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A François Mauriac Omnibus
$30.00 AUD
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...
Francois Mauriac Omnibus
$35.00 AUD
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...
Mémoires Intérieurs
$20.00 AUD
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...
Memoires Interieurs
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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. In Memoires Interieurs, Nobel Prize-winning French author...
The Inner Presence: (Nouveaux Mémoires Intérieurs): Recollections Of My Spiritual Life
$50.00 AUD
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,...
Lines Of Life
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped and worn; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages detected. Lines of Life is...
The Unknown Sea: (Les Chemins De La Mer)
$15.00 AUD
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...
Maltaverne: Un Adolescent D'Autrefois
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the twilight of a vanished France,...
Therese: Containing Thérèse Desqueyroux, Thérèse Chez Le Docteur, Thérèse À L'Hôtel (From François), La Fin De La Nuit
$15.00 AUD
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...
The Kiss to the Leper
$30.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Therese Desqueyroux
To tie in with the release of a new film adaptation starring Audrey Tautou, a reissue of Fran ois Mauriac's astonishing and daring 1927 novel Ther se Desqueyroux walks free...
The Other De Gaulle: Diaries 1944-1954
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the epicentre of liberated Paris, Claude Mauriac —...
Diaries 1944-1954: The Other De Gaulle
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Maria Cross: Imaginative Patterns In A Group Of Modern Catholic Writers
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Maria Cross stands at the crossroads of...
Chateaubriand
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in the history of French letters have burned as brightly — or as turbulently...
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it look and feel like to be inside the...
Night
First time in Modern Classics Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is...
Night
Published on the 80th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author's birth Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration...
Ma Folie Francaise / My French Folly
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...
Frank Wilmot (Furnley Maurice): A Bibliography and a Criticism
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsAn essential and meticulously composed cornerstone of Australian literary scholarship, Frank Wilmot (Furnley Maurice): A Bibliography and a...
The Coming of Age of Francoise Cocteau
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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...
Woman Of Paris
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...
In Pursuit of Love: A Journey in the Footsteps of Obsession
From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adele Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than...
Paris: Les Livres De Photographie Des Années 1920 Aux Années 1950
$90.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Some wear but otherwise in good condition.Few cities have inspired the photographic imagination quite like Paris, and Paris: Les Livres de Photographie des Années...
Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES , GUARDIAN , TELEGRAPH , TLS , FINANCIAL TIMES , ECONOMIST , NEW STATESMAN , LONDON STANDARD AND WASHINGTON...
Delacroix
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the history of Western art burned as brilliantly — or as controversially — as Eugène...
Paris, City of Dreams: Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation
"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe's readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III,...
Réponses: The Autobiography Of Françoise Sagan
$40.00 AUD
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...
Fair Stood The Wind For France
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the harrowing backdrop of Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War, Fair Stood the Wind for...
Antoine Watteau
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists captured the ineffable beauty of leisure and longing quite like Jean-Antoine Watteau, the French Rococo master whose shimmering canvases defined an era...
Selected Works Of Alfred Jarry
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Stained cover. Creased spine. At the fringes of nineteenth-century French literature, Alfred Jarry stands as one of...
James Tissot
$15.00 AUD
James (actually Jacques-Joseph) Tissot (1836-1902) was an artist between the worlds. During his creative phases in London and Paris, he produced a wide variety of works, ranging from caricatures to...
The Fall Of France: Disaster In The West 1939-1940
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the spring of 1940, the world watched in disbelief as one of Europe's most formidable military powers collapsed in a mere six weeks —...
The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? Most political commentators point to heads of state, such as the Presidency, and other formal institutions of the state....
L'Égypte D'Un Architecte: Ambroise Baudry (1838-1906)
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. French text.At the crossroads of 19th-century European ambition and the ancient grandeur of the Nile, L'Égypte d'un...
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: grazia gunn's copy. Few works in the history of Western art have shattered convention as decisively as Pablo...
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
A fully illustrated catalogue of new work and texts by Sir Grayson Perry to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Wallace Collection in celebration of the artist's 65th birthday. This...
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of
Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services...
Story Of A Vineyard: Chateau Tahbilk
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodNestled in the heart of Victoria's Nagambie Lakes region, Chateau Tahbilk stands as one of Australia's most storied and enduring...
The Marriage Art
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when frank conversation about intimacy within marriage was rare, The Marriage Art by John E....
Nana
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet corrupt underbelly of Second Empire Paris, a city intoxicated by wealth, spectacle, and moral...
Debussy: A Painter in Sound
Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he...