2069 results for '"Napias, Jean-Christophe'

For the first time in a deluxe hardcover edition, three eerily powerful novels by a midcentury master of social satire and psychological portraitureJean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto...

An affordable, compact primer on the artist who drastically shifted the course of late 20th-century artThis reader provides a concise introduction to the widely popular yet oft-misunderstood artist...

Le 2 avril 1998, Maurice Papon, ancien haut fonctionnaire vychiste devenu ministre gaulliste, a été reconnu coupable de " complicité de crimes contre l'humanité " et condamné à dix ans de réclusion...

A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.A classic of...

The Tragedy of King Christophe (1963, revised 1970) is recognized as the Martiniquan writer and activist Aime Cesaire’s greatest play. Set in the period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination...

Briefly traces the life of the French dramatist, analyzes Genet's plays and their major themes, and assesses his contributions to the theater

Christopher White. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. Lxxiii-lxxxv.

Seventeen-year-old Jean, a troubled Jewish boy caught in the countercultural swirl of 1970s London, arrives at Compton Manor, a rural alternative boarding school for boys with "problems." Dyslexic,...

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in...

When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was isolated in many ways from the rest of the Old World and Europeans did not even know that the world of the Western Hemisphere existed...

By Christopher Colclough And Stephen Mccarthy. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [274]-287.

“Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had a son named Geoffrey Nutter?”–John YauBearing the visionary inheritance of ancient Chinese poets and early...

On 29 March 1991, shortly after the cessation of hostilities in the Gulf War, Jean Baudrillard published an article entitled "The Gulf War has not taken place", in which he argued that "the true...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the...

Christopher Wilmarth delighted the world with light-filled sculptures of glass and steel that were deeply poetic in their moods and extraordinarily rich in their modernist heritage. But in 1987, at...

In this book, Professor Christopher Coker presents an original and controversial thesis about the future of war.Argues that the biotechnology revolution has given war a new lease of life.Draws on...

Don’t miss the eagerly anticipated epic new fantasy from Christopher Paolini—Murtagh!New magic and new threats take flight in Book Two of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings!...

Don’t miss the eagerly anticipated epic new fantasy from Christopher Paolini—Murtagh!The astonishing, masterful conclusion to the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! The New...