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A masterly new translation of Rabelais' great scatological comedy - a fantasy set in a land of giants The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and dull spine. This classic pair of Renaissance satirical novels...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew works in the Western literary canon match the anarchic brilliance and philosophical depth of François Rabelais's The Histories...

This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the...

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A completely revised edition of a respected & much-loved translation by Betty Radice The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs....

Author: Mab Van Lohuizen-MulderBinding: HardbackPublished: Mirananda, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work presents a profound analysis within Raphael's Images: Justice - Humanity - Friendship, examining the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersOne of French literature's most haunting and morally complex...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In Memoires Interieurs, Nobel Prize-winning French author...

Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good — dust jackets present on both volumes, clean with minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Tight and...

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...

Translated by Sylvia Raphael, this edition fully captures the wit and elegance of the original stories One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter...

Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew windows into the mind of a literary genius are as intimate or as revelatory as his private correspondence, and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Few writers have dissected the hypocrisies of French Catholic bourgeois society with the surgical precision...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the sun-drenched glamour of Hollywood lies a world of ambition, compromise, and quiet moral erosion — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the suffocating atmosphere of provincial Bordeaux, François Mauriac's The Unknown Sea charts the moral and spiritual disintegration of a bourgeois family consumed by...

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,...

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...

Author: Helen WaddellBinding: HardbackPublished: Constable and Company Limited, 1933Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly volume presents a compelling examination of...

Author: Gerard HopkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: Bibliophile Books, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThe 'Francois Mauriac Omnibus' is a collection translated by Gerard Hopkins, showcasing the works of the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. A candid and captivating autobiography, Réponses presents the...

In her delightful memoir, Marisa Raoul takes us to the heart of her 'medieval' B&B, with incidents full of Gallic humour and eccentricity. A quiet 'tree-change' turns out to be...

Sent by her mother and stepfather to "Birchtree Villa," Francoise falls easy victim to the sensuous whims of the lithe, strong, severely beautiful teachers whose rampant passions, furiously unleashed in...

This final entry in Arnie and Cathy Fenner's Frazetta trilogy features 150 full-color paintings by the renowned artist and illustrator, ranging in subject matter from barbarian battles to erotica to...

A selection of seventy exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings. This beautifully illustrated catalog presents a selection of exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck Collection in the Ackland Art Museum at...