Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “will mcmorran”
Skip side bar filters

  • The 120 Days of Sodom

    Translated by Thomas Wynn, Dr Will McMorran ...
    by Marquis de Sade ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2017 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZEA new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel.**This disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Sensing Violence

    Reading with the Marquis de Sade

    by Will McMorran ...
    What does reading fictional violence do to us as readers? To find out, this provocative and original book turns to the works of an author synonymous with sexual violence: the Marquis de Sade. Drawing on psychology, cognitive literary studies, and empirical research, it argues that reading is a fundamentally embodied act – and one that implicates us far more than we might like to think in fictional ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Marquise de Gange

    by The Marquis de Sade ...
    Translated by Will McMorran ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!' It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse, Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in Provence, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Story of Sex

    A Graphic History Through the Ages

    by Philippe Brenot ...
    Translated by Will McMorran ...
    The first graphic history of sex chronicles sexuality and human intimacy through the ages, from our primate pasts to our robotic futures.Humans have had sex on the brain since pre-civilization either for pleasure, power, revenge, a desire for children, or simply because it isn't allowed. Today, sex is all around us but it's rarely explained and almost never taught. In The Story of Sex, sexologist ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

    From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

    by Various ...
    Translated by Siân Reynolds, David Bellos, Christine Donougher, Ros Schwartz, Dr Will McMorran ...
    'Beautiful and deep ... **a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'F**ood for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for redisco... ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Sade's Sensibilities

    by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, Eliane Robert Moraes, Christopher C. Nagle, John Phillips, Caroline Warman, Courtney Wennerstrom ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Sade’s Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism, nihilism, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Inn and the Traveller

    Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel

    by Will McMorran ...
    "In the landscape of the early modern European comic novel the inn often features as a monument to digression - the perfect setting for chance encounters with strangers who always have a story to tell. This wide-ranging comparative study explores the special part played by the inn, tracing the progress of a succession of wayward heroes and narrators in five canonical texts: Cervantes's ""Don ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2

    From Colette to Marie NDiaye

    Edited by Patrick McGuinness ...
    'Beautiful and deep ... **a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times***A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Story of the Eye

    by Georges Bataille ...
    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Lolita

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a controversial and critically acclaimed novel that tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature professor who becomes obsessed with his twelve-year-old stepdaughter, Dolores Haze. Humbert narrates the novel in the first person, and his unreliable perspective is one of the novel's most striking features.Humbert is a complex and deeply flawed character. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

    by Georges Bataille ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self. My Mother is a frank and intense depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Madame Edwarda is ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Literature and Evil

    by Georges Bataille ...
    Translated by Alastair Hamilton ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD