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The Baron de Téroze has successfully married off his eldest daughter to a Colonel of the Dragoons, and now it is time for him to arrange his younger daughter's nuptials. The leading magistrate of the parliament at Aix seems to him the ideal cand[...]
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Brecht's Lover is a fictional and hugely compelling tale of love and espionage. offering a fascinating insight into both the political and theatrical worlds of past-war East Berlin. it is also a tender portrayal of one of the greatest playwright[...]
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Colette, Auteur ; Doris Lessing, Préfacier, etc. ; Andrew Brown, Traducteur | London : Hesperus | 2006Claudine's House is a tender and heartfelt portryal of childhood and memory. The popularity of the "Claudine" novels when they were published was so great that they gave rise to a musical stage play and an entire range of associated merchandise.
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Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to its inhabitants, the mad genius Dr. Ox has unleashed a veil of oxyhydric gas over the town—his own living laboratory—in an attempt to spice things up. In his [...]
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Gargantua and Pantagruel relates the adventures of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The tales are adventurous and erudite, festive and gross, ecumenical, and rarely—if ever—solemn for long. The first book, chronologically, was Pantagruel: King [...]
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François Rabelais holds a unique place in the history of world literature, and no more so than for his extraordinary satirical entertainment Gargantua and Pantagruel. Here the first of these volumes is presented in a new and lively translation. [...]
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"The book's enthusiasm is infectious. It delves sympathetically into Sartre's ideas and makes a strong case for their importance."
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A painter who became a novelist, Théophile Gautier formulated the notion of art for art’s sake.” In this literary gem, the gaze is the central character as the eye of the beholder turns deadly. Paul d’ Aspremont, on holiday in Italy, meets his f[...]
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Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. .
