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Shaun Whiteside and Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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'The whistle was blown, and when, like an unexpected deliverance, Belgium opened the scoring with a...
Germinal
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Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's...
H.M.S. Surprise
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of...
Les Fleurs du mal
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Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" marks the intrusion of modernity into the French poetic tradition....
Paris Stories
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In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a...
Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination
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"To explain more is to understand better". This is the mantra by which French philosopher Paul...
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Arthur Symons and Matthew Creasy
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First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of...
The Winnowing Fan: Verse-Essays in Criticism
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This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend...
Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human
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This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar...
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
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SHORTLISTED FOR STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of Britain's most original writers,...