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The Book of Lamentationsby Rosario CastellanosISBN 0141180331 (0-14-118033-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Captiveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753117 (0-375-75311-7)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Captive'Book summary:The Modern Librarys fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Captive:
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Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel Proust, Christina TumminelloISBN 0977716139 (0-9777161-3-9)
Softcover, Chatterley Pr Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [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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The Fallby Albert Camus, Justin O'BrienISBN 0679720227 (0-679-72022-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall'Book summary:Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a successful Parisian barrister, has come to recognize the deep-seated hypocrisy of his existence. His epigrammatic and, above all, discomforting monologue gradually saps, then undermines, the reader's own complacency. [via]
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The Guermantes Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752331 (0-375-75233-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Guermantes Way'Book summary:The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantess château near Combray. It also represents the narrators passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantess Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantess drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of The Guermantes Way:
The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Elizabeth McCracken, Catherine LiuISBN 034547242X (0-345-47242-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays that make the original text so compelling.
From Victor Hugo's flamboyant imagination came Quasimodo, the grotesque bell ringer; La Esmeralda, the sensuous gypsy dancer; and the haunted archdeacon Claude Frollo. Hugo set his epic tale in the Paris of 1482 under Louis XI and meticulously re-created the
day-to-day life of its highest and lowest inhabitants. Written at a time of perennial political upheaval in France, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the product of an emerging democratic sensibility and prefigures the teeming masterpiece Les Misé rables, which Hugo would write thirty years later.
He made the cathedral the centerpiece of the novel and called it Notre-Dame de Paris. (It received its popular English title at the time of its second translation in 1833.) Hugo wrote that his inspiration came from a carving of the word "fatality" in Greek that he had found in the cathedral. The inscription had been eradicated by the time the book was published, and Hugo feared that Notre-Dame's Gothic splendor might soon be lost to the contemporary fad for tearing down old buildings. Notre-Dame has survived as one of the great monuments of Paris, and Hugo's novel is a fitting celebration of it, a popular classic that is proving to be just as enduring.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was foundedin 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.
Jacket paintings: (front) detail from Notre Dame by Paul Lecomte, courtesy of David David Gallery/SuperStock; (spine) Victor Hugo, 1833, by Louis Boulanger of Giraudon/Art Resource, N.Y. [via]More editions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
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L' Amante Anglaiseby Marguerite Duras, Barbara BrayISBN 0394750225 (0-394-75022-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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L'Education Sentimentaleby Gustave Flaubert, Peter Michael WetherillISBN 273700117X (2-7370-0117-X)
Hardcover, Editions Garnier
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LA Chuteby Albert Camus, Germaine BreeISBN 0883324652 (0-88332-465-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A LA Recherche Du Temps Perduby Marcel Proust, Jean-Yves TadieISBN 2070111261 (2-07-011126-1)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A LA Recherche Du Temps Perdu'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [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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The Loverby Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0375700528 (0-375-70052-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lover'Book summary:An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.
Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.
Long unavailable in hardcover, this edition of The Lover includes a new introduction by Maxine Hong Kingston that looks back at Duras's world from an intriguing new perspective--that of a visitor to Vietnam today. [via]More editions of The Lover:
- The Lover: ISBN 0060970405 (0-06-097040-5)
Softcover, Perennial Library - The Lover: ISBN 0060975210 (0-06-097521-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Lover: ISBN 0375400850 (0-375-40085-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Lover: ISBN 0394545885 (0-394-54588-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Lover: ISBN 0375700528 (0-375-70052-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Lover: ISBN 0060970405 (0-06-097040-5)
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre DumasISBN 1419171518 (1-4191-7151-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man In The Iron Mask'Book summary:[via]The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas, 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:France in the 1660s is a boiling cauldron of plots and counter-plots as King Louis XIV struggles to extend his power and transform himself into the Sun King. Locked within the dreaded Bastille prison may be his enemies ultimate weapon: an anonymous prisoner forced to wear an iron mask so that none may see his faceand learn his astonishing secret. But soon the famed dArtagnan and the Three Musketeers are swept into the actionbut not on the same side! Will they actually be forced to fight each other?
As much a tale of mystery and political intrigue as a swashbuckling adventure, The Man in the Iron Mask is the final novel in Alexandre Dumass series of dArtagnan romances. The story follows the heroic young man from the country who, along with his three comrades, becomes a powerful influence on the course of French history. Yet what seems to be the most fantastic aspect of the story is based on fact. During Louis XIVs reign, a mysterious masked prisoner did dwell in the Bastille and his identity remains a question to this day.
Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. A member of the editorial boards of Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Les Cahiers Alexandre Dumas, she specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and in works by Dumas.
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- The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 1592247164 (1-59224-716-4)
Softcover, Wildside Pr - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 1593082339 (1-59308-233-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - The Man In The Iron Mask: ISBN 1582873011 (1-58287-301-1)
Hardcover, North Books - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 1582790671 (1-58279-067-1)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 1582790736 (1-58279-073-6)
Hardcover, Trident Press International - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 1596792477 (1-59679-247-7)
Hardcover, Spotlight - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0140439242 (0-14-043924-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0192838423 (0-19-283842-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0451530136 (0-451-53013-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0812564995 (0-8125-6499-5)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0603030211 (0-603-03021-1)
Hardcover, Dean & Son - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0613083008 (0-613-08300-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 084881293X (0-8488-1293-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0899681468 (0-89968-146-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0192827529 (0-19-282752-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Man in the Iron Mask : Tie In: ISBN 0451197003 (0-451-19700-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0451525647 (0-451-52564-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0804901503 (0-8049-0150-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 0895263483 (0-89526-348-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services - The Man In The Iron Mask: ISBN 1419171518 (1-4191-7151-8)
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- The Man in the Iron Mask: ISBN 1592247164 (1-59224-716-4)
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Notre-Dame De Parisby Victor Hugo, John Sturrock, John SurrockISBN 0140443533 (0-14-044353-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notre-Dame of Paris'Book summary:At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors. [via] -
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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Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Groveby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0394711823 (0-394-71182-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past : Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove'Book summary:Here are the first two volumes of Prousts monumental achievement, Swanns Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann's Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, exquisite memories, long since passedhis mothers good-night kiss, the water lilies on the Vivonne, his love for Swanns daughter Gilbertespring vividly into being. In Within a Budding Grovewhich won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, bringing the author instant famethe narrator turns from his childhood recollections and begins to explore the memories of his adolescence. As his affections for Gilberte grow dim, the narrator discovers a new object of attention in the bright-eyed Albertine. Their encounters unfold by the shores of Balbec. One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin.
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Rojo Y Negro / Red And Blackby StendhalISBN 8420637386 (84-206-3738-6)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rojo Y Negro / Red And Black'Book summary:Some consider this novel as a contrast between two ages, others say that it refers to luck in the roulette or even to the difference between military and religious life. The certain thing is that its protagonist fights against a society that does not understand him. [via]
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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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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:Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.[via]
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- Sentimental Education: ISBN 1582873720 (1-58287-372-0)
Hardcover, North Books - Sentimental Education: ISBN 0140447970 (0-14-044797-0)
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Sodom and Gomorrahby Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, D. J. Enright, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375753109 (0-375-75310-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sodom and Gomorrah'Book summary:Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guermantess orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. Flower and plant have no conscious will, Samuel Beckett wrote of Prousts representation of sexuality. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Prousts men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartins acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieffs translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Sodom and Gomorrah:
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 1414243677 (1-4142-4367-7)
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The initial part of the story focuses on the romantic life of a middle aged man named Swann. Proust has used poetic style of words to describe the nature and environment of France. His sentence structure is impressive and filled with searing, insightful, and humorous criticisms of French society.
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Swann's Wayby D.J. Enright, Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Terence KilmartinISBN 0375751548 (0-375-75154-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989). [via]More editions of Swann's Way:
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Swann's Way Of Remembrance Of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 1414243669 (1-4142-4366-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way Of Remembrance Of Things Past'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
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The Three Musketeers: Being the First of the D'artagnan Romances; and Twenty Years After, a Sequelby Alexandre DumasISBN 0895263491 (0-89526-349-1)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Within a Budding Groveby Marcel ProustISBN 0375752196 (0-375-75219-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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La Chuteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360105 (2-07-036010-5)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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Du Cote De Chez Swannby Marcel ProustISBN 2070379248 (2-07-037924-8)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Du Cote De Chez Swann'Book summary:L'expression roman fleuve devrait, sans connotation péjorative, désigner une Suvre qui prend le temps de charrier mille petites particules d'impression pour les infuser dans l'esprit d'un lecteur captivé. En somme, elle devrait avoir été créée pour désigner La Recherche proustienne, qui s'ouvre Du côté de chez Swann et s'achève une fois Le Temps retrouvé.
Dans le premier tome de ce superbe travail sur la mémoire et la métaphore, Suvre à part entière mais aussi amorce dramatique d'un joyau de la langue française, le narrateur s'aperçoit fortuitement, à l'occasion d'un goûter composé d'une tasse de thé et d'une madeleine désormais célèbre, que les sens ont la faculté de faire ressurgir le souvenir. Grâce aux senteurs d'un buisson d'aubépines, il prend confusément conscience de la distinction entre le souvenir et la réminiscence, pour ensuite s'exercer à manier les mots comme de petits papiers japonais qui, touchés par la grâce de l'eau, se déploient en corolle pour faire place à tout un univers. Tout comme se déploie un roman fleuve à partir de cette toute petite phrase légendaire : "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure". --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Education Sentimentaleby Gustave FlaubertISBN 2253010693 (2-253-01069-3)
Softcover, Le Livre de poche
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En Busca Del Tiempo Perdido 1 Poe El Camino De Swannby Marcel ProustISBN 8420633631 (84-206-3363-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Rojo Y Negro / Red And Blackby StendhalISBN 848969320X (84-89693-20-X)
Hardcover, Optima Editorial
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