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Mr. MacNeice has set himself to discuss contemporary poetry in the light of his own experience as student and poet. The first half of the book is devoted to his "case-book" his formal introduction...

Unlike most studies of the thought of the early Church, which have concentrated on the Christian encounter with Hellenism, this investigation of the writings of Cyril of Alexandria reveals the...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in...

169 pp., index. Excellent état.

Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evilDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark...

Text: French

In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations in early modern France. He discusses the strength of kinship and family ties, the structure of...

When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were...

From the dust"In this, the crowning achievement of his career, Professor Halle presents a survey of all basic knowledge. As it unfolds under the reader's eyes, there emerges from it the vision of one...

Catalogo della mostr, organizzata dalla Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, che presenta la collezione Sonnabend. Opere di: J. Johns, R. Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, C. Oldenburg, A. Warhol, R...

From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's Collège (1661-70), the Parisian...