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F. Scott Fitzgerald began composing Tender Is the Night in the summer of 1925, but he struggled with the novel and reworked it intensively over the ... More

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This is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of "Tender is the Night" published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special ... More

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Poststructuralist ethics and modern hermeneutics are both preoccupied with the same fundamental question: is it possible to achieve a genuine ... More

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Through readings of works by Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, David Marshall provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century ... More

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Issues in 2011 will include a special issue on Gilbert Sorrentino s Mulligan Stew, and a celebration of Flann O Brien s centenary, dates TBD.

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'It's only after our death that we shall really be able to hear'. The measured tone of hopeless nihilism that pervades "The Counterfeiters" quickly ... More

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A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a new and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. >

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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer examines how writers as diverse as Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Challe discuss the social ... More

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The notions of virtue and vice are essential components of the Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were called into question, ... More

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Most people want to be able to make valid moral judgments and to respect the ethical values of other cultural groups. Taking Jean Giraudoux's play ... More

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"Turning to Earth" offers a window into the heart of environmental change, moving beyond technological advances and charting the course by which ... More

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First published in 1932, "Journey to the End of the Night" is regarded as Celine's masterpiece. It is told in the first person and is based on his ... More

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One of Zola's most fascinating and exciting novels.

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This controversial novel, set in the art world of Paris, has been read as an attack on the Impressionist painters who had been Zola's friends

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Diderot's TheNun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel ... More

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Colette herself considered "The Pure and the Impure" her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of ... More

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On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes ... More

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This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who ... More

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Denis Diderot (1713-1784), ne a Langres, est un ecrivain, philosophe et encyclopediste francais. Diderot fut un des grands animateurs intellectuels ... More

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La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of ... More

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I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it. - Choderlos de Laclos A great ... More

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Cora Sandel was one of the most important Scandinavian writers of the 20th century and this is the second volume in her richly acclaimed Alberta ... More

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