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Michel Houellebecq: Humanity and its Aftermath by Douglas Morrey 9781846318610
$71.57An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780140449266
RRP: $20.98$15.77The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780141392462
RRP: $50.40$37.72A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns... -
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: $20.98$14.93Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip negra. When his godfather is murdered, Cornelius finds... -
Marcel Proust's Search For Lost Time by Patrick Alexander
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472328Author Patrick AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $16.78$12.16'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good... -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton 9780330354912
RRP: $10.48$7.37'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E A Tyler
RRP: $52.50$37.55For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the definitive guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages and people.The Complete Tolkien Companion explains, translates, and links every single reference - names, dates, places, facts, famous... -
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire,... -
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780300115468
RRP: $20.90$13.10It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated... -
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: $31.50$20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140446890Author Christine de PizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Letters on England by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $27.28$19.09Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French... -
La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas
RRP: $18.88$13.55La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the stage version, in film and television adaptations, and... -
Nana by Emile Zola
RRP: $20.98$14.93'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a... -
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud 9780520064430
RRP: $63.00$48.76A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on... -
La Bete humaine by Emile Zola
RRP: $18.88$13.55Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a... -
Jacques Lacan by Sean Homer 9780415256179
RRP: $41.98$37.15Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as... -
Songs of the Women Troubadours by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner 9780815335689
RRP: $79.78$70.10This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by... -
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson 9780747579571
RRP: $35.68$27.51During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance... -
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: $44.10$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177228Author Michel De MontaigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne 9780007372379
RRP: $6.28$5.92HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the... -
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $23.08$16.32A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of... -
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews by Jean Genet
RRP: $71.40$62.98This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt... -
The Gods Will Have Blood: (Les Dieux Ont Soif) by Anatole France
RRP: $20.98$14.93It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed... -
A Roland Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
RRP: $35.68$25.79'To read through A Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time' New RepublicEdited by Susan Sontag, A Roland Barthes Reader offers a definitive selection of works by the French... -
Beginning and End of the Snow: followed by Where the Arrow Falls by Yves Bonnefoy 9781611484588
$56.03Yves Bonnefoy's book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet's thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first, the wintry New England landscape he encountered while... -
Oxford Literature Companions: No et moi: study guide for AS/A Level French set text by Hannah Thompson 9780198418351
$23.16Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
Jean-Paul Sartre by Christine Daigle 9780415435659
RRP: $41.98$37.15A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre's thought in context, and considers a number... -
The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine
RRP: $58.78$50.53Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulistsTold in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express... -
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts by Marcel Proust
RRP: $52.40$41.75Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century's most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation of his masterpiece.One of the most significant... -
The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida by Dr. Sean Burke
RRP: $65.10$53.87For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Sean Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows... -
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $39.80$30.30In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help explain something of Camus' remarkable character,... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: $23.08$19.97This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 by Albert Camus
$71.80Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood... -
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization by Michael Rothberg
RRP: $54.58$47.12Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: $52.48$47.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 30mm -
Introduction to French Poetry: A Dual-Language Book by Stanley Appelbaum 9780486267111
RRP: $23.08$14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486267111Author Stanley AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Eric Karpeles
RRP: $25.18$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372587Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: $67.20$43.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $27.28$19.09Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in the nineteenth century who created what was later...