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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...

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. Clipped DJ with some tears. Some foxing on book blocks. Clean text. This two-volume set of "The Letters of Gustave Flaubert," translated and edited by Francis...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers have left behind a literary legacy as towering — and as tormented — as Gustave Flaubert, and John Charles Tarver's Gustave Flaubert: As Seen...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Gustave Flaubert stands as one of the most exacting and influential figures...

Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can...

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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon have so devastatingly laid bare the collision between romantic illusion and provincial reality...

Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Fr 'ed 'eric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. This book...

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...

A great blonde giant of a man, Gustave Flaubert lived at home with his widowed mother, writing wonderful novels at the rate of five words an hour, escaping to Paris,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the winter of 1849–1850, Gustave Flaubert — not yet the celebrated author of Madame Bovary — embarked on an extraordinary journey through Egypt, a land...

Three stories that form Flaubert's last complete work and reveal him as a master of the short story form. First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions...

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The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the...

Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the temptations of Egypt In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her...

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of literary biography, Flaubert:...

The searing, tragic French classic in a gorgeous clothbound edition Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of...

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This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing...

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature's most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic....

'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes. Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave...

Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere far from home. Somewhere with better weather, more interesting customs and more inspiring landscapes. So why are we so...

The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a...

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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...

A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are classics; his example continues to challenge and...

Acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray paints a spirited portrait of a woman who defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become one of its...

The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews...

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...

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Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: in shrink wrap. Few thinkers have shaped our understanding of mass psychology and social behaviour as profoundly as Gustave Le Bon, the nineteenth-century...

An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and...

Author: Jean BouretBinding: PaperbackPublished: Thames & HudsonCondition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pagesn 249-264 manufactured upside down, light foxing to page edges, general wear to...

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Author: Chris Horrocks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 175 Explores the work of this influential twentieth century philosoher who overturned our assumptions about madness, sexuality and criminality. Michel Foucault's work...

A varied and comprehensive collection of letters written in the English language from 1578 to 1939. The engrossing anthology contains letters from Albert Einstein, Queen Elizabeth I, Hemingway, Freud, E.B....

A devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken...

Reissue of the collected stories, now including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', the extraordinary fable of a man who lives his life backwards Encompassing the very best of F....