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  • The Painter of Modern Life

    by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire ...
    Translated by P. E. Charvet ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

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  • Footsteps

    by Richard Holmes ...
    Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Love

    by Stendhal ...
    Translated by Gilbert Sale, Suzanne Sale ...
    In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a ... Read more

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  • Bruges-la-Morte

    by Georges Rodenbach ...
    Dedalus should be treasured: a small independent publisher that regularly produces works of European genius at which the behemoths wouldn't sniff. If the corporations did care to look at this new work, they would find, on the surface, a precursor to W G Sebald, a Symbolist vision of the city that lays the way for Aragon and Joyce, and a macabre story of obsessive love and transfiguring horror that ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Days of Reading

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by John Sturrock ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • A Journey Around My Room

    by Xavier De Maistre ...
    Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer uses his imagination to travel around his room, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having to travel to exotic locations. Contains a foreword by Alain de Botton ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • Voyage Around My Room

    by Xavier de Maistre, Joseph de Maistre ...
    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
    A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reachIn 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Autumn Leaves

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Elsie Pell ...
    This collection of reflective essays forms a "spiritual autobiography" of André Gide, a key figure of French lettersAndré Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal observations in this collection of essays. Gide's reflections and commentary masterfully showcase his delicate writing style and evocative sensibility, yielding new insights on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Documents of the 1913 Armory Show: The Electrifying Moment of Modern Art's American Debut

    by Kenyon Cox,Arthur B. Davies,Élie Faure ...
    Collected here are the original publications from one of the most important exhibitions in the history of American art -- the 1913 Armory Show. Opening on February 17, 1913, in New York and traveling to Chicago and Boston, the Armory Show was meant to be a simple exhibition of the new abstract and cubist art coming out of Europe. What it ultimately became was a sprawling showcase of some of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Along the Road

    Notes and Essays of a Tourist

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    Witty and "enchanting" reflections on the experience of travel, with a focus on art, music, and literature, by the author of Brave New World ( The Spectator).One of the most renowned and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley produced not only dystopian fiction like Brave New World and philosophical memoirs like The Doors of Perception, but also insightful travel writing. Here, ... Read more

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  • The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist

    by Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran ...
    The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist aims to teach the reader how to memorise things like form and colour composition so that they may draw and paint from memory alone.This fantastic guide is highly recommended for all artists, and it would make for a worthy addition to allied collections.The contents include:Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Business of Living

    Diaries 1935-1950

    by Cesare Pavese ...
    On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own life. Shortly before his death, he methodically destroyed all his private papers. His diary is all that remains and for this the contemporary reader can be grateful. Contemporary speculation ... Read more

    $65.99 USD