The Princesse de Cleves (Lafayette Madame de)(Paperback)

The Princesse de Cleves (Lafayette Madame de)(Paperback)

Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared anonymously in 1678--in the heyday of French classicism--it aroused fierce

The Princesse de Cleves (Lafayette Madame de)(Paperback)

Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Cleves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love between the fair, noble Mme de Cleves, who is married to a loyal and faithful man, and the Duc de Nemours, a handsome man most female courtiers find irresistible. Warned by

La princesse de Cleves (La Fayette Marie-Madeleine)(General merchandise)

Lafayette and the American Revolution (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders of the king of France, he was a strong-willed nineteen-year-old who had never set foot on a battlefield. Although the U.S. Congress granted him an honorary commission only out of respect for his title

Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship That Helped Forge Two Nations (Chaffin Tom)(Paperback)

The Korean Mind: Understanding Contemporary Korean Culture (De Mente Boye Lafayette)(Paperback)

Understanding a people and their culture through code words and language. Today, South Korea is an economic, technological and entertainment superpower. How, as a country, did they rebound from war, poverty and political unrest? And how can that success be replicated in other cultures? The answers

The Darker Arts (Muriel Oscar De)(Paperback)

Madame Katerina, Detective 'Nine Nails' McGray's most trusted clairvoyant, hosts a s ance for three of Edinburgh's wealthiest families.The following morning everyone is found dead, with Madame Katerina being the only survivor. When questioned she alleges a tormented spirit killed the families for

Corinne, or Italy (De Stael Madame)(Paperback)

Corrine, or Italy, is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil, and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Stael, the subject of recent feminist rediscovery, weaves discreet political allusion into her romance, and upon its publication

Madame Guyon - Phylis Thompsonová

Životní příběh Madame Jeanne de la Mote Guyon je vskutku pozoruhodný. Tato zdánlivě obyčejná manželka a matka, žijící ve Francii sedmnáctého století, svou hlubokou láskou k Bohu a snahou o bezvýhradný křesťanský život podnítila nečekaně proti sobě opozici v nejvyšších

Madame de Pompadour (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a

Louise de la Valliere (Dumas Alexandre)(Paperback)

Louise de la Valli re is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Set during the reign of Louis XIV and filled with

The Most Holy Trinosophia of the Comte de Saint Germain 1933 (Saint Germain Comte de)(Paperback)

A Voyage to the Moon (Bergerac Cyrano de)(Paperback)

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desired destination using the more scientific means of a rocket-powered craft. After landing, he

The Quiet Light (de Wohl Louis)(Paperback)

The famous novelist de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. He tells the intriguing story of St. Thomas who defied his illustrious, prominent family's ambition for him to have great power in

Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna (Meador Betty de Shong)(Paperback)

Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization now known as Sumer.Each of her hymns confirmed to the

Madame Serpent - (Medici Trilogy) (Plaidy Jean (Novelist))(Paperback / softback)

Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of

Microbe Hunters (de Kruif Paul)(Paperback)

This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world. Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered

The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Melczer William)(Paperback)

'The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela' presents the first complete English translation of Book Five of the Liber Sancti Jacobi or Codex Calixtinus. This twelfth-century guidebook traces the route from southern France to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The medieval Christian

Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu: de Aedibus International (Wirz Heinz)(Paperback)

The name of this firm stands for the three Belgian architects Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu in Ghent. The volume presents some of their interventions to existing building constellations. These are always like surgical procedures that dissect the existing structures and then carefully

Ethics (Spinoza Benedict De)(Paperback)

A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived

That Hair (Pereira de Almeida Djaimilia)(Paperback)

'The story of my curly hair,' says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, 'intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.' Mila is the

On Murder (de Quincey Thomas)(Paperback)

The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head, celebrating and coolly dissecting the

Marx on Money (Brunhoff Suzanne De)(Paperback / softback)

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's classic investigation into Karl Marx's conception of 'the money commodity' shines light on commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as the crystallization of value in its material sense is central to how we understand capitalism and how

Dee (Fergus K. R.)(Paperback / softback)

Bounded by the highest mountains in Britain, the majestic River Dee winds its way through some of Scotland's most celebrated scenery. There is no better way to discover the wildlife, architecture and history of this area of Scotland than to walk. Walking at high or low level, this guide offers 25