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The Prose Poems
Although best known for his collection of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal , Baudelaire was also a gifted and inventive prose writer. In combining certain of the restrictions of poetic...
Selected Poems
A selection of Baudelaire's explicit and unsettling poems The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary...
The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen De Paris, Petits Poèmes En Prose
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Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Ex-library with usual markingsA landmark of French literary modernism, The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en Prose...
The Flowers of Evil: Dual Language and New Verse Translation
Unique edition in dual language Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in...
The Flowers of Evil: The Definitive English Language Edition
A major work of world literature, The Flowers of Evil scandalized Baudelaire's contemporaries and reinvented beauty in the midst of modernity. Probing the depths of the modern psyche in a...
The Painter Of Modern Life: And Other Essays
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Some pencil underlining.In the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire turned his razor-sharp critical eye upon the teeming spectacle of Parisian modernity, producing a...
Selected Writings on Art and Literature
Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This...
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson
The 'invigorating', 'stupendous' and 'exhilarating' guide (Observer) to the beguiling form which has attracted many of our most beloved writers 'It is hard to know how it could possibly be...
White Teeth, Red Blood: Selected Vampiric Verses
Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into... Seductively sinister, both frightening and alluring, the undead have always...
The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950
This edition contains the original poems in French, with elegant prose translations by William Rees This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry -...
The 120 Days of Sodom
A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history- Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the...
To Walk Alone in the Crowd
Author: Antonio Munoz Molina Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Winner of the 2020 Prix Medicis Etranger. I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive...
Scanty Plot of Ground: A Book of Sonnets
In the introduction to his selection of some of the greatest sonnets ever written, Paul Muldoon reminds us that part of the reason for the 'durability' of the sonnet is...
Philosophy in the Boudoir
Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
The Book Of Ballads
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor marks and specks on boards. Mild bumping on...
Modernity And Its Discontents: French Society And The French Man Of Letters In The Nineteenth Century
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent crossroads of art, society, and political upheaval, nineteenth-century France produced a remarkable cast of writers...
The Ruin of Kasch
A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects- "the first is Talleyrand,...
Non-fiction Classics Bargain Book Box
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This collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the...
The Hostile Hospital
Author: Lemony Snicket Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES The Baudelaires need a safe place to stay-somewhere far away from terrible villains and local police....
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's most moving poem, publishing as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde...
The Reptile Room
Author: Lemony Snicket Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant...
The Reptile Room
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There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read....
Psychical Phenomena And The Physical World
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsPsychical Phenomena And The Physical World by Charles Mccreery
The Carnivorous Carnival
Author: Lemony Snicket Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle,...
Philosophy Bargain Book Box
Philosophy Bargain Book Box Daniel Dennett wrote his memoir knowing it would be his last book. It's in here. So is Nietzsche at his most provocative, Sun Tzu still being...
Life Of Galileo
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The Miserable Mill
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1040 Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror.The...
Tales of Ordinary Madness
More semi-autobiographical short stories from cult writer Charles Bukowski Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life...
Life Of Galileo
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The Vile Village
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There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read....
Bon Gaultier Ballads
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Author: Bon GaultierBinding: HardbackPublished: William Blackwood And Sons, 1904Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Bumping on spine and...
Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context
In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the...
The Complete Works of Honoré de Balzac (20 vols.)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Clean and bright set. Some foxing on book blocks. All plates and frontis present. No loose hinges/cracked joints. This twenty volume set...
Sydney Revels (The Eighteen-Fifties) Of Bacchus, Cupid, And Momus
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The Slippery Slope
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The Portable Voltaire
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Western intellectual history cast as long a shadow as...
Selected Prose
The essential works of a master of English prose, reissued in Penguin Classics This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose...
The Wide Window
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Selected Prose
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Less Than One: Selected Essays
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. As new What emerges when one of the twentieth century's greatest poets turns critic is nothing...
Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection...