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Vegetables: Then and Now by Elizabeth Lemoine 9782847900217
Booksplease Price: $5.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782847900217Author Elizabeth LemoineFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint < -
The Miser by Moliere
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.79Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children. ... -
Tartuffe by Moliere 9780872209503
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Prudence Steiner's lively prose translation of Moliere's great comedy remains close to the original French, while casting the speech of characters in a slightly compressed and formalized way that... -
The Misanthrope by Moliere 9781854597878
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $6.27Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him... -
The Mother and The Father by Christopher Hampton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The MotherAnne loved the time in her life when she prepared breakfast each morning for her two young children. Years later, spending hours alone, Anne convinces herself that her husband is having an... -
Don Juan by Moliere 9781854593566
Booksplease Price: $5.36Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish. Set in Sicily,... -
Tartuffe and the Misanthrope by Moliere 9781603841276
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.79Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed and formalized language that echoes the effect... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.51'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles ... -
El Medico a Palos by Moliere 9788471666574
Booksplease Price: $17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788471666574Author MoliereFormat PaperbackImprint -
Las Preciosas Ridiculas by Moliere 9788437613512
Booksplease Price: $18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437613512Author MoliereFormat PaperbackImprint -
Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re... -
Tartuffe, the Imposter by John Donnelly
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Orgon is the man who has everything. Money, power, a beautiful family. But lately he's been questioning the point of it all. When he invites Tartuffe into his perfect household, he unleashes a... -
Tartuffe And Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780451474315
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451474315Author Donald M. FrameFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a... -
Tartuffe: And Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780451530332 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $1.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530332Author Jean-Baptiste MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 432 -
The Kiltartan Molière: the Miser. the Doctor in Spite of Himself. the Roqueries of Scapin by Molière 9780461482393
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461482393Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint -
From the Montaigne to Molière Or, the Preparation for the Classical Age of French Literature by Tilley Tilley 9780461475371
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461475371Author Tilley TilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint -
Agent Molière: The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews 9781350384866
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.17The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than... -
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh 9780241961063
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people,... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Roberto 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... -
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and... -
Literary Landscapes Paris by Sandrine Voillet
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.58From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops,... -
Dangerous Friends: My Father and the Cambridge Spy Ring Jenny Rees 9781474626408
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07SPIES... FAMILIES... SECRETS - perfect for anyone who enjoyed A SPY AMONG FRIENDSOriginally published as LOOKING FOR MR NOBODYA fascinating true story of one man's connection to the Cambridge Spy... -
Educating Agnes by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.94A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Moliere's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead, 'Scotland's... -
Louis XIV Richard Wilkinson 9781138944169
RRP: $56.27Booksplease Price: $53.18Louis XIV ruled France for more than half a century and is typically remembered for his absolutism, his patronage of the arts and his lavish lifestyle - culminating in the building of Versailles... -
When We Are Married by J. B. Priestley 9781849431163
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $19.62In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Or so they think... -
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom 9780063452046
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller."An impressive work...deeply, rightly... -
The Height of the Storm by Christopher Hampton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Andre and Madeleine have been in love for over fifty years. This weekend, as their daughters visit, something feels unusual. A bunch of flowers arrive, but who sent them? A woman from the past turns... -
A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes by Marcus Gardley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.74This fresh take on Moliere's Tartuffe, set in a world of fast-food tycoons and megachurches is a wicked new comedy that rocks the foundations of trust, faith and redemption. Given just days to live,... -
Le Cid by Pierre Corneille 9780882950266
Booksplease Price: $16.03Edited and translated by John C. Lapp, this edition of Le Cid for performance and study includes an introduction, which interprets the contemporary political, social, and romantic themes that give... -
Paris in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.60Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the 'most extraordinary place in the world', for Hazlitt, 'a... -
Four French Plays: Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache, Phaedra by Jean Racine
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This new Penguin volume includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and... -
Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780801490712
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.34This excellent translation makes available a classic work central to one of the most interesting controversies of the eighteenth century: the quarrel between Rousseau and Voltaire. Besides containing... -
The Oedipus Plays: "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles 9781899791958
Booksplease Price: $12.89Oedipus Plays includes Ranjit Bolts's vibrant translations of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonos.A collection of Ranjit Bolts's translations of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus... -
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.73This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The... -
Perfect Days by Liz Lochhead 9781854594372
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock. Barbs Marshall is a celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful and well off, but she is 39 years old and... -
Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation. Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe... -
The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society by Kenneth Ewart Boulding 9780472060474
Booksplease Price: $21.37Is there a level of abstraction from which the segments of our universe can be surveyed and ordered?Kenneth Boulding says there is. It is The Image - "the sum of what we think we know and what makes... -
Ivanov by Anton Chekhov 9781848420687
RRP: $6.03Booksplease Price: $5.82Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the...