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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew documents capture the glittering and scandalous heart of nineteenth-century Parisian literary life quite like the diary kept...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of art criticism and passionate biography, French Eighteenth-Century Painters stands as a landmark testament to...

A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic 'You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d'Annunzio, Ambassador of France!' For his whole life, Romain Gary's fierce,...

Seventy-two men arrive in the Sicilian countryside. They are "immigrants", "refugees" or "migrants". But in Altino, they are called the ragazzi, the 'guys' that the Santa Marta Association have taken...

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...

Condition remarks: Condition: Paperback - good/fair, cover may be worn. May have inscription on fep. In The Genius of the Future: Essays in French Art Criticism, Anita Brookner — herself...

______________ 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph 'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian 'White's genius as a flaneur is revealed in his...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Two of...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced...

'Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.' The Guardian **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** A...

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...

Author: Alexandre DumasFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 204mm, 1115g, 1312 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012Beautiful new clothbound edition of Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge Thrown...

One of the earliest and finest of Balzac's works, exploring the tragedy that comes with obsession. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife...

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography, recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it truly mean to write with mastery, and what secrets can the greatest European literary minds...

Author: Aidan CrawleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the life and political career of Charles de Gaulle,...

A landmark publication tracing the final months of Van Gogh's life. Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months offers a unique and impressive overview of the paintings and drawings that...

An intimate testament to the power of friendship between two creative forces-available again in English after more than a century. "I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but...

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Author: G. P. (George Peabody) GoochBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green And Co., 1944, Second Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerCourts and Cabinets is a significant work by...

France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...

Often hailed as a "Renaissance man" for the astounding diversity of his activities, Andre Malraux was a living legend long before his death in 1976. Few French writers of this...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of nineteenth-century French literature stands...

Author: The Hon. Evan Charteris, K.C.Binding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Small stamps on prelims, otherwise internally sound. This...

First time in Penguin Classics for Rostand's popular comedy about the love-sick swain with an ear for a fine phrase and an extravagantly large nose. Poet and soldier, brawler and...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Edmund White Format: Hardback...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew literary titans loom as large over the French tradition as Honoré de Balzac, and Mary F. Sandars' comprehensive...

Penguin Classics relaunch A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with the French Revolution, his search for...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerA masterwork of restrained passion and psychological acuity, Dominique stands as one of the most celebrated French...

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In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between France and England. His art of attacking...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Appears intact. No stickers or labels visible. Letters from Spain presents the vivid, firsthand correspondence...

Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality 'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: none. Binding condition: Intact. Stickers/labels: Library sticker on spine. A landmark work of popular history, The Fall of...

An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist Azincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England's...

Agincourt took place on 25 October 1415 and was a turning-point not only in the Hundred Years War between England and France but also in the history of weaponry. Azincourt...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBeneath the glittering gaslit boulevards of nineteenth-century Paris, a shadowy world of glamour, scandal, and calculated seduction thrived — the world of the grandes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...