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Arden Shakespeare Hamlet
by Harold Jenkins, Neil Taylor

ISBN 1904271324 (1-904271-32-4)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare

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The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the playÂ's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text. "The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play." - Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Â"Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.Â" - Stanley Wells, The Observer "(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come" - The British Theatre Guide "Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a survey of different critical approaches to the play." - The Use of English, The English Association [via]
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev
by Willard R. Trask, Victor Serge, Susan Sontag

ISBN 1590170644 (1-59017-064-4)
Softcover, New York Review of Books

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The Case of Comrade Tulayev One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence--at least of the crime of which they stand accused. But "The Case of Comrade Tulayev," unques... Full description [via]
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The Confession of a Child of the Century
by Alfred de Musset

ISBN 158827280X (1-58827-280-X)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Prisoners of war; Defectors; China; Political scientists; Children of clergy; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / General; Fiction / Psychological; [via]
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Corinne Ou I. Italie
by De Stael

ISBN 207037632X (2-07-037632-X)
Hardcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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Critique of Dialectical Reason
by Jean-Paul Sartre, Alan Sheridan-Smith, Fredric Jameson

ISBN 1859844855 (1-85984-485-5)
Softcover, Verso Books

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Volume One of Sartre's intellectual masterpiece, introduced by Fredric Jameson.
At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished with a major original introduction by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the basic categories for the renovated theory of history that he believed was necessary for post-war Marxism.

Sartre's formal aim was to establish the dialectical intelligibility of history itself, as what he called 'a totalisation without a totaliser'. But, at the same time, his substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth: their ascent, stabilisation, petrification and decline, in a world still overwhelmingly dominated by scarcity. [via]
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Dernier Jour D'UN Condamme/Bug-Jargal
by Victor Hugo

ISBN 2070369196 (2-07-036919-6)
Softcover, French & European Pubns

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439pages. poche. Broché. [via]
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Discours Sur L'Origine Et Les Fondements De L'Inegalite Parmi Les Hommes
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN 2070325415 (2-07-032541-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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Qu'y a-t-il de naturel en l'homme ? Jean-Jacques Rousseau, dans son Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, publié en 1755, imagine l'humanité dans sa condition primitive, à une époque où elle ne vivait encore que d'après sa constitution première. Le tableau qu'il dresse de cet état de nature originel fait ressortir l'existence de différences physiques mais d'aucune distribution inégale de droits entre les hommes. C'est l'institution sociale et l'invention du droit qui fera naître les inégalités. Rousseau nous raconte l'enchaînement des circonstances qui dut conduire le genre humain à s'éloigner de son heureuse condition originelle et à devoir recourir à l'autorité d'un État pour sauvegarder la vie et la liberté de chacun.
Au cours de l'histoire, l'homme se socialise, apprend à parler, à aimer ; il s'humanise en s'éloignant de sa première condition, simple, heureuse mais quasi animale. Une manière pour Rousseau de formuler la contradiction de la condition humaine : historique, insatisfaite, mais aussi hantée par le rêve de la nature et du bonheur.
Un texte d'une grande éloquence qui ne peut que toucher son lecteur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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Earthlight
by Andre Breton

ISBN 1931243409 (1-931243-40-9)
Softcover, Green Integer

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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury, Jacques Chambon, Henri Robillot

ISBN 2070415732 (2-07-041573-2)
Softcover, Gallimard

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Fahrenheit 451 is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.

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Femmes
by Philippe Sollers

ISBN 2070376206 (2-07-037620-6)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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For a Night of Love
by Emile Zola, A.N. Wilson

ISBN 1843910101 (1-84391-010-1)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr

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The Fortune of the Rougons
by Emile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Uday K. Dhar

ISBN 1595690107 (1-59569-010-7)
Softcover, Mondial

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The idyll of Miette and Silvère is a very touching one, and quite in accord with the conditions of life prevailing in Provence at the period Emile Zola selects for his narrative. Miette is a frank child of nature; Silvère, her lover, in certain respects foreshadows, a quarter of a century in advance, the Abbé Pierre Fromont of "Lourdes," "Rome," and "Paris." "The Fortune of the Rougons" is the initial volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. Though it was by no means M. Zola's first essay in fiction, it was undoubtedly his first great bid for genuine literary fame, and the foundation of what must necessarily be regarded as his life-work. The idea of writing the "natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire," extending to a score of volumes, was doubtless suggested to M. Zola by Balzac's immortal "Comédie Humaine." He was twenty-eight years of age when this idea first occurred to him; he was fifty-three when he at last sent the manuscript of his concluding volume, "Dr. Pascal," to the press. He had spent five-and-twenty years in working out his scheme, persevering with it doggedly and stubbornly, whatever rebuffs he might encounter, whatever jeers and whatever insults might be directed against him by the ignorant, the prejudiced, and the hypocritical. Truth was on the march and nothing could stay it; even as, at the present hour, its march, if slow, none the less continues athwart another and a different crisis of the illustrious novelist's career. [via]
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French Dictionary Phrasebook
by Lexus Firm Staff

ISBN 1858285763 (1-85828-576-3)
Softcover, Rough Guides, Limited

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Rough Guides re-launches its popular phrasebook series and adds European and Dutch to its mix of 22 languages. Now with stylish new covers and user-friendly, two-color printing throughout, these books will jump off the shelves. Arranged dictionary-style, each Rough Guide Phrasebook includes clear grammar and pronunciation sections, etiquette and cultural tips, and a two-way menu reader, making these the most useful on-the-go language books anywhere. [via]
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, John Crowther

ISBN 1586638440 (1-58663-844-0)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group

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Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich in contrasts and conflicts. Its violence alternates with introspection, its melancholy with humour, and its subtlety with spectacle. The Prince, Hamlet himself, is depicted as a complex, divided, introspective character. His reflections on death, morality and the very status of human beings make him 'the first modern man'. [via]
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Hamlet
by Harold Jenkins

ISBN 1903436672 (1-903436-67-2)
Softcover, Cengage Learning

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The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of Hamlet provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. [via]
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Histoire De LA Litterature Francaise
by Pierre Brunel

ISBN 2040101837 (2-04-010183-7)
Hardcover, Bordas

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Histoire De LA Litterature Francaise: Du Moyen Age Au XVIII Siecle
by Pierre Brunel

ISBN 2040166548 (2-04-016654-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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Histoire De LA Litterature Francaise: XIX Et Xxe Siecle
by Pierre Brunel

ISBN 2040166564 (2-04-016656-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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Human Rites
by Natalie Abrahami, Amélie Nothomb

ISBN 1840025395 (1-84002-539-5)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited

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Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalizing ménage à trois between a professor, his assistant, and a student, only the books bear witness to their plight.
Amélie Nothomb is the award-winning author of 13 novels, including Hygiène de lassassin; Stupeur et tremblements, winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie Français; and Robert des noms propres, which has sold over 250,000 copies in France. Human Rites is her first play.
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I Spit on Your Graves
by Boris Vian

ISBN 1841951048 (1-84195-104-8)
Hardcover, Canongate Crime

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Lee Anderson arrives in Buckton, and sets about integrating himself into the community. Lee is black, but passes for white, and is seeking revenge for the lynching of his brother. He finds two rich sisters, and decides to seduce, humiliate and then kill them. [via]
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Immortalite
by Milan Kundera

ISBN 2070718395 (2-07-071839-5)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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420pages. in8. Broché. Dans ce nouveau roman, l'auteur de Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli analyse différents thèmes: le visage, l'immortalité, la lutte, l'amour, le hasard, le cadran et la célébration. [via]
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In the Merde for Love
by Stephen Clarke

ISBN 1596911905 (1-59691-190-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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LA Fortune Des Rougon
by Emile Zola

ISBN 2070372901 (2-07-037290-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier

ISBN 1587246147 (1-58724-614-7)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power, and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. --Regina Marler [via]
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man
by Victor Hugo, Geoff Woollen, Libby Purves

ISBN 1843910071 (1-84391-007-1)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr

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Last Nights of Paris
by William Carlos Williams, Philippe Soupault

ISBN 1878972057 (1-878972-05-7)
Softcover, Exact Change

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Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of Paris is related to Surrealist novels such as Nadja and Paris Peasant, but also to the American expatriate novels of its day such as Day of the Locust. The story concerns the narrator's obsession with a woman who leads him into an underworld that promises to reveal the secrets of the city itself... and in Williams' wonderfully direct translation it reads like a lost Great American Novel. A vivid portrait of the city that entranced both its native writers and the Americans who traveled to it in the 20s, Last Nights of Paris is a rare collaboration between the literary circles at the root of both French and American Modernism. [via]
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Le Coq De Bruygre
by Tournier

ISBN 2070372294 (2-07-037229-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Les Precieuses Riducules
by Moliere

ISBN 2038713146 (2-03-871314-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Les Travailleurs De LA Mer
by Victor Hugo

ISBN 2070371972 (2-07-037197-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 185326136X (1-85326-136-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows. [via]
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
by Georges Simenon, Marc Romano, D. Thin, Luc Sante

ISBN 1590171497 (1-59017-149-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Kees Popinga is a solid Dutch burgher whose idea of a night on the town is a game of chess at his club. Or so it has always appeared. But one night this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had looked on impassively as the trains to the outside world swept by; now he catches the first train he can to Amsterdam. Not long after that, he commits murder.

Kees Popinga is tired of being Kees Popinga. He's going to turn over a new leafthough there will be hell to pay. [via]
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Maria Chapdelaine
by Michael Gnarowski, W. H. Blake

ISBN 1894908031 (1-894908-03-1)
Softcover, Dundurn Pr Ltd

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Maximes Et Reflections Diverses
by Francois LA Rochefoucauld

ISBN 2070367282 (2-07-036728-2)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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Memoirs of an Egotist
by Stendahl

ISBN 1843910403 (1-84391-040-3)
Softcover, Hesperus Pr

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Michael Strogoff
by Jules Verne

ISBN 1594624321 (1-59462-432-1)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc

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More Pricks Than Kicks
by Samuel Beckett

ISBN 1852900156 (1-85290-015-6)
Hardcover, Isis Large Print Books

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Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Becketts antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah.

Belacqua is a student, a philanderer, and a failure, and Beckett portrays the various aspects of his troubled existence: he studies Dante, attempts an ill-fated courtship, witnesses grotesque incidents in the streets of Dublin, attends vapid parties, endures his marriage, and meets his accidental death. These early stories point to the qualities of precision, restraint, satire, and poetry found in Becketts mature works, and reveal the beginning stages of Becketts underlying theme of bewilderment in the face of suffering.
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Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch
by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke

ISBN 1597223964 (1-59722-396-4)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power of reading to sustain and inspire the spirit.

After years of studying Freud in Paris, Mr. Muo returns home to introduce the blessings of psychoanalysis to twenty-first-century China. But it is his hidden purposeto liberate his university sweetheart, now a political prisonerthat leads him to the sadistic local magistrate, Judge Di. The price of the Communist bureaucrats clemency? A virgin maiden. And so our middle-aged hero Muo, a Westernized romantic and sexual innocent himself, sets off on his bicycle in search of a suitable girl.

Muos quest will take him from a Chengdu mortuary to a rural panda habitat, from an insane asylum to the haunts of the marauding Lolo people. Along the way, he will lose a tooth, his virginity, and his once unshakable faith in psychoanalytic insight. But his quixotic idealism will not waver, even as he comes to see that the chivalrous heart may have room for more than one true love.

Dai Sijies exuberant, touchingand most unlikelyromance is a triumph of unbridled imagination, a celebration of the yearning spirit. [via]
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The Murdered House
by Pierre Magnan

ISBN 1860466494 (1-86046-649-4)
Hardcover, Random House

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The murdered house in the title of Pierre Magnan's intense novel--set in rural Provence in 1920--is at once historical, actual, and metaphorical. Scarred by war, France is a house without sons; only women, children, and old men toil in Magnan's fields. When Séraphin Monge returns to his native village after fighting in the trenches, he learns at last the truth of his origins: his family was brutally slaughtered in a remote inn in 1896; Séraphin, then a 3-week-old baby, was the only survivor. Haunted by visions of his dead mother, he is determined to avenge her murder, but he must first try to free himself from his past. He decides to destroy, stick by stick and stone by stone, the ancient house in which his entire family died. But, as Magnan observes tellingly, "Burning furniture that has a history is no easy matter."
In destroying the house, Séraphin discovers evidence that seems to hint at the murderers' identity; yet The Murdered House is not a whodunit, even though a mysterious figure seems to be shadowing Séraphin and there are unexplained deaths, gold coins, and legal documents.
The discovery of the murderers is not the aim of the book (indeed, when Magnan strays into the realm of traditional mystery, it seems half-hearted at best). Instead, Magnan is intent on sketching the worlds, both internal and external, of individuals and places haunted by the horrors of World War I. His rendering of daily Provençal life hints at the tenacity with which a generation clings to the traditions of its forebears; he writes of the annual olive-pressing:

They would have drunk it as it came out of the shallow baskets, if they had been allowed. They caught it in their measuring vessels and let it flow into their wicker-covered bottles. As soon as the demijohns were full, two people rushed them to the barrows and carts. The child formed a rear guard defending their retreat; the grandfather stayed with the bottles yet to be filled, watching with an eagle eye, as though the miller were a thief, as though all the neighbours and friends who were waiting their turn were capable of pilfering a demijohn or two.
Though the translator has done a solid job of rendering Magnan's descriptive prose--almost poetry-like in its intensity and ellipsis--the dialogue is at times dissonant, since Magnan relies on the rhythms and vocabulary of the old Provençal dialect, whose subtleties are almost impossible to evoke in English without sounding stilted. Not until the last few pages does the book itself genuinely falter; Magnan's last-minute revelation of a first-person narrator wants to be a clever post-modern trick, but it falls emphatically flat. It's easy to forgive a few pages' transgression, though, when one has already digested a challenging, evocative novel. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Reporter
by Gaston Leroux, Terry Hale

ISBN 1873982380 (1-873982-38-0)
Softcover, Dedalus Limited

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(Rerecording)
This novel - the classic French detective story - was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, once a reporter who covered the famous trials of his time. (He also wrote THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.) Match your wits with his rival detectives - one amateur, one professional - as they try to crack the mystery. Mademoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone. The only other exit, a window - barred. How had the assailant escaped? [via]
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Notebook of a Return to My Native Land: Cahier D'un Retour Au Pays Natal
by Aime Cesaire, Mireille Rosello, Annie Pritchard

ISBN 1852241845 (1-85224-184-5)
Hardcover, Bloodaxe Books

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French-English bilingual edition. Andre Breton called Cesaire's Cahier 'nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time'. It is a seminal text in Surrealist, French and Black literatures - published in full in English for the first time in Bloodaxe's bilingual Contemporary French Poets series. Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) was born in in Basse-Pointe, a village on the north coast of Martinique, a former French colony in the Caribbean (now an overseas departement of France). His book Discourse on Colonialism (1950) is a classic of French political literature. Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1956) is the foundation stone of francophone Black literature: it is here that the word Negritude appeared for the first time. Negritude has come to mean the cultural, philosophical and political movement co-founded in Paris in the 1930s by three Black students from French colonies: the poets Leon-Gontran Damas from French Guiana; Leopold Senghor, later President of Senegal; and Aime Cesaire, who became a deputy in the French National Assembly for the Revolutionary Party of Martinique and was repeatedly elected Mayor of Fort-de-France. As a poet, Cesaire believed in the revolutionary power of language, and in the Notebook he combined high literary French with Martinican colloquialisms, and archaic turns of phrase with dazzling new coinages. The result is a challenging and deeply moving poem on the theme of the future of the negro race which presents and enacts the poignant search for a Martinican identity. The Notebook opposes the ideology of colonialism by inventing a language that refuses assimilation to a dominant cultural norm, a language that teaches resistance and liberation. [via]
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Oeuvres Completes
by Baudelaire

ISBN 2020007258 (2-02-000725-8)
Hardcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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- Club de l'honnête homme, Paris _1966, 14x21cm, relié, 3 volumes reliés. - Nouvelle édition. §Reliures de l'éditeur en pleine basane noire, dos lisses. §Illustrations. §Agréable ensemble. [via]
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On the Origin of Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN 1596055480 (1-59605-548-0)
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If we look at human society with a calm and disinterested eye, it seems, at first, to show us only the violence of the powerful and the oppression of the weak. The mind is shocked at the cruelty of the one, or is induced to lament the blindness of the other... -from the Preface Are such concepts of race, class, and wealth inherent to the human condition, or are they results of the development of "civilization"? One of the most important thinkers of the Enlightenment, which laid the groundwork for the modern mind-set, argues that it is only with the creation of agriculture and urban society that inequalities formed. Controversy swirls around the text-some of today's thinkers continue to consider it profound; others contend that it relies on an unsupportable "noble savage" foundation. In either case, this 1752 is one of the greatest works of 18th-century philosophy. Swiss philosopher JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778) was a dramatic influence on the French revolution, 19th-century communism, and much modern political thought. His works include Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750), Discourse on Political Economy (1755), and The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right (1762). [via]
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One Thousand And One Ghosts
by Alexandre Dumas, Andrew Brown

ISBN 1843910829 (1-84391-082-9)
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Pleasures and Days
by Marcel Proust, Andrew Brown

ISBN 184391090X (1-84391-090-X)
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The Poet Assassinated
by Matthew Josephson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Derain

ISBN 1878972294 (1-878972-29-4)
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The Queen's Necklace
by Alexandre Dumas

ISBN 1589632095 (1-58963-209-5)
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Alexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo (1845), The Three Musketeers (1844), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848) were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Though best known now as a novelist, He earned his first fame as a dramatist. His Henri III et sa Cour (1829) was the first of the great Romantic historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famous Hernani (1830). He was also a wellknown travel writer, writing such books as From Paris to Cadiz (1847), and Travel Impressions: In Russia (1860). His other works include Twenty Years After (1845), The Two Dianas (1846), Queen Margot (1845), The Black Tulip (1850), The Wolf-Leader (1857), and The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (1869). [via]
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne

ISBN 1590172183 (1-59017-218-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Sense And Sensibility
by Jane Austen

ISBN 1853260169 (1-85326-016-9)
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Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister:
Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter, Michael Hague

ISBN 1587170523 (1-58717-052-3)
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The quintessential cautionary tale, Peter Rabbit warns naughty children about the grave consequences of misbehaving. When Mrs. Rabbit beseeches her four furry children not to go into Mr. McGregor's garden, the impish Peter naturally takes this as an open invitation to create mischief. He quickly gets in over his head, when he is spotted by farmer McGregor himself. Any child with a spark of sass will find Peter's adventures remarkably familiar. And they'll see in Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail that bane of their existence: the "good" sibling who always does the right thing. One earns bread and milk and blackberries for supper, while the obstinate folly of the other warrants medicine and an early bedtime.
Beatrix Potter's animal stories have been a joy to generations of young readers. Her warm, playful illustrations in soft colors invite children into the world of words and flights of fancy. Once there, she gently and humorously guides readers along the path of righteousness, leaving just enough room for children to wonder if that incorrigible Peter will be back in McGregor's garden tomorrow. (Ages Baby to Preschool) [via]
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens, Gillen D'Arcy Wood

ISBN 1593080557 (1-59308-055-7)
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A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, 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:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of historys most explosive erasthe French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novels hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.
One of Dickenss most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities is a stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.
Gillen DArcy Wood received his Ph.D in English from Columbia University in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 17601860.
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Texaco
by Patrick Chamoiseau

ISBN 2070727505 (2-07-072750-5)
Hardcover, Gallimard

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1992pages. in8. broché. Le troisième roman de Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco (Prix Goncourt 1992), est une ?uvre ambitieuse qui retrace deux siècles d'Histoire martiniquaise à travers le destin d'une fille d'esclave affranchie, célèbre pour avoir fondé le quartier de Texaco à Fort-de France. Le style de Chamoiseau a séduit Milan Kundera, dans un article de la revue l'Infini: Chamoiseau n'a pas fait un compromis entre le français et le créole en les mélangeant. Sa langue, c'est le français, bien que transformé; non pas créolisé (aucun Martiniquais ne parle comme ça) mais chamoisisé. (. )Une oeuvre d'art est un carrefour. Le nombre de rencontres qui y ont lieu me semble être en rapport étroit avec la valeur de l'?oeuvre. [via]
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The Three Evangelists
by Fred Vargas

ISBN 1843430894 (1-84343-089-4)
Hardcover, Harvill Secker

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Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree - both because they need the money and out of sheer curiosity - to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but soil. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend? Or could it be her lovely niece recently moved to the capital? They all seem to have a motive. Vandoosler and the three evangelists set out to find the truth. [via]
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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
by Herve Guibert, Linda Coverdale

ISBN 1852423285 (1-85242-328-5)
Softcover, Serpent's Tail Limited

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The Toilers of the Sea
by Victor Hugo, Shoshana Milgram Knapp

ISBN 1889439215 (1-889439-21-5)
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The Torture Garden
by Octave Mirbeau, Alvah C. Bessie

ISBN 1596540672 (1-59654-067-2)
Softcover, Disruptive Pub

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Torture Garden: A Photographic Archive of the New Flesh
by David Wood

ISBN 1840680032 (1-84068-003-2)
Softcover, Creation Books

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The Ubu Plays
by Alfred Jarry, Kenneth McLeish

ISBN 1854591894 (1-85459-189-4)
Softcover, Theatre Communications Group

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The satirical farce now acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the 20th century.
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UN Amour De Swann
by Marcel Proust

ISBN 2035882133 (2-03-588213-3)
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Vampire Loves
by Joann Sfar

ISBN 1596430931 (1-59643-093-1)
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Meet Ferdinand, a vampire who bites his victims with only one tooth in order to pass as a mosquito, who loves the music of dead singers, and who has no end of trouble trying to make sense of his relationships--some with the living, some with the undead. Vampire Loves follows the strange and comically romantic adventures of Ferdinand and his friends as they flirt with, seduce, cheat on, break up and make up with all manner of strange creatures, including ghosts, other vampires, tree-folk, and golems. Edgy, charming, and filled with Joann Sfar's inimitable blend of tenderness, comedy, melancholy, and philosophy, the four stories in this volume are drawn as much from the Jewish mysticism of eastern Europe as from twenty-first-century Goth culture.

At once silly and serious, wild and poetic, Joann Sfar's disquieting tales are filled with intelligence and rich humanity. Vividly illustrated and sensitively written, Vampire Loves is alive with color, wisdom, and humor.

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Zadig
by Voltaire

ISBN 203871701X (2-03-871701-X)
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La collection "Retour au texte" entend offrir à des prix attractifs le texte ou la traduction doeuvres au programme : présentation claire, appareil critique adapté. Elle met à la disposition des élèves un outil de travail pratique et correspondant à leurs besoins. [via]
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