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Essential Novelists - Alain-René Lesage

european picaresque

By: Alain-René Lesage,August Nemo

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Essential Novelists - Alain-René Lesage

european picaresque

By: Alain-René Lesage,August Nemo

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Alain-René Lesage which are The Devil on Two Sticks and The Adventures of Gil Blas. The French novelist and playwright Alain-René Lesage created a vision of his transitional epoch as rich in good humor as in moral failings. Novels selected for this book: - The Devil on Two Sticks - The Adventures of Gil BlasThis is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Tacet Books

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3967993035

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9783967993035

Monsieur de Saint-George

Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary: A Legendary Life Rediscovered

By: Alain Guédé

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Monsieur de Saint-George

Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary: A Legendary Life Rediscovered

By: Alain Guédé

The first full biography of one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century Europe, known in his time as the "Black Mozart" Virtually forgotten until now, his life is the stuff of legend. Born in 1739 in Guadeloupe to a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the doomed court of Louis XVI, and, most of all, a virtuosic musician. A violinist, he directed the Olympic Society of Concerts, which was considered the finest in Europe in an age of great musicians, including Haydn, from whom he commissioned a symphony, and Mozart, to whom he was often compared. He also became the first Freemason of color, embracing the French Revolution with the belief that it would end the racism against which-despite his illustrious achievements-he struggled his whole life. This is the life of Joseph Bologne, known variously as Monsieur de Saint-George, the "Black Mozart," and, because of his origins, "the American." Alain Guédé offers a fascinating account of this extraordinary individual, whose musical compositions are at long last being revived and whose story will never again be forgotten.

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339

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Picador

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1250091489

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9781250091482

More Things Than are Dreamt of

Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror, from Mary Shelley to Stephen King, in Literature and Film

By: Alain Silver

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More Things Than are Dreamt of

Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror, from Mary Shelley to Stephen King, in Literature and Film

By: Alain Silver

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238

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879101776

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9780879101770

The End

A Conversation

By: Alain Badiou,Giovanbattista Tusa

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The End

A Conversation

By: Alain Badiou,Giovanbattista Tusa

The notion of ‘the end’ has long occupied philosophical thought. In light of the horrors of the twentieth century, some writers have gone so far as to declare the end of philosophy itself, emphasizing the impossibility of thinking after Auschwitz. In this book the distinguished philosopher Alain Badiou, in dialogue with Giovanbattista Tusa, argues that we must renounce ‘the pathos of completion’ and continue to think philosophically. To accept the atrocities of the twentieth century as marking the end of philosophy is intolerable precisely because it buys into the totalizing doctrines of the perpetrators. Badiou contends that philosophical thinking is needed now more than ever to counter the totalizing effects of globalized capitalism, which prescribes no objective for human life other than integration into its system, giving rise to a widespread sense of hopelessness and nihilism. This book will appeal to the many followers of Badiou’s work and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and radical political theory.

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159

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509538135

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9781509538133

The Immobile Empire

By: Alain Peyrefitte

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The Immobile Empire

By: Alain Peyrefitte

In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The inability to develop a trade relation would have enormous consequences for future relations between China and the West. Peyrefitte’s vivid narrative of this fascinating encounter is based on extraordinary source materials from each side—including the charming and candid diary of Thomas Staunton, the son of one of Macartney’s aides. An example of history at its finest, The Immobile Empire recaptures the extraordinary experience of two great empires in collision, sizing each other up for the first time.

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690

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Vintage

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0345803957

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9780345803955

The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Alain Drouard

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The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

By: Alain Drouard

The industrialization of food preservation and processing has been a dramatic development across Europe during modern times. This book sets out its story from the beginning of the nineteenth century when preservation of food from one harvest to another was essential to prevent hunger and even famine. Population growth and urbanization depended upon a break out from the ’biological ancien regime’ in which hunger was an ever-present threat. The application of mass production techniques by the food industries was essential to the modernization of Europe. From the mid-nineteenth century the development of food industries followed a marked regional pattern. After an initial growth in north-west Europe, the spread towards south-east Europe was slowed by social, cultural and political constraints. This was notable in the post-Second World War era. The picture of change in this volume is presented by case studies of countries ranging from the United Kingdom in the west to Romania in the east. All illustrate the role of food industries in creating new products that expanded the traditional cereal-based diet of pre-industrial Europe. Industrially preserved and processed foods provided new flavours and appetizing novelties which led to brand names recognized by consumers everywhere. Product marketing and advertising became fundamental to modern food retailing so that Europe’s largest food producers, Danone, Nestlé and Unilever, are numbered amongst the world’s biggest companies.

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285

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Routledge

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1317031547

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9781317031543

Representation and Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems

By: Alain Bensoussan,Giuseppe Da Prato,Michel C. Delfour,Sanjoy K. Mitter

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Representation and Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems

By: Alain Bensoussan,Giuseppe Da Prato,Michel C. Delfour,Sanjoy K. Mitter

This unified, revised second edition of a two-volume set is a self-contained account of quadratic cost optimal control for a large class of infinite-dimensional systems. The original editions received outstanding reviews, yet this new edition is more concise and self-contained. New material has been added to reflect the growth in the field over the past decade. There is a unique chapter on semigroup theory of linear operators that brings together advanced concepts and techniques which are usually treated independently. The material on delay systems and structural operators has not yet appeared anywhere in book form.

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589

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0817645810

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9780817645816

The Way to the Labyrinth

Memories of East and West

By: Alain Daniélou

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The Way to the Labyrinth

Memories of East and West

By: Alain Daniélou

An authority on Hinduism and renowned for his directorship of the Institute of Comparative Music Studies in Berlin and Venice, Alain Daniélou is also an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian vînâ, painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth--as vivid, uninhibited, and wide-ranging a memoir as one is ever likely to encounter, now translated and published in English for the first time. Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family--his mother an ardent Catholic, his father an anticlerical leftwing politician, his older brother a cardinal--Daniélou spent a solitary childhood. Escaping from his family milieu, he went to Paris, where he fell in with avant-garde, bohemian, sexually liberated circles, among whose luminaries were Cocteau, Diaghilev, Max Jacob, and Maurice Sachs. But however fervently he plunged into various activities, he felt some other destiny awaited him. After a number of journeys, some of them highly adventurous, he found his real home in India. He spent twenty years there, fifteen of them in Benares on the banks of the Ganges. There he immersed himself in the study of Sanskrit, Hindu philosophy, music, and the art of the ancient temples of Northern India, and converted to the Hindu religion. But times changed, and soon after India gained its independence, he returned to live again in Europe and devoted much of his great energy to the encouragement of traditional musics from around the world.

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364

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210146

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9780811210140

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

Vol. III

By: Alain-René Le Sage

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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

Vol. III

By: Alain-René Le Sage

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385422329

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9783385422322

What Does a Jew Want?

On Binationalism and Other Specters

By: Udi Aloni,Slavoj Zizek,Alain Badiou,Judith Butler

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What Does a Jew Want?

On Binationalism and Other Specters

By: Udi Aloni,Slavoj Zizek,Alain Badiou,Judith Butler

In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians dare to walk together toward a joint Israel-Palestine? Through a collage of meditation, interview, diary, and essay, Aloni and his interlocutors present a personal, intellectual, and altogether provocative account rich with the insights of philosophy and critical theory. They ultimately foresee the emergence of a binational Israeli-Palestinian state, incorporating the work of Walter Benjamin, Edward Said, and Jewish theology to recast the conflict in secular theological terms.

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Columbia University Press

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0231157584

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9780231157582

Status Anxiety

By: Alain De Botton

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Status Anxiety

By: Alain De Botton

“There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.

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Vintage

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0307491331

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9780307491336

The Foul and the Fragrant

Odor and the French Social Imagination

By: Alain Corbin

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The Foul and the Fragrant

Odor and the French Social Imagination

By: Alain Corbin

In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Harvard University Press

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0674311760

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9780674311763

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Essential Novelists - Alain-René Lesage

Essential Novelists - Alain-René Lesage

Monsieur de Saint-George

Monsieur de Saint-George

More Things Than are Dreamt of

More Things Than are Dreamt of

The End

The End

The Immobile Empire

The Immobile Empire

The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

The Food Industries of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Representation and Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems

Representation and Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems

The Way to the Labyrinth

The Way to the Labyrinth

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

What Does a Jew Want?

What Does a Jew Want?

Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety

The Foul and the Fragrant

The Foul and the Fragrant

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