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  • The Forbidden Experiment

    The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

    by Roger Shattuck ...
    The true story of the nineteenth century’s so-called “Wild Boy of Aveyron”—an abandoned French child who lived for years alone in the wilderness before being brought under the care of an innovative young physician.“Before dawn on January 9, 1800, a remarkable creature came out of the woods near the village of Saint-Sernin in southern France.” So begins Roger Shattuck’s book about the so-called ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

    A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

    by Roger Shattuck ...
    "Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York TimesFor any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

    One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales. Includes a new translation of the complete text of Pleasures and Days, Proust's only short-story collection, and six tales previously uncollected and never ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Origin of the World

    by Pierre Michon, Roger Shattuck ...
    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon’s luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm.Yvonne. Yvonne. “Everything about her screamed desire…setting something in motion while ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

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  • The Second Sex

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    Translated by Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier ...
    The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —VogueThis unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. ... Read more

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  • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

    by Marcel Proust ...
    "'In Search of Lost Time' is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." —Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman'." —Bengt Holmqvist "Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!" —Virginia Woolf "The greatest fiction ... Read more

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  • Tropic of Cancer

    by Henry Miller ...
    Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ... Read more

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  • Madness and Civilization

    A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Michel Foucault's most admired book is an incisive history of changing attitudes toward mental illness of Western Europe between 1500 and 1800.Madness and Civilization investigates the archeology of madness, tracing shifting perceptions through changes in the culture, laws, politics, philosophy, and medical practices of the West. In the late Middle Ages, insanity was still considered part of ... Read more

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  • Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost ... Read more

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  • Pale Fire

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    Series series Vintage International
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  • The Science of Living (Psychology Revivals)

    by Alfred Adler ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1930 The Science of Living looks at Individual Psychology as a science. Adler discusses the various elements of Individual Psychology and its application to everyday life: including the inferiority complex, the superiority complex and other social aspects, such as, love and marriage, sex and sexuality, children and their education. This is an important book in the history ... Read more

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