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The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
Booksplease Price: £32.34The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and... -
Life With Lacan Catherine Millot 9781509525010
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51'There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan's essential being from within - that I had gained, as it were, an apperception of his relation to the world, a mysterious access to that... -
Women, Gays and the Constitution: Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law by David A. J. Richards 9780226712079
Booksplease Price: £32.60This study combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development and growing impact of two challenging human... -
Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramon and Zenobia Jimenez by Charlotte Ward 9781433134913
RRP: £80.10Booksplease Price: £70.98The translations by Juan Ramon Jimenez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his... -
The Village by Ivan Bunin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The Village, Ivan Bunin's first full-length novel, is a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia. Set at the time of the 1905 Revolution and centring on episodes in the... -
An Istanbul Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries by Kaya Genc 9789774167218
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.42For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high... -
Coming Out of Feminism? by Mandy Merck 9781557867018
RRP: £115.95Booksplease Price: £107.79Has Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?About the AuthorNaomi Segal is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading. She... -
The Theatre of Garcia Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis by Paul Julian Smith 9780521622929
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It... -
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy night-time thunderstorm in Argentina. As conditions get worse and the... -
Coming Out of Feminism? by Mandy Merck 9781557867025
RRP: £55.95Booksplease Price: £52.41Has Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?About the AuthorNaomi Segal is Professor of French Studies at the University of Reading. She... -
Selected Writings Michaux by Henri Michaux 9780811201056
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74This selection is from L'Espace du Dedans, which collected eight books of prose poems, sketches and free verse. Brilliantly translated by Richard Ellmann, Michaux asks readers to join him in a... -
The Theatre of Garcia Lorca: Text, Performance, Psychoanalysis by Paul Julian Smith 9780521057462
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78The Theatre of Garcia Lorca offers radical new readings of his major plays, drawing on cultural studies, women's and gay studies, psychoanalysis, and previously unexamined archival material. It... -
The Concept of Sin by Josef Pieper 9781890318086
Booksplease Price: £9.61In ordinary conversation, including among the 'educated,' the word 'sin' rarely gets mentioned except when one is trying to be coy or facetious. As Thomas Mann once said, 'sin' is nowadays 'an... -
Aesthetic Rivalries: Word and Image in France, 1880-1926 by Linda Goddard 9783039118793
RRP: £59.35Booksplease Price: £53.12This book explores interaction and competition between painting and literature in France, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, offering new readings of works by key figures... -
Dali's Mustache Salvador Dali 9782080304667
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38Cult classic and collector's item, Dali's Mustache is the result of the astonishing artistic collaboration between surrealist Salvador Dali and experimental photography pioneer Philippe Halsman. Dali... -
The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners by Geoffrey Longnecker 9780984115518
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01A collection of previously unpublished erotic manuscripts from the author of The Songs of Bilitis A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louys (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on,... -
Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil 9780415267670
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.83Letter to a Priest encapsulates the sharp wit and questioning nature of Simone Weil. Regarded by Susan Sontag as 'one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the... -
Colonialism and Homosexuality by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization... -
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: The Norton Library, N515 by James Hogg 9780393005158
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.60The Private Memoirs, first published in 1824, is an early psychological novel, in which the phenomena of the split personality and the obsessed character are described with extraordinary insight. Set... -
Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within: Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read by Barbara Lounsberry 9780813056937
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer's life, from 1929 until Woolf's suicide in... -
This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950 Cesare Pavese 9781412810197
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his... -
Maldoror and Poems by Comte de Lautreamont
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and... -
Colonialism in the Congo Basin, 1880-1940 by Samuel H. Nelson 9780896801806
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This exceptional study of the Mongo people of the upper Congo River basin focuses on the evolution of Mongo work patterns from the period of the late nineteenth century to 1940, the high-water mark... -
Celine the Crippled Giant by Milton Hindus
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Louis Ferdinand Celine (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hitler, but perfectly represented the fascist mind-set... -
French Gay Modernism by Lawrence R. Schehr 9780252029455
Booksplease Price: £40.94The first four decades of the twentieth century saw male homosexuality appear in French literature with increasing frequency and boldness. Departing from earlier, more muted presentations, AndrE... -
Vargamae: Volume 1 of the Truth and Justice Pentalogy by A. H. Tammsaare 9781908251909
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.72Andres, an Estonian peasant, purchases a smallholding in a marshy part of the country, which the novel is named after. He takes his young wife, and an incident with their cow sets the tone for a life... -
The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob 9780984115587
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01The unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by Mallarme, Jarry and Gide, in a new translation When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately... -
An Essay On French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry by Jacques Barzun 9780811211581
Booksplease Price: £12.23In An Essay on French Verse-For Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling English prejudice against French poetry. Barzun's many-faceted and entertaining study muses on six... -
Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing by Sam Ferguson 9780198814535
Booksplease Price: £112.91This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works. From the 1880s it became apparent to... -
Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Considered one of the most influential authors of twentieth century Russian Literature, Ivan Bunin's "Dark Avenues" is the culmination of a life's work which unrelentingly questioned of the political... -
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing Ian Fleishman 9780810148031
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from... -
A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950: French, Italian, and Spanish Criticism, 1900-1950: Volume 8 by Rene Wellek 9780300054514
Booksplease Price: £58.77The final volume of Rene Wellek's monumental history of modern criticism is a comprehensive survey of the main currents of twentieth-century criticism in Western Europe. In this volume, as in the... -
Still: Samuel Becketts Quietism by Andy Wimbush 9783838213699
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.79In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an abject self-referring quietism. Andy Wimbush argues that quietisma philosophical and... -
I Loved a German by A. H. Tammsaare 9781908251831
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.82The newly independent Estonia may be moving forward from its dark past, but not quickly enough for young lovers Oskar, an Estonian university student, and Erika, a Baltic German descended from a now... -
On Replacement: Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations by Jean Owen 9783319760100
Booksplease Price: £91.24This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement. Is one's irreplaceability dependent on surrounding oneself by a replication of others? Is love intrinsically repetitious or... -
You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love by Jean-Noël Orengo 9780241745694
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer'Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?'This is the story of Albert Speer: The protege. The 'good Nazi'. The star. The... -
Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature by John Louis DiGaetani 9780313292194
Booksplease Price: £76.81Joining two seemingly irreconcilable opposites, money and art, this edited collection analyzes the treatment of money in various forms of literature. The volume begins with chapters analyzing money... -
The Friction of Life: An investigation on Renato Caccioppoli's life Lorenza Foschini 9783031652615
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.27Naples, May 8, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, a mathematical genius, prodigious pianist, captivating storyteller, highly cultured and multilingual, believed to be the grandson of the anarchist movement... -
Germinal by Emile Zola 9780140447422
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern FranceEtienne... -
Selected Poetry and Prose by Stephane Mallarme 9780811208239
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.77Selected Poetry and Prose of Stephane Mallarme presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned "father of the Symbolists." Mallarme's major elegies, sonnets, and other verse,...