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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : The Strife of Love in a Dream
Francesco Colonna
Hardcover - $57.95
Choice One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999 in a large for ...
The Marquis de Sade Reader
Margaret Crosland
Paperback - $43.95
The Marquis de Sade spent more than half his life in prison, which gave him the excuse to take his revenge on society through evocations of sexual cruelty. Excluded from normal life, he developed an extremist vision of the world through stories, dial ...
Prophecies
Leonardo da Vinci
Hardcover - $24.95
The greatest genius of his age, Leonardo da Vinci was also a prolific writer. Collected here are some of his most remarkable thoughts, sayings, and fables. Fascinated by word play, Leonardo created a series of riddles, cleverly disguised as apocalypt ...
An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Tim Farrant
Paperback - $55.95
Everyone knows something of 19th-century France - or do they? Les Miserables, La Dame aux Camelias and Les Trois Mousquetaires, Balzac and Jules Verne live in the popular consciousness as enduring human documents and cultural icons. Yet the French 19 ...
Great Spanish Literature
Angel Flores
Hardcover - $33.95
Three dual-language books: " Spanish Stories/Cuentos Españ oles," 13 tales, from classics by Cervantes to contemporary tales by Borges; " First Spanish Reader," with works based on the writings of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, and more; and " ...