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Price: £10.99
Pub date: 29/06/06 |
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La Vie en Bleu
Rod Kedward
'Superb … This marvellous book is essential reading'
Guardian
La Vie en Bleu is a highly entertaining and challenging history of a nation and its people, and a compelling exploration of what it is to be French.
Rod Kedward tells the story of France since 1900, from the great events of its history - the two cataclysmic World Wars it endured, the disastrous events in Algeria and the revolt of 1968 - to the multitude of personal stories of the French people and the very different worlds of its countryside and great cities. Definitive and provocative, this is an intriguing depiction of a dynamic nation of profound change and continuity, contrasts and passion. |
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The Fellowship
John Gribbin
'Gribbin's lucid pen and narrative skill make him a leader in the field of popular science writing … highly readable'
Independent on Sunday
They demanded to see the world for themselves - and changed the course of history …
As seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire, another event was also turning the world upside down: the revolution in science. This is the story of how the founding fathers of the Royal Society - from the extravagant 'natural philosopher' Francis Bacon to the polymath, inventor and adventurer Edmund Halley, from the fiery Robert Hooke, whose work was written out of history, to his ambitious rival Isaac Newton - brought about an end to superstition and ignorance, and created a whole new model of the universe. |
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Translated with an introduction and notes by Carol Clark
Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) was one of the great theatrical successes of its time and remains as popular today for its dramatic power and, above all, for its good-natured, passionate and swashbuckling hero.
Carol Clark's energetic translation conveys the exuberant tone of Rostand's original, and is accompanied by an introduction discussing the play's historical context, staging and language. This edition also includes a chronology, further reading and notes. |
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Price: £12.99
Pub date: 01/06/06 |
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Rama the Steadfast
Valmiki
Translated with an introduction and notes by John Brockington and Mary Brockington
Rama the Steadfast was composed in the oral tradition in about the fifth century BC and has been retold over the generations ever since. With its fantastical characters ranging from monsters to apes, a very human hero and its profound moral purpose, it is one of the greatest of all Indian tales.
John Brockington and Mary Brockington's vibrant translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the long Indian tradition of retelling this story, and its authorship, language and settings. This edition also includes further reading, appendices notes and a glossary. |
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Pub date: 01/06/06 |
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Edited by Michael Squires with an introduction by Doris Lessing
One of the most controversial novels in English literature, Lady Chatterley's Lover is an erotically charged and psychologically powerful depiction of adult relationships.
In her introduction, Doris Lessing discusses the influence of Lawrence's sexual politics, his relationship with his wife Frieda and his attitude towards the First World War. Using the complete and restored text of the Cambridge edition, this volume includes a new chronology and further reading by Paul Poplawski. |
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