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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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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...

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One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and...

The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from our hugely successful series: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates; Bernard Williams on Plato; John Cottingham on...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. Tears and chips along folds...

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...

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...

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...

One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning...

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....

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...

Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...

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...

Rousseau's final work and meditation After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in...

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Author: R.F. Kuang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy'...

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: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...

Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA simmering portrait of ambition, loyalty, and moral collapse, Like Men Betrayed is a taut and psychologically charged novel set...

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...

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and...

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of political philosophy and social commentary, Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun presents...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II -a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jan Fabel returns to the Hamburg murder squad to track down a horrifying killer. Calling all fans of Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Ian Rankin - this blood-curdling and hypnotically...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A delicious cornucopia of classic French cookery delivered with aplomb.' - Grace Dent 'A stunning debut book! An irresistible combination of culinary cleverness, boundless passion...