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The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xivby Anne SomersetISBN 0297842161 (0-297-84216-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xiv'Book summary:The Affair of the Poisons, as it was known, was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' and which 'horrified the whole of Europe' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of the Sun King, King Louis XIV in the late 17th century. It began with the trial of Marie Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, who conspired with her lover, Godin de Sainte-Croix, an army captain, to poison her father and two brothers in order to secure the family fortune and to end interference in her adulterous relationship. The marquise fled abroad, but in 1676 was arrested at Liege. The affair greatly worked on the popular imagination, and there were rumours that she had tried out her poisons on hospital patients. She was beheaded and then burned. The Brinvilliers trial attracted attention to other mysterious deaths. Parisian society had been seized by a fad for spiritualist seances, fortune-telling, and the use of love potions. The most celebrated case was that of La Voisin, a midwife and fortune-teller whose real name was Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin and whose clientele included the marquise de Montespan, Olympe Mancini (niece of Cardinal Mazarin and mother of Prince Eugene of Savoy), and Marshal Luxembourg. No formal charges were made, and there is no evidence that they were seriously implicated, yet a permanent stain was left on their names. La Voisin was burned as a poisoner and a sorceress in 1680. A special court, the chambre ardente [burning court], was instituted to judge cases of poisoning and witchcraft, and the poison epidemic came to an end in France. The affair was sympomatic of the witchcraft trials of the period throughout Europe. This bizarre witchhunt, which embroiled the gilded denizens of Versailles with the most sordid dregs of Paris society, remains both a fascinating enigma and an utterly compelling story. [via]
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All for Loveby Dan JacobsonISBN 0241142733 (0-241-14273-3)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Atget's Seven Albumsby Molly NesbitISBN 0300059167 (0-300-05916-7)
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Balzacby William Rose, Stefan Zweig, Richard Friedenthal, Dorothy RoseISBN 0304935506 (0-304-93550-6)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity A Cultural Biographyby Irene GammelISBN 026257215X (0-262-57215-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity A Cultural Biography'Book summary:Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874?1927) is considered by many to be the first American dadaist as well as the mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. The editor Margaret Anderson called her "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." Yet despite her great notoriety and influence, until recently her story and work have been little known outside the circle of modernist scholars.In Baroness Elsa, Irene Gammel traces the extraordinary life and work of this daring woman, viewing her in the context of female dada and the historical battles fought by women in the early twentieth century. Striding through the streets of Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris wearing such adornments as a tomato-soup can bra, teaspoon earrings, and black lipstick, the Baroness erased the boundaries between life and art, between the everyday and the outrageous, between the creative and the dangerous. Her art objects were precursors to dada objects of the teens and twenties, her sound and visual poetry were far more daring than those of the male modernists of her time, and her performances prefigured feminist body art and performance art by nearly half a century.
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Bel Amiby Guy De Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge, Margaret MauldonISBN 0192836838 (0-19-283683-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bel Ami'Book summary:Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.
Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant's greatest achievement as a novelist.
This new translation is complemented by fullest introduction and notes of any edition currently available. [via]More editions of Bel Ami:
Cafe Society ; Bohemian Life from Swift to Bob Dylanby Steve BradshawISBN 029777428X (0-297-77428-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. -
Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-gardeby Rebecca A. Rabinow, Gloria Groom, Douglas W. Druick, Ann Dumas, Anne RoquebertISBN 0300117795 (0-300-11779-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Chardin: Paris, Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, 7 September-22 November 1999 Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum Im Ehrenhof, 5 December 1999-20 February 2000by Pierre Rosenberg, Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais (France)ISBN 0300083483 (0-300-08348-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Chic Shopper's Guide to Parisby Maribeth Clemente, Maribeth Ricour De BourgiesISBN 0312045751 (0-312-04575-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Constantin Brancusi: 1876-1957by Ann Temkin, Margit Rowell, Friedrich Teja Bach, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre Georges PompidouISBN 0262023954 (0-262-02395-4)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Constantin Brancusi: 1876-1957'Book summary:Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) is one of the most important names in 20th-century sculpture. This book accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Brancusi's scultpure, drawings, and photographs organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. This work is illustrated throughout with photographs by the artist and images culled from a wide range of archival sources. The authors provide a detailed reassessment of Brancusi's work, incorporating and extending the revisions in scholarship that have been taking place since the last major retrospective in 1969-1970. The three major essays present information on such diverse issues as the sculptor's sources of inspiration, his formal approach, and the works' original presentation. Friedrich Teja Bach rejects the notion of Brancusi's oeuvre as hermetic, timeless and pure, and examines instead the heterogeneous combinations of form and material that make Brancusi's works compellingly paradoxical. Margit Rowell explores the sculptor's place in the artistic climate of Paris in the 1910s and 1920s and his rejection of dominant styles and subject matter in favour of non-Western sources, particularly Asian art. Ann Temkin traces the history of Brancusi's American patronage during his lifetime by such influential collectors as John Quinn, Katherine Dreier, James Johnson Sweeney, and Louise and Walter Arensberg. The plate section features full-colour reproductions of over 100 sculptures, with accompanying texts and visual references. In addition, 55 photographs by Brancusi in full-page duotone are shown alongside a major selection of his sculptures. There are also colour and black and white reproductions of over forty of his drawings - as well as prefatory essays on the photographs and drawings, a chronology, and bibliographic and exhibition listings. [via]
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192833952 (0-19-283395-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Christopher Fry, Edmond Rostand, Nicholas CronkISBN 0192824244 (0-19-282424-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cyrano De Bergeracby Edmond RostandISBN 0192836439 (0-19-283643-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyrano De Bergerac'Book summary:'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century theatre. He wrote his 'heroic comedy', unfashionably, in verse, and set it in the reign of Louis XIII and the Three Musketeers. Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. Audiences immediately took him to their hearts, and since the triumphant opening night in December 1897 - at the height of the Dreyfus Affair - the play has never lost its appeal. The text is accompanied by notes and a full introduction which sets the play in its literary and historical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into 'chiming couplets' represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another. [via]
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Dada, Art and Anti-Artby Hans RichterISBN 0195200713 (0-19-520071-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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A Day With Picassoby Billy KluverISBN 0262611473 (0-262-61147-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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A Day With Picasso: Twenty-Four Photographs by Jean Cocteauby Billy KluverISBN 0262112280 (0-262-11228-0)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Projectby Susan Buck-MorssISBN 0262521644 (0-262-52164-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arrangedby William L. LangerISBN 0245596224 (0-245-59622-4)
Hardcover, Harrap
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0224022229 (0-224-02222-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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Flying Out of This Worldby Peter GreenawayISBN 0226306372 (0-226-30637-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthologyby Bonnie K. ScottISBN 0253351227 (0-253-35122-7)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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The Grand Tour: The European Adventure of a Continental Drifterby Tim MooreISBN 0312281560 (0-312-28156-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History, With a New Introductionby Donald R. HopkinsISBN 0226351688 (0-226-35168-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Henry Miller, Happy Rockby Brassai, Jane Marie ToddISBN 0226071391 (0-226-07139-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Iliadby Richmond Lattimore, HomerISBN 0226469379 (0-226-46937-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Iliad'Book summary:[via]"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translationthe gold standard for generations of students and general readers.
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first centurywhile leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever. Lattimore's elegant, fluent verseswith their memorably phrased heroic epithets and remarkable fidelity to the Greekremain unchanged, but classicist Richard Martin has added a wealth of supplementary materials designed to aid new generations of readers. A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life, warfare, society, and poetry, while line-by-line notes at the back of the volume offer explanations of unfamiliar terms, information about the Greek gods and heroes, and literary appreciation. A glossary and maps round out the book.
The result is a volume that actively invites readers into Homer's poem, helping them to understand fully the worlds in which he and his heroes livedand thus enabling them to marvel, as so many have for centuries, at Hektor and Ajax, Paris and Helen, and the devastating rage of Achilleus.More editions of The Iliad:
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Iliad of Homerby Ennis Rees, HomerISBN 0195068262 (0-19-506826-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'Book summary:This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. [via]
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Iliad of Homerby Homer, Richmond LattimoreISBN 0226469409 (0-226-46940-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad of Homer'Book summary:"The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."--William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."--Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers of Homer and the classics, and the multitude who always wanted to read the great Iliad but never got around to doing so."-- The American Book Collector "Perhaps closer to Homer in every way than any other version made in English."--Peter Green, The New Republic "The feat is decisive that it is reasonable to foresee a century or so in which nobody will try again to put the Iliad in English verse."--Robert Fitzgerald "Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. [Lattimore] has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. In our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books "Over the long haul Lattimore's translation is more powerful because its effects are more subtle."-- Booklist "Richmond Lattimore is a fine translator of poetry because he has a poetic voice of his own, authentic and unmistakable and yet capable of remarkable range of modulation. His translations make the English reader aware of the poetry."--Moses Hadas, The New York Times [via]
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Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identityby J. Gerald KennedyISBN 0300061021 (0-300-06102-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Innocents Abroadby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Mordecai RichlerISBN 0195101324 (0-19-510132-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocents Abroad'Book summary:In 1867, Mark Twain set out from New York City for Europe and the Holy Land on the paddle-steamer Quaker City. The result of that trip was The Innocents Abroad, a travel book unlike any that had gone before it. Irreverent and irrepressible, Twain pokes fun at officious tour guides and offensive tourists alike. The book offers a glimpse of a major writer when he was young and just beginning to flex his muscles, and also serves as an enduring no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler to Europe and the Holy Land. The trip stimulates Twain to meditate on how the "new world" is different from the "old" and engenders reflections on what a society must be like to be thought of as genuinely "civilized." The Innocents Abroad is alternately profound and profoundly entertaining. Twain may find himself exasperated or exhausted--but the story he tells is never dull. It is no wonder that the book was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. [via]
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The Innocents Abroad (1869by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114027 (0-19-511402-7)
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LA Dame Aux Cameliasby Alexandre Dumas, David CowardISBN 0192836382 (0-19-283638-2)
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The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold Warby Herbert R. LottmanISBN 0226493687 (0-226-49368-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Les Liaisons Dangereusesby Choderlos De Laclos, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192838679 (0-19-283867-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'Book summary:Au petit jeu du libertinage, l'adorable Valmont et la délicieuse Madame de Merteuil se livrent à une compétition amicale et néanmoins acharnée : c'est à celui qui aura le plus de succès galants, et le moins de scrupules. Peu importent les sentiments, seule la jouissance compte. Les conquêtes se succèdent de part et d'autre, jusqu'à ce que Valmont rencontre la vertu incarnée : la présidente de Tourvel. Elle est belle, douce, mariée et chaste : en un mot, intouchable. Voilà une proie de choix pour Valmont : saura-t-il relever ce défi sans tomber dans les pièges de l'amour ? De lettre en lettre, les héros dévoilent leurs aventures, échangent leurs impressions et nous entraînent dans un tourbillon de plaisirs qui semble n'avoir pas de fin.
Ce sulfureux roman a longtemps été censuré, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de fasciner des générations de lecteurs et, plus près de nous, de captiver bon nombre de cinéastes : Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Stephen Frears mais aussi les adaptations de Roger Vadim, et de Milos Forman. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Looking At Atgetby Ken Sutherland, Beth A. Price, Peter BarberieISBN 0300111371 (0-300-11137-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Lost King of France : A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNAby Deborah CadburyISBN 0312283121 (0-312-28312-1)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost King of France : A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA'Book summary:Royalty, revolution, and scientific mystery---the dramatic true account of the fate of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and an extraordinary detective story that spans more than two hundred years.[via]
Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything. Drawn into the horror of the French Revolution, his family was incarcerated and their fate thrust into the hands of the revolutionaries who wished to destroy the monarchy.
In 1793, when Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the guillotine, she left her adored eight-year-old son imprisoned in the Temple Tower. Far from inheriting a throne, the orphaned boy-king had to endure the hostility and abuse of a nation. Two years later, the revolutionary leaders declared Louis XVII dead. No grave was dug, no monument built to mark his passing.
Immediately, rumors spread that the prince had, in fact, escaped from prison and was still alive. Others believed that he had been murdered, his heart cut out and preserved as a relic. As with the tragedies of England's princes in the Tower and the Romanov archduchess Anastasia, countless "brothers" soon approached Louis-Charles's older sister, Marie-Therese, who survived the revolution. They claimed not only the dauphin's name, but also his inheritance. Several "princes" were plausible, but which, if any, was the real heir to the French throne?
The Lost King of France is a moving and dramatic tale that interweaves a pivotal moment in France's history with a compelling detective story that involves pretenders to the crown, royalist plots and palace intrigue, bizarre legal battles, and modern science. The quest for the truth continued into the twenty-first century, when, thanks to DNA testing, the strange odyssey of a stolen heart found within the royal tombs brought an exciting conclusion to the two-hundred-year-old mystery of the lost king of France.More editions of The Lost King of France : A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA:
Maigret in Exileby Georges SimenonISBN 0241898544 (0-241-89854-4)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939by Julian SymonsISBN 0233980075 (0-233-98007-5)
Hardcover, A. Deutsch
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Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazareby Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Juliet Wilson BareauISBN 0300075103 (0-300-07510-3)
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The Masterpieceby Emile Zola, Thomas WaltonISBN 0192839632 (0-19-283963-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Masterpieceby Thomas Walton, Emile Zola, Roger PearsonISBN 0192829068 (0-19-282906-8)
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The Memoirs of Helen of Troyby Amanda ElyotISBN 0307338606 (0-307-33860-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Gossips began whispering about Princess Helen from the moment of her birth. A daughter of the royal house of Sparta, she was not truly the progeny of King Tyndareus, they murmured, but of Zeus, king of the gods. Her mother, Queen Leda, a powerful priestess, was branded an adulteress, with tragic consequences. To complicate matters, as Helen grew to adulthood her beauty was so breathtaking that it overshadowed even that of her jealous sister, Clytemnestra, making her even more of an outcast within her own family. So it came as something of a relief to her when she was kidnapped by Theseus, king of Athens, in a gambit to replenish his kingdoms coffers.
But Helen fell in love with the much older Theseus, and to his surprise, he found himself enamored of her as well. On her forced return to Sparta, Helen was hastily married off to the tepid Menelaus for the sake of an advantageous political alliance. Yet even after years of marriage, the spirited, passionate Helen never became the docile wife King Menelaus desired, and when she fell in love with another manParis Alexandros, the prodigal son of King Priam of TroyHelen unwittingly set the stage for the ultimate conflict: a war that would destroy nearly all she held dear.
I learned that I was different when I was a very small girl: when the golden curls, which barely reached my shoulders at the time, began to turn the color of burnished vermeil. Your grandmother Leda, whom you never knew, told me that I was a child of Zeus. Since I thought my fathers name was Tyndareus, her words upset me. Seeing my pink cheeks marred by tears of confusion, my mother handed me a mirror of polished bronze and asked me to study my reflection.
Do you look like me? she asked.
I nodded, noting in my own skin the exquisite fairness of her complexion, and her hair the same shade as mine that tumbled like flowing honey past the hollow of her back.
And do you resemble my husband Tyndareus? she said to me.
I looked in the mirror and then looked again. For several minutes I remember expecting the mirror to show me my fathers face, but Tyndareus was olive complected where I was not, his nose like the beak of a falcon where my own was straight and fine-boned, and his cheekbones were hollow and slack where, even then, beneath a childs rosy plumpness, mine were high and prominent.
Its time for me to tell you everything, my mother said . . .
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Men and Monumentsby Janet FlannerISBN 0306804174 (0-306-80417-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Music Musique: French & American Piano Composition in the Jazz Ageby Barbara MeisterISBN 0253346088 (0-253-34608-8)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The New Painting, Impressionism, 1874-1886: An Exhibition Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco With the National Gallery of Art, Washingtonby Charles S. Moffett, Ruth Berson, Barbara Lee WilliamsISBN 0295968834 (0-295-96883-4)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyceby Brenda MaddoxISBN 0241123852 (0-241-12385-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashionby Blau HerbertISBN 0253213339 (0-253-21333-9)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashionby Herbert BlauISBN 0253335876 (0-253-33587-6)
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Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternativeby Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Gabriel Cohn-BenditISBN 0233961062 (0-233-96106-2)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Oxford French Minidictionary: French-English, English-Frenchby Not Available, Jean-Benoit Ormal-GrenonISBN 0198610459 (0-19-861045-9)
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The Oxford French Minidictionary: French-English/English-Frenchby Marianne Chalmers, Rosalind CombleyISBN 019860467X (0-19-860467-X)
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The Oxford Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
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The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essaysby Charles BaudelaireISBN 0306802791 (0-306-80279-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Parisby Thomas E. CrowISBN 0300037643 (0-300-03764-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Paris in the Age of Absolutismby Orest A. RanumISBN 0271022213 (0-271-02221-3)
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The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanismby Hilary BallonISBN 0262521970 (0-262-52197-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Paris Years of Thomas Jeffersonby William Howard AdamsISBN 0300082614 (0-300-08261-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Parisian Viewsby Shelley RiceISBN 0262681072 (0-262-68107-2)
Softcover, MIT Press
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During the Second Empire (1852-1870), Baron Haussmann and Emperor Napoleon III reconstructed Paris into the "City of Light" we know today. The government and other public institutions commissioned many photographersamong them Charles Marville, Henri Le Secq, Edouard-Denis Baldus, and Gustave Le Grayto record the old Parisian architecture and to document the demolition and reconstruction. In Parisian Views, Shelley Rice explores not only the literal connections between photography and the transformation of Paris but also the metaphorical ones. For like Haussmann and Napoleon III, the photographers forged a new visual image of the city. As they constructed their "views" of Paris, they imposed order on the architecture, vistas, and street life of a city-in-progress perceived from above and below, from the skies and the sewers, from the marketplace and the windows of passing trains. [via]More editions of Parisian Views:
Passionate Mindsby David BodanisISBN 0307237206 (0-307-23720-6)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Manby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192839985 (0-19-283998-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870by Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Gilles Postel-VinayISBN 0226348016 (0-226-34801-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in Historyby Donald R. HopkinsISBN 0226351769 (0-226-35176-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Proust Among the Starsby Malcolm BowieISBN 0231114915 (0-231-11491-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, L. G. MitchellISBN 0192839780 (0-19-283978-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Riches of Paris : A Shopping and Touring Guideby Maribeth ClementeISBN 0312269072 (0-312-26907-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Sans Moiby Marie Desplechin, Will HobsonISBN 0312284179 (0-312-28417-9)
Softcover, Picador
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Sentimental Educationby Gustave Flaubert, Douglas ParmeeISBN 0192836226 (0-19-283622-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Start in Lifeby Anita BrooknerISBN 022401899X (0-224-01899-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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Therese Raquinby Emile Zola, Andrew RothwellISBN 0192826530 (0-19-282653-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tigers Are Better-Looking: With a Selection from The Left Bank Storiesby Jean RhysISBN 0233959874 (0-233-95987-4)
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TouchT: A Frenchwoman's Take on the Englishby Agnes Catherine PoirierISBN 0297852345 (0-297-85234-5)
Softcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
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Trilbyby George Du Maurier, Dennis Denisoff, Elaine ShowalterISBN 0192833510 (0-19-283351-0)
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Trilby and Other Plays: Four Plays for Victorian Star Actorsby Peter Holland, Michael Cordner, Martin Wiggins, George TaylorISBN 019282984X (0-19-282984-X)
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A Word from Parisby Alister KershawISBN 0207170681 (0-207-17068-1)
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoneby J. K. Rowling, Darakhshanda Asghar KhokharISBN 0195798589 (0-19-579858-9)
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