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Antigoneby Jean AnouilhISBN 2710300257 (2-7103-0025-7)
Softcover, Table Ronde
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Artby Yasmina RezaISBN 2869434103 (2-86943-410-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Balzacby William Rose, Stefan Zweig, Richard Friedenthal, Dorothy RoseISBN 0304935506 (0-304-93550-6)
Hardcover, Cassell
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The Black Sheepby Honore De Balzac, Donald AdamsonISBN 0140442375 (0-14-044237-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Sheep'Book summary:Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon's army. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child, but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, The Black Sheep compellingly explores is a compelling exploration of the nature of deceit. [via]
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The Blood of Othersby Simone de Beauvoir, Roger Senhouse, Yvonne MoyseISBN 0394724119 (0-394-72411-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Book of the City of Ladiesby Christine, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0140446893 (0-14-044689-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the City of Ladies'Book summary:Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtuesReason, Rectitude and Justiceappear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. The Book of the City of Ladies provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.[via]More editions of The Book of the City of Ladies:
Bouvard and Pecuchetby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0140443207 (0-14-044320-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Britannicus ; Phaedra ; Athaliahby C. H. Sisson, Jean RacineISBN 0192510371 (0-19-251037-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Britannicus ; Phaedra ; Athaliahby Jean RacineISBN 0192817582 (0-19-281758-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britannicus ; Phaedra ; Athaliah'Book summary:Jean Racine remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. This volume brings together three of his most important plays in an entirely new translation. C.H. Sisson captures the clarity, passion, and rhythm of Racine's language as he portrays characters wrestling with ambition, treachery, religion, and love. [via]
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Caligula & Three Other Playsby Albert CamusISBN 0394702077 (0-394-70207-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Caligula and Three Other Playsby Albert CamusISBN 039440520X (0-394-40520-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Candide, Zadig, and Other Storiesby Voltaire, Donald Murdoch Frame, John IversonISBN 0451528093 (0-451-52809-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Cid Cinna: The Theatrical Illusionby John Cairncross, Pierre CorneilleISBN 0140443126 (0-14-044312-6)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The City of Ladiesby Christine De Pizan, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0143037544 (0-14-303754-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyesby Chretien, David StainesISBN 0253354404 (0-253-35440-4)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyesby David StainesISBN 0253207878 (0-253-20787-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyes'Book summary:"[A]n eminently readable text, done clearly and accurately... it gives as good an idea as a translation can of the complexity and subtlety of Chrétiens originals.... The text is provided by a translator who understands the spirit as well as the letter of the original and renders it with style.... [T]his translation should attract a wide audience of students and Arthurian enthusiasts." Speculum
"[A] significant contribution to the field of medieval studies [and] a pleasure to read." Library Journal
"These are, above all, stories of courtly love and of knights tested in their devotion to chivalric ideals (with passion and duty often at odds); but they are also thrilling wonder stories of giants, wild men, tame lions, razor-sharp bridges and visits to the Other World." Washington Post Book World
"This tastefully produced book will be the standard general translation for many years to come." Choice
This new translation brings to life for a new generation of readers the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Gawain, Perceval, Yvain, and the other "knights and ladies" of Chrétien de Troyes famous romances.
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Corydonby Andre GideISBN 0374517770 (0-374-51777-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Corydon'Book summary:Considered by Gide to be the most important of his books, this slim, exquisitely crafted volume consists of four dialogues on the subject of homosexuality and its place in society. Published anonymously in bits and pieces between 1911 and 1920, "Corydon" first appeared in a signed, commercial edition in France in 1924 and in the United States in 1950, the year before Gide's death. This present edition features the impeccable translation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard. In spirited dialogue with his bigoted, boorish interviewer, "Corydon" marshals evidence from naturalists, historians, poets, and philosophers to support his contention that homosexuality pervaded the most culturally and artistically advanced civilizations, from Greece in the age of Pericles to Renaissance Italy and England in the age of Shakespeare. Although obscured by later critics, literature and art from Homer to Titian proclaim the true nature of relationships between such lovers as Achilles and Patrocles - not to mention Virgil's mythical 'Corydon' and his shepherd, Alexis. The evidence, "Corydon" suggests, points to heterosexuality as a socially constructed union, while the more fundamental, natural relation is the homosexual one. 'My friends insist that this little book is of the kind which will do me the greatest harm', Gide wrote of his "Corydon". In these pages, contemporary readers will find a prescient and courageous treatment of a topic that has scarcely become less controversial. [via]
Corydonby Richard Howard, Andre GideISBN 0252070062 (0-252-07006-2)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Cruel Talesby Villiers De L'Isle-Adam, Robert BaldickISBN 0192816969 (0-19-281696-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dictionary of Received Ideasby Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey WallISBN 0140389040 (0-14-038904-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Earthby Emile Zola, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0140443878 (0-14-044387-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Eight Plays by Moliereby MoliereISBN 0394309294 (0-394-30929-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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El Contrato Social / the Social Agreementby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 8484034518 (84-8403-451-8)
Softcover, Edimat Libros
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The Erl-Kingby Michel TournierISBN 0002212129 (0-00-221212-9)
Hardcover, Collins
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Fant(masby Marcel Allain, Robin Walz, cranstoun metcalfeISBN 0486449718 (0-486-44971-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fant(mas'Book summary:A noblewoman is hacked to death, a Russian princess is boldly robbed, a lord's lifeless body is found in a trunk. It is the work of Fantômas, a master of disguise whose diabolical crimes paralyze Parisians with terror. The first volume in a series of wildly popular French thrillers, Fantômas stands as the original pulp fiction.[via]More editions of Fant(mas:
Fantomas: The Corpse Who Killsby Pierre Souvestre, John AshberyISBN 0143104845 (0-14-310484-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fantomas: The Legendary French Thrillerby Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, John AshberyISBN 0345344219 (0-345-34421-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantomas: The Legendary French Thriller'Book summary:"In the mode reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and his ineradicable nemesis, the virtually immortal Professor Moriarty, Inspector Juve dedicates himself to the relentless pursuit of that evil genius Fantomas. He is, as they say in petrified Paris, "Nothing. . . Everything. . . Nobody. . . Somebody." And what does he do? He "spreads terror," diabolically, craftily beyond all imagining: slashes throats of kindly old ladies; stuffs strangled British socialites into trunks; boldly robs Russian princesses in their hotel rooms; pushes witnesses off speeding trains to their deaths. Can Juve prevail against that hellish power?" --Publishers Weekly [via]
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The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux ont soif)by Anatole France, Frederick H. DaviesISBN 0140443525 (0-14-044352-5)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux ont soif)'Book summary:Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Blood is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin's ideals lead him to the most monstrous mass murder of his countrymen, and the links between Gamelin and his family, his mistress and the humanist Brotteaux are catastrophically severed. The Gods Will Have Blood recreates the violence and devastation of the Terror with breathtaking power, and weaves into it a tale which grips, convinces and profoundly moves. The perfection of Anatole France's prose style, with its myriad subtle ironies, is here translated by Frederick Davies with admirable skill and sensitivity. That The Gods Will Have Blood is Anatole France's masterpiece is beyond doubt. It is also one of the most brilliantly polished novels in French literature.[via]More editions of The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux ont soif):
The Heptameronby Marguerite De Navarre, Paul A. ChiltonISBN 014044355X (0-14-044355-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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If It Die: An Autobiographyby Andre GideISBN 0375726063 (0-375-72606-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Imaginary Invalidby Moliere, Henri Van LaunISBN 0486437892 (0-486-43789-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Imaginary Invalid'Book summary:Farce / Characters: 8 males, 4 females
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The famous hypochondriac in this classic farce not only complains of a million imaginary ills, but also of his astronomical medical bills. If he marries his daughter to a doctor, he reasons, he will have free medical care. He chooses a double-Latin talking numbskull without consulting the daughter who is already smitten by another. The inventive maid exposes the doctyor and his father as charlatans and demonstrates to the master that his second wife loves his money, not him. Thus are truth and love triumphant and all troubles, real and imaginary, relieved by laughter. [via]
The Knight of Maison-Rouge : A Novel of Marie Antoinetteby Alexandre Dumas, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Julie RoseISBN 0679642986 (0-679-64298-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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LA Cantatrice Chauveby Eugene Ionesco, MarchISBN 0030133963 (0-03-013396-3)
Softcover, Heinle & Heinle Pub
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LA Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alpsby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0271006021 (0-271-00602-1)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Nouvelle Heloise: Julie, or the New Eloise Letters of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps'Book summary:This landmark of the romantic movement not only greatly influenced the taste and morality of the eighteenth-century reading public but was also one of the most seminal and widely read literary works of its day. Seventy-two editions of the novel in French appeared between 1761 and 1800, and though Voltaire called its success one of the infamies of the century. It won for Rousseau a place beside the author of Candide as a director of European thought. The plot of the novel is one familiar to all literature; that of a fallen and regenerated woman. The first three parts are devoted to the celebration of the passionate, mutual love of Saint-Preux and Julie; the last three praise Julie's return to virtue as a faithful wife and dedicated mother. Professor McDowell's translation is precise but natural and conveys to the reader the distinctive flavor of Rousseau's style. [via]
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Lancelot: The Knight of the Cartby Chretien, Burton RaffelISBN 0300071213 (0-300-07121-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Les Crimes De L'amour: Nouvelles Heroiques Et Tragiques ; Precedees D'une Idee Sur Les Romansby Michel Delon, Sade, Eric Le GrandicISBN 2909031640 (2-909031-64-0)
Hardcover, Zulma
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Les/Jeux Sont Faitsby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0135306752 (0-13-530675-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Letters from My Windmillby Alphonse DaudetISBN 0140443347 (0-14-044334-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Louise De LA Valliereby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192834657 (0-19-283465-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louise De LA Valliere'Book summary:Louise de la Vallière is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Set during the reign of Louis XIV and filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, the novel brings the aging Musketeers and d'Artagnan out of retirement to face an impending crisis within the royal court of France. Tbis new edition of the classic English translation is richly annotated and places Dumas's invigorating tale in its historical and cultural context. [via]
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Marcel Proust: A Lifeby Jean-Yves Tadie, Euan CameronISBN 0141002034 (0-14-100203-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughterby De Beauvoir, James KirkupISBN 0060825197 (0-06-082519-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Miser and Other Plays : A New Selectionby Jean-Baptiste Moliere, David Coward, John WoodISBN 0140447288 (0-14-044728-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Miser and Other Plays : A New Selection'Book summary:[via]This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors became The School for Wives Criticized. Even more alarming to critics was his version of Don Juan. In The Hypochondriac, he produced an outrageous expose of medicine.
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The Miser and Other Playsby MoliereISBN 0140440364 (0-14-044036-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Momoby Emile AjarISBN 0385125038 (0-385-12503-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Mount Analogue a Novel of Symbolically Authentic Nby R. DaumalISBN 0140039473 (0-14-003947-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Necklace and Other Short Storiesby Guy De MaupassantISBN 0486270645 (0-486-27064-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Necklace and Other Talesby Guy De Maupassant, Joachim Neugroschel, Adam GopnikISBN 0375757171 (0-375-75717-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Necklace and Other Tales'Book summary:Ranging from poignant scrutiny of social pretension, to wicked tales of lust and love, to harrowing stories of terror and madness, the genius of Guy de Maupassant, Frances greatest short-story writer, is on full display in this enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. The stories Neugroschel has gathered vividly reveal Maupassants remarkable range, his keen eye, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages.
Adam Gopniks Introduction incisively explores the essence of Maupassants unique style and his tremendous, if unjustly unacknowledged, influence (on everything from the American short story to contemporary cinema), bearing eloquent testimony to Maupassants continuing and vital appeal. [via]More editions of The Necklace and Other Tales:
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The Ogreby Michel Tournier, Barbara BrayISBN 0394724070 (0-394-72407-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Oriental Talesby Marguerite Yourcenar, Alberto ManguelISBN 0374519978 (0-374-51997-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Papillonby Henri Charriere, Jean-Pierre Castelnau, June P. WilsonISBN 0061120669 (0-06-112066-9)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Papillon'Book summary:Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.
Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.
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Petits Poemes En Prose: Spleen De Parisby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0685114899 (0-685-11489-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Philosophical Dictionaryby Voltaire, Theodore BestermanISBN 014044257X (0-14-044257-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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The Ravishing of Lol Steinby Marguerite Duras, Richard SeaverISBN 0394743040 (0-394-74304-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Remembrance of Things Pastby Marcel ProustISBN 039450643X (0-394-50643-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Remembrance of Things Past'Book summary:Perfect Condition! Copyright 1981 by Random House. Translation by Andreas Mayor. Clean and free from markings. Very light shelf wear. All 3 books in excellent condition. Includes all dust jackets and 3-volume case. Expedited shipping available. Guaranteed customer satisfaction. [via]
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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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Remembrance of Things Past/Captive, the Fugitive, Time Regainedby Marcel ProustISBN 039471184X (0-394-71184-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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RhinocErosby Eugene IonescoISBN 0030137314 (0-03-013731-4)
Softcover, Harcourt School
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› Find signed collectible books: 'RhinocEros'Book summary:"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stéréotypé devient aberrant. C'est ce que Ionesco démontre dans Rhinocéros, pièce qui a tout d'abord vu le jour sous la forme d'une nouvelle. Partisan d'un théâtre total, il porte l'absurde à son paroxysme en l'incarnant matériellement.
Allégorie des idéologies de masse, le rhinocéros, cruel et dévastateur, ne se déplace qu'en groupe et gagne du terrain à une vitesse vertigineuse. Seul et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Bérenger résiste à la mutation. Il résiste pour notre plus grande délectation, car sa lutte désespérée donne lieu à des caricatures savoureuses, à des variations de tons et de genres audacieuses et anticonformistes. La sclérose intellectuelle, l'incommunicabilité et la perversion du langage engendrent des situations tellement tragiques qu'elles en deviennent comiques, tellement grotesques qu'elles ne peuvent être que dramatiques.
On a dit du théâtre de Ionesco qu'il était engagé ; il l'est, en faveur de l'individu, menacé de marginalisation quand, malgré ses faiblesses, il parvient à résister aux tentations avilissantes qu'il a lui-même fait naître. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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The Romance of Tristan: And the Tale of Tristan's Madnessby Beroul, Alan S. FedrickISBN 0140442308 (0-14-044230-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Deadby Tom StoppardISBN 0571152465 (0-571-15246-5)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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A Season in Hellby Arthur Rimbaud, Oliver BernardISBN 0146001656 (0-14-600165-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Season in Hell'Book summary:One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. [via]
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Season in Hell: The Illuminationsby Jean Nicolas Arthur RimbaudISBN 0460879847 (0-460-87984-7)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Season in Hell: The Illuminations'Book summary:Rimbaud's vagrant and dissolute life in Paris and England with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, which ended with a shooting drama in Brussels, is the stuff of legend and led to Rimbaud's being mythologized and idolized, particularly by the French surrealists. His poetry - visionary, unnerving, idiosyncratic, disorientating - has had a profound influence on modern writing. A Season in Hell (1873) reviews his visionary claims for poetry - his ideal of the poet as seer, through the systematic disordering of the senses, of poetry as part of life and of action. His is an agonized, divided voice, pulled in all directions by instabilities of emotion and belief. Illuminations (pub. 1886), an extended prose poem, is both a series of visual images - landscapes, cityscapes, clowns, circuses, interiors - and of mood pictures, with no one voice or identity. Fragmented, hallucinatory, decentred, the poet, in a series of shifting roles, explores pluralistic notions of the self. [via]
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Selected Poemsby Charles Baudelaire, Carol ClarkISBN 0140446249 (0-14-044624-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
Selected Fablesby Jean De La FontaineISBN 0140455248 (0-14-045524-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Fables'Book summary:With their unique blend of wit and poetic mastery, the verse interpretations of Aesops Fables by 17th-century author Jean de La Fontaine have enchanted readers of all ages for over three centuries. 70 popular and oft-quoted fables appear here, including "The Grasshopper and the Ant," "The Town Rat and the Country Rat," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and dozens more. A classic of French literature; brilliantly translated by Walter Thornbury into English verse.[via]
Selected Fablesby Maya Slater, Christopher Wood, Jean De LA FontaineISBN 0192824406 (0-19-282440-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Selected Fables = Fables Choisies: A Dual-Language Bookby Jean De LA Fontaine, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486295745 (0-486-29574-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Selected Lettersby Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey WallISBN 0140446079 (0-14-044607-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Selected Poems Baudelaireby Charles Pierre BaudelaireISBN 0140421882 (0-14-042188-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems Baudelaire'Book summary:The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as 'Le Beau Navire', flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as 'La Chambre Double' deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal, show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century. [via]
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Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evilby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0486284506 (0-486-28450-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Tartuffe And Other Playsby Jean Baptiste Moliere, Virginia Scott, Donald Murdoch FrameISBN 0451530330 (0-451-53033-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Ubu Roiby Alfred Jarry, G. Legman, Beverly KeithISBN 0486426874 (0-486-42687-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Voltaire Candide and Zadigby Francoise M.De VoltaireISBN 0671491016 (0-671-49101-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Cartas filosoficas/ Philosophical Lettersby VoltaireISBN 8420603090 (84-206-0309-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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El Malentendido / the Misunderstood - Caligulaby Albert CamusISBN 9500302756 (950-03-0275-6)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Opus Nigrumby Marguerite YourcenarISBN 8466301836 (84-663-0183-6)
Hardcover, Suma de Letras, S.L.
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Poesias Completas / Complete Poetryby Arthur RimbaudISBN 8437614651 (84-376-1465-1)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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La Posibilidad De Una Isla/the Possibility of an Islandby Michel HouellebecqISBN 970770392X (970-770-392-X)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Posibilidad De Una Isla/the Possibility of an Island'Book summary:Upended by a midlife crisis, Daniel enters a cult that aims to secure eternal happiness through cloning. Through biting monologues, he recounts the last years of his life -his encounters with Isabelle and Esther, and his connection to a cult whose members maintain that humanity is capable of reaching immorality. Houellebecq is back! He touches on philosophical, social and political topics, cloning and sex, youth and old age, violence and desire. It is impossible to leave this novel with an indifferent feeling. Description in Spanish: Abandona cualquier posibilidad de salir indiferente de la lectura de esta novela. Michel Houellebecq ha vuelto. La posibilidad de una isla es la historia de Daniel, famoso por sus monólogos cáusticos en los que mezcla la provocación con una visión fría y cruel de la existencia. El protagonista narra los últimos años de su vida, sus relaciones sexuales y amorosas con Isabelle y con Esther, y su contacto con una secta cuyos miembros aseguran que el ser humano alcanzará la inmortalidad. [via]
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El Teatro Y Su Doble/the Theater And It's Doubleby Antonin ArtaudISBN 9685960216 (968-5960-21-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Crimes Celebresby Alexandre Dumas, Robert ScrickISBN 2859408525 (2-85940-852-5)
Hardcover, Phebus
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Les Fleurs Bleuesby Raymond QueneauISBN 0423828606 (0-423-82860-6)
Hardcover, Methuen
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Les Mains Sale, Jean Paul Sartreby Walter D. Redfe, W. D. RedfernISBN 0415039355 (0-415-03935-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Le Voyageur Sans Bagageby Jean AnouilhISBN 0030885299 (0-03-088529-9)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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