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Lives Other Than My Own
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 15.99From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrère, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grand-father helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving... more...
Complete Poems
Carcanet 2012; US$ 27.64Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first... more...
The Imaginary Invalid
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself, and whose doctor milks his hypochondria for everything he can get. Their mutual greed and dishonesty lead to their downfall. It was the last play Moliere ever wrote, and he collapsed whilst playing the hypochondriac, shortly before he died. The play originally... more...
Essays
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.99Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally "Attempts") in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, René... more...
Le Cid
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name. It tells the story of Rodrigue and Chimene, whose fathers' feud violently interrupts their love. Though they never disavow their love for one another, revenge is deemed more important to each. Corneille's play sparked much dispute about dramatic method. more...
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99Very loosely based on the life of a French duelist and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac is a play in verse that tells the tale of soldier who is gifted with every imaginable positive attribute -- except that of a handsome appearance. Because of his perceived ugliness (including a disproportionately large nose), Cyrano feels unworthy of the woman he loves... more...
Polyeucte
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99This seventeenth-century drama in five acts was inspired by the tale of Saint Polyeuctus (rendered as 'Polyeucte' in French), a Roman convert to the faith who was martyred in 259 A.D. However, although an imaginatively retold version of the story of St. Polyeuctus comprises some of the plot of the play, Polyeucte also relates metaphorically... more...
The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Volume 11. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...









