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  • Temperaments: Memoirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Other Artists

    par Dan Hofstadter ...
    In these five profiles, four of which originally appeared in the New Yorker, the author evokes the life and work of seven gifted artists. Among those presented, often through lively conversations, are Jean Hélion, Mark Rothko, R.B. Kitaj, and Dennis Creffield. Chief among those portrayed however is Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the great French photographer and photojournalist who, famed for ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Love Affair as a Work of Art

    par Dan Hofstadter ...
    This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how, in the Romantic Era, love affairs, often illicit, were transformed into novels, memoirs, and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Staël, Chateaubriand, George Sand, and Anatole France, who, however, fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for "good ... En savoir plus

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  • Falling Palace

    A Romance of Naples

    par Dan Hofstadter ...
    A portrait of the sun-drenched volcanic city from an American who has lost his heart to the place and to a beguiling Neapolitan woman.In Falling Palace Dan Hofstadter brilliantly reveals Naples, from the dilapidated architectural beauty to the irrepressible theater of everyday life. We witness the centuries-old festivals that regularly crowd the city’s jumbled streets, and eavesdrop on ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $8.99 CAD

  • The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition (Great Discoveries)

    Galileo and the Roman Inquisition

    par Dan Hofstadter ...
    Collections series Great Discoveries
    A cogent portrayal of a turning point in the evolution of the freedom of thought and the beginnings of modern science.Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. Both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein credit him as the first modern scientist. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in the history of the ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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    par Alain De Botton ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

  • The Life and Times of Emile Zola

    Controversy surrounded Zola during his life-time, and controversy has followed him ever since. No other French writer was so violently attacked by contemporaries, none had a more devoted following. This high priest of Naturalism scandalized France by the frankness of his treatment of the seamier side of human nature and electrified the whole of Europe and America by his denunciation of the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Plague

    par Albert Camus ...
    Traduit par Robin Buss ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A story for our, and all, times' GuardianSet in a town consumed by a deadly virus, The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Nausea

    Traduit par Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1

    The Way by Swann's

    par Marcel Proust ...
    Traduit par Lydia Davis ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • What Are You Looking At?

    The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

    par Will Gompertz ...
    For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Life of Picasso III: The Triumphant Years

    1917-1932

    par John Richardson ...
    Collections Livre 3 - A Life of Picasso
    The third volume of Richardson’s magisterial Life of Picasso, a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and visiting Pompei where the antique statuary fuel his obsession with classicism; in ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    Collections series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an ... ... En savoir plus

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