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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...

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...

Author: VoltaireBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, London, 1948Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis narrative follows the journey of a naive young man as he experiences...

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...

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...

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...

The first monograph on the contemporary French fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire, published on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Synonymous with an effortless rock and roll style, Zadig &...

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing...

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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...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. An extraordinary gathering of literary voices, Two Centuries of...

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...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of Enlightenment idealism and imperial autocracy stands one of history's most fascinating paradoxes: a coterie of Russian moral...

Living at a time of religious strife and the decline of the intellectual optimism that had begun in the Renaissance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) expressed in his writings both...

Penguin Classics relaunch. In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth,...

'Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress...' - Gianni VersaceFrom Elizabeth Hurley's...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhat does it mean to be truly human, and how did one of history's most radical intellectual movements attempt to...

Author: Tim Blanks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 632 'There comes a moment in one's life or career when in order to evolve, you need to draw a line and...

Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the pen of one of France's most singular and subversive literary voices comes The...

This is the third volume in Lucy Norton's three-volume abridgement and translation of the the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, first published in the 1960s. The court of Louis...

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were...

Tarpagnan, an army captain, has fallen in love with Gabriella Pucci, the mistress of Paris's greatest villain. As Tarpagnan searches the underworld for Gabriella, unknown to him, Grondin is searching...

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...

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...

The Free Drawing School (Ecole royale gratuite de dessin) fulfilled the Enlightenment ideal of an education open to all-rich and poor, male and female - and of an education founded...

Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and by others as a precursor...

Long before humans ventured into outer space, writers spun stories of what might lie in the unknown worlds beyond our planet and speculated about the future. This striking collection features...

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Versailles is the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria...

Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion to Lake Oneida. In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth...

Author: Robert DarntonBinding: HardbackPublished: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work The Forbidden Best-Sellers Of Pre-Revolutionary France uncovers the clandestine...