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Philosophy in the Boudoir
Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions
Theory has drawn to the study of literature many distinct fields; but it has also now widened its brief substantially to include many hitherto non-literary issues. To interpret the "sign"...
Nausea: Popular Penguins
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern...
The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...
Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965
In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples three-dimensional objects issued in edition to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and movement, Edition MAT...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi
Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...
Angel of the Mountains: The Curious Life of Charly Gaul, Cycling's
'Maunder's book is more than just a biography of the rise and fall of a complicated man . . . It is also a critique of the damage that myth-making...
The Songs of Maldoror
Le Comte de Lautreamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Ducasse (1846-70), a Uruguayan-born French writer and poet whose only surviving major work of fiction, Les Chants de Maldoror,...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi
Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...
Letter to D: A Love Story
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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919
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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919 A wide-ranging memoir and biography box — major literary lives of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Archibald MacLeish; Naipaul's India: A Million Mutinies...
The Cloud Sketcher
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Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men
Discover Nero Wolfe--one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, created by the grand master of the mystery form, Rex Stout. Now the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth returns in...
Living With Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945-51
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA rare and intimate window into the private world of one of the twentieth century's most controversial intellectuals, Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters...
Through Their Eyes
Author: Amanda Deed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 190 From Noah's Flood to the imprisonment of Paul the Apostle and everything in between, come on a journey through Bible times....
Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew
Author: Susan Fletcher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the...
Blindness & Insight: Essays In The Rhetoric Of Contemporary Criticism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of literary theory and philosophical inquiry, Blindness & Insight stands as one of the most...
Through Their Eyes
Author: Amanda Deed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 190 From Noah's Flood to the imprisonment of Paul the Apostle and everything in between, come on a journey through Bible times....
Martin Scorsese: A Journey
Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a...
Sir Charles Lilley: Premier 1868-1870 and Second Chief Justice 1879-1893 of Queensland
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