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Stendhal's intensely personal and yet universal work on Love In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She,...

A new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece chronicling the fortunes of Febrice del Dongo at an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France. Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo...

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of...

The book titled Stendhal by the author Jonathan Keates. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A work...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of European literature are as paradoxical and fascinating as Stendhal — the soldier-turned-novelist...

Author: David WakefieldBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsStendhal And The Arts presents a compelling examination of the profound connections between the celebrated French...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon's armies, and he continued to...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingOne of the most candid and searching works of self-examination in all of Western literature,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew autobiographies in the Western canon are as bracingly honest, as psychologically penetrating, or as defiantly unconventional as The Life...

Author: StendhalBinding: HardbackPublished: THE ORION PRESS LIMITED, 1959Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsA Roman Journal presents Stendhal's vivid observations and personal reflections on the Eternal City during his...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA landmark of autobiographical fiction, The Life of Henry Brulard chronicles the early years of its author through the thinly...

Author: StendhalBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books - LondonCondition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsStendhal's masterful novel, The Chartreuse of Parma, chronicles the tumultuous life of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice...

Author: Stendhal (BEYLE, Henri)Binding: HardbackPublisher: John Lehmann, 1951, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThis novel follows the life of Lucien Leuwen, a young man...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Italian, However book is mainly comprised of beautiful watercolour works A richly evocative...

A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose...

New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal...

Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. What is the rightful place of ideas in fiction — and has the novel abandoned...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to be truly noble in a world that no longer recognises nobility? Sons of Kings, originally published in...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the volatile intersection of ideology and imagination, Irving Howe's Politics and the Novel stands as one of the most penetrating works...

A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the greatest literary minds in history turn their attention to seduction? A Literary Guide to Seduction, edited and introduced by Robert...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent heart of the Parisian avant-garde stands Guillaume Apollinaire — poet, critic, provocateur, and the magnetic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a literary landscape crowded with mediocrity and fashionable obscurantism, Stephen Vizinczey's Truth &...

Universally recognized as a premier writers of crime fiction, Nicolas Freeling here displays yet another side of his original mind in these "enviably perceptive and lyrical" essays (Kirkus) on other...

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: Francis SteegmullerBinding: HardbackPublished: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacket, cloth cover has wear, spine has significant tanning and water staining (see...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsHigh-stakes intrigue and relentless pacing define this quartet of thrillers, where powerful secrets ignite deadly conspiracies across continents. Ordinary men are thrust...

Based on real events, I WAS JANE AUSTEN'S BEST FRIEND is the secret diary of Jenny Cooper, Jane Austen's teenage friend and confidante. Their evenings are a blur of beautiful...