeby De SaintISBN 2070334538 (2-07-033453-8)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Le Rouge Et Le Noirby StendhalISBN 2035881374 (2-03-588137-4)
Softcover, Larousse Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Rouge Et Le Noir'Book summary:Au rouge des armes, Julien Sorel préfèrera le noir des ordres. Au cours de son ascension sociale, deux femmes se singularisent, comme pour figurer les deux penchants de son caractère : Madame de Rênal - le rêve, l'aspiration à un bonheur pur et simple - et Mathilde de La Mole - l'énergie, l'action brillante et fébrile. A ces composantes stendhaliennes (conception de la vie qui dépasse la stratégie narrative pour s'étendre à l'existence de l'auteur) correspondent deux facettes stylistiques : la sobriété et la restriction du champ de vision. Dans cette Chronique de 1830, bien avant l'existence du cinéma donc, Stendhal alterne les prises de vue pour concilier réalisme et romantisme. Le Rouge et le Noir, portrait social, est également un roman de l'individualité où le regard des personnages sert de philtre au narrateur et où la cristallisation stendhalienne, cette phase irisée De l'amour, trouve un formidable support dans les champs, contrechamps, plongées et contre-plongées. Cette écriture visuelle ajoute à l'analyse une intelligence psychologique profonde. Inversement, le ton dépouillé permet au romantisme d'éviter le lyrisme abusif et de demeurer ironique envers la société sclérosée de la France de la Restauration. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Richard HowardISBN 0156012073 (0-15-601207-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Prince'Book summary:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:
I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Little Prince:
- The Little Prince: ISBN 0156465116 (0-15-646511-6)
Softcover, Harcourt - The Little Prince: ISBN 0156528207 (0-15-652820-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - The Little Prince: ISBN 0151528209 (0-15-152820-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Little Prince: ISBN 0152438203 (0-15-243820-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Little Prince: ISBN 0152465030 (0-15-246503-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Little Prince: ISBN 0783815484 (0-7838-1548-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - Little Prince: ISBN 0156012073 (0-15-601207-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
- The Little Prince: ISBN 0156465116 (0-15-646511-6)
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The Little Princeby Richard Howard, Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156012197 (0-15-601219-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Prince'Book summary:You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a section entitled "How It All Began". "Is The Little Prince a story written for children or is it a meditation intended for adults?"
The Art of Living is discussed, along with a system of values, and the train of thought behind them is the unifying element. You are invited to "look at the book, and allow yourself to travel from one image to the next... " It was written and published more than 50 years ago in the USA, and the author was a Frenchman who illustrated the book himself; it was later translated by Kathryn Woods. The Little Prince is still very popular and has now been translated into many languages. Shortly after it was first written, the author died--disappearing together with his plane somewhere over the Mediterranean. This Gift edition contains all the original illustrations, plus some more original drawings that came to light later and have been published here for the first time.--Susan Naylor
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The Little Princeby Irene Testot-Ferry, A. ExuperyISBN 1853261580 (1-85326-158-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Prince'Book summary:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:
I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Little Prince:
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Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0385092601 (0-385-09260-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the French Revolution'Book summary:The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville. [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleonby Francois Furet, Francoise Melonio, Alexis De Tocqueville, Alan S. KahanISBN 0226805336 (0-226-80533-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon'Book summary:One is sorely tempted to allow the marvelously lucid prose in Alan S. Kahan's new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the French Revolution speak for itself: "In 1789 the French made the greatest effort ever undertaken by any people to disassociate themselves from their past, and to put an abyss between what they had been and what they wished to become." But as Tocqueville found out when--with the hindsight of half a century--he examined the historical records, the revolution was really not so radical a turn of events. "True, it took the world by surprise, and yet it was the result of a very long process, the sudden and violent climax of a task to which ten generations had contributed." Thus the first volume of The Old Regime and the Revolution concerns itself with the state of affairs before 1798, getting beyond the "confused and often mistaken notions" of his contemporaries "about the manner in which business was conducted, the real practices of institutions ... the real basis of ideas and mores." Although many historians have taken on the French Revolution in the years since Tocqueville's analysis was first published, few have addressed the subject with as effective a combination of insight and clarity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution : The Complete Textby Alexis de Tocqueville, Alan S. Kahan, Francois Furet, Francoise MelonioISBN 0226805298 (0-226-80529-8)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the Revolution : The Complete Text'Book summary:One is sorely tempted to allow the marvelously lucid prose in Alan S. Kahan's new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the French Revolution speak for itself: "In 1789 the French made the greatest effort ever undertaken by any people to disassociate themselves from their past, and to put an abyss between what they had been and what they wished to become." But as Tocqueville found out when--with the hindsight of half a century--he examined the historical records, the revolution was really not so radical a turn of events. "True, it took the world by surprise, and yet it was the result of a very long process, the sudden and violent climax of a task to which ten generations had contributed." Thus the first volume of The Old Regime and the Revolution concerns itself with the state of affairs before 1798, getting beyond the "confused and often mistaken notions" of his contemporaries "about the manner in which business was conducted, the real practices of institutions ... the real basis of ideas and mores." Although many historians have taken on the French Revolution in the years since Tocqueville's analysis was first published, few have addressed the subject with as effective a combination of insight and clarity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelierby Thaddeus CarhartISBN 0375758623 (0-375-75862-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier'Book summary:Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartiers oddest hangout, where locals from university professors to pipefitters gather on Friday evenings to discuss music, love, and life over a glass of wine.
Luc, the ateliers master, proves an excellent guide to the history of this most gloriously impractical of instruments. A bewildering variety passes through his restorers hands: delicate ancient pianofortes, one perhaps the onetime possession of Beethoven. Great hulking beasts of thunderous voice. And the modest piano with the heart of a lion that was to become Thads own.
What emerges is a warm and intuitive portrait of the secret Paris one closed to all but a knowing few. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is the perfect book for music lovers, or for anyone who longs to recapture a lost passion. [via]More editions of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier:
- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank : Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier: ISBN 0375503048 (0-375-50304-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier: ISBN 0375758623 (0-375-75862-3)
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- The Piano Shop on the Left Bank : Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier: ISBN 0375503048 (0-375-50304-8)
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelierby Thaddeus CarhartISBN 0753156210 (0-7531-5621-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Bruce Robbins, Horace Barnett SamuelISBN 159308286X (1-59308-286-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red and the Black'Book summary:Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical picture of French Restoration society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui. The complex, sympathetic portrayal of Julien, the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions, makes him Stendhal's most brilliant and human creation-and one of the greatest characters in European literature.[via]
Translated with an introduction by Roger Gard.More editions of Red and the Black:
- Red and the Black: ISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Red and the Black: ISBN 0192838717 (0-19-283871-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Red and the Black: ISBN 0393098214 (0-393-09821-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Red and the Black: ISBN 0812972074 (0-8129-7207-4)
Softcover, Modern Library - Red and the Black: ISBN 0871401487 (0-87140-148-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Red and the Black: ISBN 0192817159 (0-19-281715-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Red and the Black: ISBN 0460876430 (0-460-87643-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Red and the Black: ISBN 0394601572 (0-394-60157-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Red and the Black: ISBN 0679642846 (0-679-64284-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Red and the Black: ISBN 159308286X (1-59308-286-X)
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- Red and the Black: ISBN 0140447644 (0-14-044764-4)
The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Marie Henry Bey Stendhal, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 039460511X (0-394-60511-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830by StendhalISBN 0553213571 (0-553-21357-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830'Book summary:A Major New Translation
The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before. [via]More editions of The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830:
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The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Centuryby Donald M. Frame, Frame, Donald Murdoch (AFT), Jonathan Keates, Lloyd C. ParksISBN 0451530284 (0-451-53028-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:[via]In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired the imagination of Marie Henri Beyle, and under the pen name Stendhal, he set to writing what was to become one of the great psychological novels of all time. I will be famous around 1880, he predicted in one of his many diaries. I shall not go out of style, nor my glory go out of style.
Set in a provincial French town and in Paris, The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor who is both hero and villain. Cold, opportunistic, and uncompromising with othersincluding his influential mistresshe follows his lust for power and wealth. At the same time, he is tortured by his uncontrollable passions, and by the military and religious forcesthe enigmatic Red and Black that dominate French society in the years following the Revolution.
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Centuryby Stendhal, Lloyd C. Parks, Donald M. FrameISBN 0451517938 (0-451-51793-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:One of the great novels of the century, The Red and the Black is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, a clever and idealistic young opportunist who attempts to rise above his station through a combination of talent, deception, and hypocrisy. He uses his powers of seduction and charm to secure advancement, only to find himself betrayed by his own passions and outwitted by the larger political and social intrigues of post-Napoleonic France. His doomed quest for fortune and love is both heroic and satirical, reflecting the inner tensions and outer pretensions that result from desiring what is not ours. Stendhal's complex portrayal of his characters' thoughts and feelings was far ahead of his time, earning The Red and the Black recognition as the first modern psychological novel, with Julien as his most brilliant creation and one of the greatest characters in all of literature. [via]
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The Red and the Black: Mimetic Desire and the Myth of Celebrityby Jefferson HumphriesISBN 0805783520 (0-8057-8352-0)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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Regulusby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156014041 (0-15-601404-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regulus'Book summary:In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.[via]
Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.More editions of Regulus:
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Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156763001 (0-15-676300-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Prince'Book summary:The Latin edition of The Little Prince. Black-and-white illustrations by the Author. Translated by Auguste Haury.[via]More editions of Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Prince:
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The Return of Martin Guerreby Natalie DavisISBN 0674766911 (0-674-76691-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Martin Guerre'Book summary:The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.
Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode.
Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.
Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.
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Scarlet and Blackby C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, StendhalISBN 1857150384 (1-85715-038-4)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlet and Black'Book summary:In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval. [via]
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Scarlet and Blackby StendhalISBN 0140440305 (0-14-044030-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlet and Black'Book summary:It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the road to the surprising crime he commits (out of passion, principle or insanity), he turns into Stendhal's greatest and most completely human creation. [via]
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Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830by Stendhal, Jonathan Keates, C. K. Scott-MoncrieffISBN 0679405658 (0-679-40565-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830'Book summary:Through the stifling society in which wealth and rank triumph over merit moves the impoverished tutor, Julien Sorel. Handsome, sensitive and proud, his shy manner belies a driving ambition to escape the provincial town of Verrieres and forge a way into the drawing-rooms of the Parisian nobility. [via]
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby Emmuska OrczyISBN 1404332154 (1-4043-3215-4)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:[via]The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy, 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:In the year 1792, Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Blakeney are the darlings of British societyhe is known as one of the wealthiest men in England and a dimwit;she is French, a stunning former actress, and the cleverest woman in Europe and they find themselves at the center of a deadly political intrigue. The Reign of Terror controls France, and every day aristocrats in Paris fall victim to Madame la Guillotine. Only one man can rescue themthe Scarlet Pimpernela master of disguises who leaves a calling card bearing only a signature red flower. As the fascinating connection between the Blakeneys and this mysterious hero is revealed, they are forced to choose between love and loyalty in order to avoid the French agent Chauvelin, who relentlessly hunts the Scarlet Pimpernel.
First published in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel is the best-known novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, a prolific author of popular fiction and plays. The novel pioneered the tale of the masked avenger and paved the way for such future enigmatic swashbucklers as Zorro, Superman, and the Lone Ranger. Repeatedly adapted for stage and screenmost recently as a successful Broadway musicalThe Scarlet Pimpernel is a relevant and enormously entertaining tale of survival and pluck during times of widespread fear, hypocrisy, and corruption.Includes 8 pieces of original art.
Sarah Juliette Sasson is a lecturer in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and is the managing editor of the Romanic Review, a journal devoted to romance literatures. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia. She specializes in nineteenth-century literature and particularly in the novel. She has published essays on Honoré de Balzac, Heinrich Heine, and on social mobility in nineteenth-century literature. Currently, she is working on a book on Balzac.More editions of The Scarlet Pimpernel:
- The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 1576469239 (1-57646-923-9)
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Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 1595406115 (1-59540-611-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 1934169137 (1-934169-13-7)
Softcover, Norilana Books - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 1404332146 (1-4043-3214-6)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 1421809117 (1-4218-0911-7)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 1934169129 (1-934169-12-9)
Hardcover, Norilana Books - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0486421228 (0-486-42122-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0553214020 (0-553-21402-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0743487745 (0-7434-8774-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0755111184 (0-7551-1118-4)
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Softcover, Modern Library - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 080851038X (0-8085-1038-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0804900280 (0-8049-0028-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0816704589 (0-8167-0458-9)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Scarlet Pimpernel: ISBN 0816130779 (0-8161-3077-9)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventureby Frank Wildhorn, Nan KnightonISBN 0769258476 (0-7692-5847-6)
Softcover, Alfred Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventure'Book summary:The songs are: Believe Into the Fire Falcon in the Dive When I Look at You The Scarlet Pimpernel Where's the Girl? The Creation of Man The Riddle They Seek Him Here Only Love She Was There Storybook You Are My Home. [via]
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not the Frenchby Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie BarlowISBN 1402200455 (1-4022-0045-5)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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The Virgin Blue: Library Editionby Tracy ChevalierISBN 0452284449 (0-452-28444-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin Blue: Library Edition'Book summary:Tracy Chevalier has established an enormous and loyal fanbase with her much loved Girl With a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. This is a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996 and has been out of print for 4 years. The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. In vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town's wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village -- suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her association with the Virgin Mary. Falling pregnant, she is forced to marry into the ruling family: the Tourniers. Tormentor becomes husband, and a shocking fate awaits her. Plagued by the colour blue, Ella is haunted by parallels with the past, and by her recurring dream. Then one morning she wakes up to discover that her hair is turning inexplicably red... [via]
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El Azul de la Virgenby Tracy ChevalierISBN 8466313591 (84-663-1359-1)
Hardcover, Suma de Letras, S.L.
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El Principitoby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Bonifacio Del CarrilISBN 0156284502 (0-15-628450-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito'Book summary:The little prince discovers the secrets of friendship while traveling through the universe. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Bonifacio Del CarrilISBN 0156013924 (0-15-601392-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antonie De SaintISBN 9681500830 (968-15-0083-0)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:Uno de los clásicos de la literatura para niños, que en el criterio de muchos debe ser leído y comentado por un adulto, pero también un indiscutible libro para adultos. Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor trata sobre los valores humanos y enseñanzas para la vida. [via]
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El principito/ The Little Princeby Antoine De ExuperyISBN 9706660984 (970-666-098-4)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo
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Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 202030743X (2-02-030743-X)
Softcover, Editions du Seuil
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 0156013983 (0-15-601398-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 0152438181 (0-15-243818-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Le Petite Prince: ISBN 2070408507 (2-07-040850-7)
Softcover, Gallimard - Le Petit Prince: ISBN 2070515788 (2-07-051578-8)
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Der Kleine Prinzby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 015601386X (0-15-601386-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Der Kleine Prinz'Book summary:The German edition of The Little Prince. Black-and-white illustrations by the Author. Translated by Grete and Josef Leitgeb.[via]More editions of Der Kleine Prinz:
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Il Piccolo Principeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 8845247414 (88-452-4741-4)
Softcover, Rl Libri
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Piccolo Principe'Book summary:«Gli uomini hanno delle stelle che non sono le stesse. Per gli uni, quelli che viaggiano, le stelle sono delle guide. Per altri non sono che delle piccole luci. Per altri, che sono dei sapienti, sono dei problemi. Per il mio uomo daffari erano delloro. Ma tutte queste stelle stanno zitte. Tu, tu avrai delle stelle come nessuno haÉ» «Che cosa vuoi dire?» «Quando tu guarderai il cielo, la notte, visto che io abiterò in una di esse, visto che io riderò in una di esse, allora sarà per te come se tutte le stelle ridessero. Tu avrai, tu solo, delle stelle che sanno ridere!» [via]
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