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1	The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/Day more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's accounts of his own experiences in the camps during World War II have become classics of the genre. see all copies from $7.78! new only from $7.78! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume I: 1929-1940 more books like this by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld (Editor), Lois More Overbeck (Editor), George Craig (Editor) add to wishlist The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility. The Cambridge University Press edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett offers for the first time a comprehensive range of letters of one of the ... see all copies from $25.15! new only from $29.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and the Accident more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Wiesel's accounts of his own experiences in the camps during World War II have become classics of the genre. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.79!
4	Night more books like this by Maryam Riess add to wishlist "Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary Of Anne Frank," "Night" awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| SVS
5	Words more books like this by Jean-Paul Sartre add to wishlist After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In "Words", Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Journal of Jules Renard more books like this by Jules Renard, Louise Bogan (Editor), Elizabeth Roget (Editor) add to wishlist Spanning from 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, "The Journal of Jules Renard" is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains largely undiscovered in the United States. Throughout his journal, Renard develops ... see all copies from $10.16! new only from $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Correspondence, 1932-1960 more books like this by Albert Camus, Jean Grenier, Jan F Rigaud (Translator) add to wishlist As a philosophy teacher, mentor, and friend, Jean Grenier (1898-1971) had an enormous influence on the young Albert Camus (1913-1960), who, in fact, acknowledged that Grenier's "Les Iles" had touched the very core of his sensibility and provided him with both a 'terrain for reflection, and a format' that he would later use for his own essays. ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Woman's Story more books like this by Annie Ernaux add to wishlist Published simultaneously with A MAN'S PLACE, this is a fictionalized memoir of Ernaux's mother, who grew up in a working-class family and retained the bluntness and strength of her origins all her life. Her eventual death, of Alzheimer's disease, was preceded by a long and debilitating decline that took its toll on her relatives as well as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, a Love Story more books like this by Claude Francis, Fernande Gontier add to wishlist A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their own lives, and to question the values they had been taught. 16 pages of photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.60! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Helene Cixous: Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing more books like this by Helene Cixous, Calle-Gruber Mi, Mireille Calle-Gruber add to wishlist Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time, Hel D ne Cixous, Rootprints traces Cixous's development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable perspicacity and poetic force are known world-wide. This unique collection speaks with many voices and in ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $40.98!
11 view cover	Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration more books like this by James Knowlson (Editor), Elizabeth Knowlson (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	One Must Also Be Hungarian more books like this by Adam Biro, Catherine Tihanyi (Translator) add to wishlist The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past "and" its future," Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust. But the story of the Jews in Hungary is also one of ... see all copies from $14.05! new only from $14.05! \| first editions
13 view cover	Wartime Writings: 1943-1949 more books like this by Marguerite Duras, Linda Coverdale (Translator) add to wishlist Published for the first time in English, these World War II-era notebooks offer insights into one of the 20th century's most renowned literary figures. Here are the first drafts of her most famous works, the true stories behind "The Lover, The War," and several other classics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life more books like this by Josyane Savigneau, Joan E. Howard (Translator) add to wishlist A biography of Marguerite Yourcenar, one of the most respected writers in the French language. Drawing on letters, diaries and interviews with friends, colleagues and lovers, the text paints a portrait of an artist who lived according to her own, occasionally contrary, terms. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.00! \| first editions
15	Celine: A Biography more books like this by Frederic Vitoux, Jesse Browner (Translator) add to wishlist This definitive biography of Celine won the Prix Goncourt in France. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics more books like this by Helene Cixous add to wishlist These interviews with Helene Cixous offer invaluable insight into her philosophy and criticism. Culled from newspapers, journals, and books, White Ink collects the best of these conversations, which address the major concerns of Cixous's critical work and features two dialogues with twentieth-century intellectuals Michel Foucault and Jacques ... see all copies from $15.61! new only from $24.38! \| SVS
17 view cover	Elie Wiesel: Conversations more books like this by Robert Franciosi (Editor), Elie Wiesel add to wishlist Elie Wiesel has given hundreds of interviews. Yet his fame as a human rights advocate often directs such conversations toward non-literary issues. Indeed, many of Wiesel's questioners barely address the writer's role that has defined him since the 1950s. Unlike previous volumes in which he speaks with interviewers, "Elie Wiesel: Conversations" ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Bataille's Wound more books like this by Michael Greene add to wishlist Bataille's Wound is an uncategorizable literary/philosophical creation presenting the thought and dramatic presence of this central French author. It is by turns a work of fiction, an interpretative compilation of quotations and epigrams, and a composition of original prose and poetry written in the combined spirit of Bataille and Nietzsche. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.82! \| first editions
19 view cover	Saint Exupery: Art, Writings, and Musings more books like this by Nathalie Des Vallieres add to wishlist One of the greatest masters of the illustrated book, Antoine de Saint Exupery has been well known for his artistic and literary talents ever since the publication of The Little Prince in 1943. It is less well known that from childhood he decorated his letters, notebooks, journals, and diaries (and later his manuscripts) with small drawings, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions
20 view cover	Report on Myself more books like this by Gregoire Bouillier, Bruce Benderson (Translator) add to wishlist Distinguished by the same charm and playful prose that helped make "The Mystery Guest" such a cult favorite with readers, "Report on Myself" is the memoir that won Bouillier the French Prix de Flore as well as universal acclaim. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.17! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	An Italian Journey more books like this by Jean Giono, John Cumming (Translator) add to wishlist Giono's account of his travels in Italy deals with not only the sights he saw but why he felt compelled to travel in the first place and how travel is a transformative experience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.78! \| SVS
22 view cover	One Day My Sister Disappeared: A Memoir more books like this by Christine Orban, Gwen Edelman (Translator) add to wishlist Christine Orban's beloved sister Maco died at 31 of a rare blood disorder. But Maco had already endured marriage to a strict Muslim, years of his infidelities, and a divorce that took away her children--and Christine was always sure she died of a broken heart. In this memoir, Orban does her best to come to terms with her sister's sad early death, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
23	Simone de Beauvoir, a Life of Freedom more books like this by Carol Ascher add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism more books like this by Andre Breton add to wishlist The closest Andre Breton has ever come to writing an autobiography, Conversations--based on a series of radio interviews conducted with the founder of Surrealism in 1952--chronicles the entire Surrealist movement as lived from within, tracing the origins and development of Surrealism from the discovery of automatic writing in 1919 to the ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $35.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	The American: A Memoir more books like this by Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Barbara Johnson (Translator) add to wishlist This poignant, taunt, harrowing childhood memoir, already a controversial bestseller in Europe, describes a Frenchman's dark relationship with his abusive American father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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