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Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John C. Farrell 9780801444104
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $80.63"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's... -
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61'Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one's regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed' Anita Brookner, SpectatorWhat could possibly... -
The Archipelago of Another Life Andrei Makine 9780857057945
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85"A Siberian Heart of Darkness" Julian BarnesOn the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic... -
The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon by Philip Mansel 9780755645831
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.31The definitive portrait of Napoleon's court from the unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers and his second Empress Marie Louise. Napoleon's military conquests changed the world and... -
A Reference Grammar of French by R. E. Batchelor 9780521196734
Booksplease Price: $204.75A Reference Grammar of French is a lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language. It includes new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign... -
Louise Dupin's Work on Women: Selections by Angela Hunter 9780190090098
Booksplease Price: $145.82The eighteenth-century text Work on Women by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin, 1706-1799) is the French Enlightenment's most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality--and its most neglected... -
Waterloo: Great Battles by Alan Forrest
RRP: $45.81Booksplease Price: $38.22Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who... -
A Reference Grammar of French by R. E. Batchelor 9780521145114
Booksplease Price: $99.51A Reference Grammar of French is a lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language. It includes new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign... -
Ourika, Edouard, and Olivier de Duras 9780192889720
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.' A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by... -
Defining Comedy: Reflections on the Usual Suspects David Ellis 9780718898601
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.88From the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers and psychologists, along with experts from the social sciences and linguistics, have made vain attempts to formulate a general theory of comedy. ... -
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John C. Farrell
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $40.74"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's... -
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space Lucie Cesalkova 9781041183624
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as... -
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9781784878344
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir. Baker took Paris by... -
The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies by Ilya Kiriya 9783030531638
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $218.63Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few... -
Uncertain Glory Joan Sales 9780857051530
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64SPAIN, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluis Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo - a beautiful widow... -
The Limits of Politics: Making the Case for Literature in Political Analysis by Kyle Scott 9781498503372
Booksplease Price: $158.87As political units grow it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain a shared sense of humanity and to recognize people as individuals rather than anonymous beings. To overcome our most pressing... -
The Illustrious House of Ramires by José Maria de Eça de Queirós 9780811226028
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.27The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eca de Queiros aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny... -
Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany by Nick Havely 9780198882626
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.31'The Apennines are Italy' exclaimed The Examiner two centuries ago, yet this unique region and its striking literary and cultural connections are underappreciated in the English-speaking world... -
Love and Language by Ilan Stavans 9780300118056
Booksplease Price: $105.38"It's crucial to keep in mind that our understanding of love is in constant flux and that history is nothing but a sideboard of possibilities."-Ilan Stavans Our understanding of love today is not the... -
Beckett and the Modern Novel by John Bolin 9781107029842
Booksplease Price: $193.89Samuel Beckett's narrative innovations are among his most important contributions to twentieth-century literature. Yet contemporary Beckett scholarship rarely considers the effect of his literary... -
Baudelaire the Damned by F. W. J. Hemmings 9781448205158
Booksplease Price: $34.11First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a fascinating new perspective on Baudelaire's... -
The Life and Times of Emile Zola by F. W. J. Hemmings 9781448205202
Booksplease Price: $29.70Controversy surrounded Zola during his life-time, and controversy has followed him ever since. No other French writer was so violently attacked by contemporaries, none had a more devoted following... -
The Habit of Lying: Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory by John Vignaux Smyth 9780822328216
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle"; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic... -
The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies by Ilya Kiriya 9783030531669
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $218.63Creativity loosely refers to activities in the visual arts, music, design, film and performance that are primarily intended to produce forms of affect and social meaning. Yet, over the last few... -
Elements Of Italy by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran 9781860499241
Booksplease Price: $35.45The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in... -
Candide, or Optimism by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'The prince of philosophical novels' John UpdikeIn Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of... -
Navid Kermani by Helga Druxes 9783034318860
RRP: $110.76Booksplease Price: $99.29Navid Kermani - author, journalist and academic - is one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Germany today. Kermani has been at the forefront of recent debates about Islam and its role in... -
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The Habit of Lying: Sacrificial Studies in Literature, Philosophy, and Fashion Theory by John Vignaux Smyth 9780822328094 [USED COPY]
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $58.40Lying appears to be ubiquitous, what Franz Kafka called "a universal principle"; yet, despite a number of recent books on the subject, it has been given comparatively little genuinely systematic... -
Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World by John Burt Foster 9781441157706
Booksplease Price: $70.86Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of "World Literature," a term that he himself used in What is... -
Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction by Chantal Jaquet
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.52One is not born a worker or a boss, one becomes one from father to son... or almost. Social reproduction is not an iron law; it admits of exceptions that must be accounted for in order to measure its... -
Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy Robert Snell 9781782202479
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $67.45In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or... -
Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition by Gertrude Stein 9780872866355
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01This is the best and most authoritative edition of Tender Buttons, a major fixture in the modernist canon, featuring facsimiles of Stein's corrections, in her own handwriting. Our edition comes... -
Shakespeare and the Romantics by David Fuller 9780199679126
Booksplease Price: $55.38Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and... -
Shakespeare and the Romantics by David Fuller 9780199679119
Booksplease Price: $152.88Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and... -
Lost Souls by Honoré de Balzac
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.66The first new translation of Balzac's 1847 novel Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honore de Balzac's... -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu 9780199549580
Booksplease Price: $102.63Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and... -
Penser l'Espace Avec Le Cinema Et La Litterature by Ludovic Cortade 9781433176289
RRP: $128.51Booksplease Price: $114.56Les co-editeurs de cet ouvrage, Ludovic Cortade (New York University) et Guillaume Soulez (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3), rassemblent un ensemble de contributions redigees par des specialistes de... -
Tales from a Master's Notebook: Stories Henry James Never Wrote by Various
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James's notebooks.When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels... -
Eric Rohmer: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Vittorio Hosle 9781474221122
Booksplease Price: $51.85Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical... -
Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera by Jean Starobinski 9780231140904
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.43We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in opera, we find pure enchantment. What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion?...