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Selected Writings On Art And Literature (P. charvet Charles-pierre Baudelaire)
Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.
€ 19,⁹⁵
The Painter Of Modern Life (Charles-pierre Baudelaire)
Explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist. This book describes the painter who expresses most fully the drama of modern life.
€ 8,¹⁰
The Tale Of Tales (Giambattista Basile)
Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman.
€ 17,³⁰
On Love And Barley (Matsuo Basho)
Presents the poems that combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation and evoke the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the…
€ 10,⁶⁵
The Narrow Road To The Deep North And Other Travel Sketches (Matsuo Basho)
Presents travel writings which chronicle the author's perilous journeys through Japan and also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.
€ 10,⁶⁵
Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
€ 9,³⁰
The Sad End Of Policarpo Quaresma (Lima Barreto)
Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is…
€ 13,³⁰
Early Greek Philosophy (Jonathan Barnes)
This reader presents a selection of important pre-Socratic writings. Extracts range from Democritus' atomic theory of matter to Pythagorean insights and Heraclitus' epigrams - all part of a revolution in human thought which relied…
€ 13,³⁰
Lost Illusions (Herbert hunt Honoré De Balzac)
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century.
€ 19,⁹⁵
The Wild Ass's Skin (Honoré De Balzac)
Concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, this novel is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.
€ 15,⁹⁵
Eugenie Grandet (Honoré De Balzac)
In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only…
€ 13,³⁰
The Black Sheep (Honoré De Balzac)
Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after…
€ 18,⁶⁰