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Racine and Shakespeare by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.69This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal's decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before 'The Charterhouse of Parma', it... -
Selected Journalism by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.74The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the 'London Magazine', 'New Monthly Magazine' and other English Marketing Reviews of the 1820s are here brought together in a... -
The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio by Stendhal Stendhal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.74The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio - Stendhal's first published work - owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of its author. After the collapse of the Napoleonic empire, Henri Beyle... -
Love by Stendhal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics.In... -
The Life of Rossini by Stendhal
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.66Rossini's success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as "an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition"... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780393928839
Booksplease Price: $22.12An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors... -
Stendhal by Francesco Manzini 9781789141573
Booksplease Price: $22.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Italian Chronicles by Stendhal 9781517900113
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his... -
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal 9780140449662
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father and go to war to fight for Napoleon. He stumbles on the Battle of... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780140447644
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.14Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin... -
The Charterhouse Of Parma by Stendhal 9781857151022
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59A story of passion and political intrigue in which the young and impulsive Fabrizzio finds himself caught between the love of two women and the wars of their aristocratic factions. "The Charterhouse... -
The Red and the Black Stendhal 9780812972078
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972078Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint -
The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century by Stendhal
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the... -
Red and Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal 9781517911447
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.47A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal's original Fueled with a combustible mix of ambition,... -
Escritos Sobre Arte y Teatro by Stendhal 9788477746720
Booksplease Price: $22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788477746720Author StendhalFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Simplon Road: Two essays on Stendhal by Ann Pearson 9781739421212
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739421212Author Ann PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint -
Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature by Viv Groskop 9781419742989
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.97A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more... -
Bertie Plays The Blues: 7 by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349000329
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.54Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals,... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
Booksplease Price: $53.81What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.65More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking... -
Florence Stories by Ella Carr
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32Florence's world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers. Beginning with Dante's vision of Inferno, teeming with his Florentine... -
The Battle Book 2/3 by Frederic Richaud
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The battle has been joined. On this first day, Massena desperately holds onto Aspern, the French cavalry charges again and again, but the Emperor cannot seem to break the Austrians. Louis-Francois,... -
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy by John Armstrong
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores... -
Robert Capa by Abigail Pollak
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Robert Capa is one of four new titles published this September in Thames & Hudson's acclaimed 'Photofile' series. Each book brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an... -
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Maternal Fictions: Stendahl, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille by Maryline Lukacher 9780822314325 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Stendhal, George Sand, Rachilde, Georges Bataille: Forgoing the patronym, with its weight of meaning, these modern French writers renamed themselves in their work. Their use of pseudonyms, as... -
Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang Helene Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines at Paris VIII University, France) 9780745653914
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In 2009, the writer-narrator finds a Box. Within it lie the pages of her very first manuscript, pages she thought she had long since thrown away. Le Prenom de Dieu was the text that marked the start... -
Original Subjects: The Child, the Novel and the Nation by Ala A. Alryyes
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.05Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English... -
Surviving by Allan Massie 9781908251114
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $10.73Like The Death of Men, one of Massie's great novels, Surviving is set in contemporary Rome. The main characters, Belinda (the heroine of the Massie's second novel, The Last Peacock), Kate, an author... -
The Maias by Eca de Queiros
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $30.28Carlos is the talented heir to a notable family in fin-de-siecle Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts and in politics. But he enters a society... -
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.42A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of... -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu 9780199588848
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $19.63Romanticism 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... -
Ant: Collected Short Stories, War Serials and Selected Poems of C. K. Scott Moncrieff by C. K. Scott Moncrieff 9781910895009
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.56Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first time is... -
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien 9780006543077
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.10Winner of the National Book Award, 'Going After Cacciato' captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the Vietnam War, this strangest of wars. In a blend of... -
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Read the first historical novel - this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and warm the heart. ... -
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson 9780747579571
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63During 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... -
Joan of Arc and 'The Great Pity of the Land of France' by Moya Longstaffe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Joan of Arc's life and death mark a turning point in the destiny both of France and England and the history of their monarchies. 'It is a great shame,' wrote Etienne Pasquier in the late sixteenth... -
Graziella: A Novel by Alphonse de Lamartine 9781517902483
Booksplease Price: $20.49In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman's erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means,... -
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Journal of Rehearsals: A Memoir by Wallace Fowlie by Wallace Fowlie 9780822319450 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.68Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie's... -
The Edges of Fiction Jacques Ranciere 9781509530458
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances...