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“lionel morrison”

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  • Footprints

    A Black Journalist’s Fight Against Apartheid in South Africa and in Exile

    by Lionel Morrison, Liz Morrison ...
    With sharp intellect and warm humor, Lionel Morrison tells the story of the struggle for freedom in South Africa and beyond, revealing the intimate experience of grand geopolitical shiftsApartheid in South Africa was arbitrary and ferocious―its end is widely celebrated. Yet the monumental difficulties faced by the movement for liberation and the sacrifices made by ordinary yet remarkable ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A female portraitist's journey through 18th-century and revolutionary France: art, court society, and self-revelation

    by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Lance Weatherby, Ella Morrison ...
    Translated by Lionel Strachey ...
    From the glitter of Versailles to the hazards of exile, The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun traces an artist's life through the fall of the Ancien Régime and a remade Europe. In polished, conversational prose, she interleaves notes on color, light, and likeness with incisive portraits of sitters and salons from Paris to Naples, Vienna, and St Petersburg. Part travelogue, part apologia, it joins the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    by Francine Du Plessix Gray ...
    A “spellbinding” and “deeply intelligent” historical novel about Marie Antoinette on the eve of the French Revolution (The Washington Post )Through the untold love story between Marie Antoinette and Swedish aristocrat Axel von Fersen, acclaimed author Francine du Plessix Gray weaves history with romance in a captivating novel that also offers a fresh vision of the French Revolution.Paris, 1774. ... Read more

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  • The Rose of Martinique

    A Life of Napoleon's Josephine

    by Andrea Stuart ...
    The acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, the Caribbean-born Creole who became the first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France.One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family's sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole—sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness.Rescued from near starvation, ... Read more

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  • The Human Comedy

    Selected Stories

    Translated by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump ...
    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    **A NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINALDiscover 9 classic short stories by the giant of French literature—whose work inspired Dostoyevsky, Henry James, and Marcel Proust—with this collection showcasing Balzac’s impressive range.**Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth: Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary

    by Various Authors ...
    On the ninth of September, 1888, an unusual event occurred in the princely house of Wittelsbach. Maximilian Joseph, the head of the ducal line of Vorpfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, and his wife Ludovica (Louise), daughter of King Maximilian First of Bavaria and his second wife, Caroline of Baden, celebrated on that day their diamond wedding, both bride and groom having been barely twenty years old ... Read more

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  • The Man in the Red Coat

    by Julian Barnes ...
    From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending—a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. • “A pleasure to read in every way.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' intellectual shopping: a prince, a count, and a commoner ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • A Literary Paris

    Hemingway, Colette, Sedaris, and Others on the Uncommon Lure of the City of Light

    by Jamie Cox Robertson ...
    You don’t have to live in Paris to experience her unique beauty, allure, and enchantment. With this dazzling literary celebration of the City of Light, you can stroll along the Seine with David Sedaris in Me Talk Pretty One Day, sample croissants in a patisserie with M.F.K. Fisher in As They Were, and savor Mona Lisa’s smile at the Louvre with Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad.With fascinating ... Read more

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  • The Story of Versailles

    by Francis Loring Payne ...
    A history of the city of Versailles in France. Versailles was once the capital of France and the Palace of Versailles is considered one of the most beautiful palaces in the world. This is a comprehensive study of many important periods in the history of the city. ... Read more

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  • The Lemoine Affair

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune.This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from ... Read more

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  • His Excellency Eugène Rougon

    by Brian Nelson, Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper échelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugène ... Read more

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  • King of Fashion: The Autobiography of Paul Poiret

    The Autobiography of Paul Poiret

    by Paul Poiret ...
    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Paul Poiret’s autobiography tells the extraordinary story of ... Read more

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