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  • Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

    by Eric Karpeles ...
    A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world.Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Lost Time

    Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

    by Jozef Czapski ...
    Translated by Eric Karpeles ...
    The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II.During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • On Reading

    by Marcel Proust, John Ruskin ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    Series series On Series
    "To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Proust's Overcoat

    The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust

    by Lorenza Foschini ...
    Translated by Eric Karpeles ...
    "A rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection that is heartbreaking as well as thrilling."—Michael Ondaatje, author of The English PatientIn the tradition of Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman comes Proust's Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini—the charming, endlessly intriguing story of a collector's obsessive search for the personal effects of legendary author Marcel Proust. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Getting Lost

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomatGetting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but ... Read more

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  • How Proust Can Change Your Life

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.Who ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Henri Pick

    by David Foenkinos ...
    Translated by Sam Taylor ...
    Series series Walter Presents
    The delightful first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4's Walter Presents: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of booksIn the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she ... Read more

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  • How to Take Your Time

    from How Proust Can Change Your Life

    by Alain De Botton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Curiously practical—this no-nonsense blend of literary biography and self-help unravels how interesting life can be if only you could resist the impulse to rush through the mundane rituals of modern life. Every morning, Marcel Proust sipped his two cups of strong coffee with milk, ate a croissant from one boulangerie, dunking it in his coffee as he slowly read the day’s paper with great care ... Read more

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  • Renoir's Dancer

    The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

    by Catherine Hewitt ...
    Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating façade lay a closely-guarded secret.Suzanne was born into poverty in rural ... Read more

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  • The Last Love of George Sand

    A Literary Biography

    by Evelyne Bloch-Dano ...
    George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver ... Read more

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    From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.He was a leader of the modernist movement that sought to create better living conditions and a better society ... Read more

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