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Voltaire
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few figures in Western intellectual history cast...
Voltaire
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...
Voltaire
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Condition remarks: Condition: Fair to Good. No dust jacket. The book is open to the title page, which shows yellowing and tanning consistent with age. The boards appear worn at...
Treatise on Toleration
One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his...
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...
Voltaire's Politics: The Poet As Realist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of history's most brilliantly subversive minds turns its full satirical power upon the machinery...
Voltaire in Exile
In Voltaire In Exile, Ian Davidson has recreated this period in the life of one of the giant figures of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...
Candide And Other Romances
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
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Candide And Other Romances
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Author: VoltaireBinding: HardbackPublished: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCandide is a satirical novella that chronicles the...
Madame De Pompadour: Mistress of France
This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV of France offers a dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful and feared women to...
Opposition to Louis XIV: The Political and Social Origins of the French Enlightenment
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Author: Lionel RothkrugBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1965Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book traces the history of the anti-mercantilist movement and demonstrates that many ideas associated...
Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record
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Mémoires Intérieurs
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Author: François Mauriac; Translated by Gerard HopkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, 1960Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsMémoires Intérieurs presents a profound journey into the spiritual and...
The French Revolution In Paris: Seen Through The Collections Of The Carnavalet Museum
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: english text. Minor stains on boards. Few events have reshaped the modern world as dramatically as the...
Madness, Language, Literature
Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are...
The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meisonnier and an Artistic Revolution
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Vol De Nuit
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Edition: No. 701 of 5000 copiesCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**In the golden age of aviation, where every flight...
Mémoires D'Outre-Tombe
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Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodCondition remarks: **FRENCH TEXT ONLY**Few works in the Western literary canon carry the weight of a...
Without Marx Or Jesus
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an era defined by ideological upheaval, Jean-François Revel's Without Marx or Jesus presents a bold and provocative...
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
An Army Of Amateurs: The Story Of The Soe Resistance Movement In France, By One Of The Three Brothers Who Organized And Ran It.
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Author: Philippe De VomecourtBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday & Company, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Clear slipcase over DJ. Small stain to spine of DJ otherwise...
Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great...
Voltaire's Calligrapher
An elegant and atmospheric literary thriller that will delight fans of The Interpretation of Murder and The Shadow of the Wind Eighteenth century France: the Age of Enlightenment. Dalessius is...
Auguste Blanqui And The Art Of Insurrection
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the turbulent landscape of nineteenth-century radical politics burned as defiantly as Louis Auguste Blanqui —...
Voltaire's Coconuts: Anglophiles and Anglophobes
Voltaire's Coconuts is a wonderfully engaging and witty combination of history and biography which looks at how Europeans have been fascinated by all that it means to be English. Dutch...
The Fall Of Paris: The Siege And The Commune 1870-71
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Author: Alistair HorneBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan., 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Some chips and...
The Inner Presence: (Nouveaux Mémoires Intérieurs): Recollections Of My Spiritual Life
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerThe Inner Presence: Recollections Of My Spiritual Life presents a profound spiritual memoir from the esteemed Nobel laureate,...
The Fear Of Freedom
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to be free — and why does humanity so often recoil from the...
The View Of France: From Arnold To Bloomsbury
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or price tags visible. A rich work of cultural...
The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; stamp on fep; some foxing on the front cover, otherwise internally sound. Few...
The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most electrifying works of political analysis ever written, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte chronicles...
The Civil War In France
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Edition: 3rd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWritten in the heat of revolutionary upheaval, The Civil War in France stands as one...
The French Revolution: A Political History
A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, France's ancien regime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige,...
The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today--as they have been over the centuries--as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism,...
Books that have Changed Man’s Thinking (14 vols.)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew collections have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western world quite like Great Books...
The Fall Of Paris: The Siege And The Commune 1870-1
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of narrative history, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 chronicles one of the most...
The Ile-De-France: The Country Around Paris
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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. Few historians...