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Rome Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $12.65In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in... -
Madrid Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $12.02The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, icy winters and hot, empty summers, student days in the sixties, the ruthless underworld of the... -
Vienna Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $13.56Situated on the cusp of West and East, between the foothills of the Alps and the mighty 'Blue Danube', Vienna has long presented authors with a wealth of material for stories that entertain and... -
Copenhagen Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $13.56Exploring the many moods of the Danish capital. From the narrow twisting streets of the old town centre to the shady docklands, this rich anthology captures the essence of Copenhagen and its many... -
Paris Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.63Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this most visited of capital cities. The twenty-two stories -... -
Amsterdam Tales by Helen Constantine 9780198806493
RRP: $19.42Booksplease Price: $15.33In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a... -
Paris Street Tales by Helen Constantine
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $13.56Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and... -
Moscow Tales by Helen Constantine 9780199559893
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.57Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively... -
Dublin Tales by Helen Constantine 9780192855558
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $13.56Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of... -
Berlin Tales by Helen Constantine 9780199559381
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $13.56Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides a unique insight into the mind of this fascinating city through the eyes of its story-tellers. ... -
French Tales by Helen Constantine 9780199217489
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $12.65French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper... -
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RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $2.65French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper... -
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Paris Street Tales by Helen Constantine 9780198736790 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $2.80Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and... -
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris,... -
The Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks... -
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 9780199686636
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he... -
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former... -
Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his... -
Centres of Cataclysm: celebrating 50 years of Modern Poetry in Translation Sasha Dugdale 9781780372648
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $14.47Centres of Cataclysm celebrates the fifty-year history of Modern Poetry in Translation, one of the world's most innovative and exciting poetry magazines. Founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel... -
The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories by Honore de Balzac
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant... -
Faust, Part II by Goethe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust... -
Nana by Emile Zola
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'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... -
A Love Story by Emile Zola
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.' Helene Grandjean, an... -
Sodom and Gomorrah Marcel Proust 9780192846181
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The...