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  • Monsieur Teste

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 6

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Jackson Mathews ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousnessPaul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is Monsieur Teste. Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry’s only novel is a profoundly ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • History and Politics

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 10

    by Paul Valéry, François Valéry ...
    Translated by Denise Folliot, Jackson Mathews ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry writings on politics and international affairsPaul Valéry was deeply interested in politics and actively involved in international affairs as a spokesperson for the League of Nations and as France’s representative to two of the League’s bodies—the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation and the Permanent Committee on Arts and Letters. This volume presents some sixty of Valéry ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Moi

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 15

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Marthiel Mathews, Jackson Mathews ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry’s autobiographical writingsMoi presents a selection of Paul Valéry’s writings that portray his inner life as an artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valéry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The volume also contains selections from the Valéry-Gide and Valéry ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Idée Fixe

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 5

    by Paul Valéry, Jackson Mathews ...
    Translated by David Paul ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    An informal dialogue of ideas in which Valéry paints a witty portrait of himselfOffhand, personal, and amusing, Paul Valéry’s Idée Fixe is an informal imaginative dialogue of ideas in which two men vacationing at the sea seek refuge from boredom by engaging in intellectual banter about human nature, the mind, and the haphazard relationship between humans and the world. Since the first-person ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Flowers of Evil

    A Selection

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Christopher Mattison ...
    Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere.The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.Flowers of Evil: A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Philosopher Without Faith

    by René Marill-Albérès ...
    Professor Albérès in this well-ordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialism—anguish, nausea, hypocrisy, lucidity, consciousness, conformity, commitment, ethical values, situation, etc.Translated from the French by Wade Baskin. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paratexts

    Thresholds of Interpretation

    by Gerard Genette ...
    Translated by Jane E. Lewin ...
    Series Book 20 - Literature, Culture, Theory
    Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being

    by Simone Weil ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The Need for Roots, her most famous work, she argued ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Poetics of Space

    by Gaston Bachelard ...
    Translated by Maria Jolas ...
    A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin ClassicsSince its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rules

    A Short History of What We Live By

    by Lorraine Daston ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

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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

    $8.99 USD

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  • Clear and Simple as the Truth

    Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition

    by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner ...
    For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are intellectual equals, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD