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Product Description: Proudly part of the New Directions Poetry Pamphlets, a collection of Russian masterpieces Peter France writes in his foreword: “I have always been conscious that Mandelstam was an outstanding figure, arguably the outstanding Russian poet of the twentieth century...read more
By Peter France (trans)

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9780811222907 | New Directions, June 25, 2014, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Proudly part of the New Directions Poetry Pamphlets, a collection of Russian masterpieces Peter France writes in his foreword: “I have always been conscious that Mandelstam was an outstanding figure, arguably the outstanding Russian poet of the twentieth century.

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A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. This ideal covered not just polite manners, but all the "civilized" norms of society and culture, as opposed to elements considered childish, irrational, savage or vulgar. Professor France shows how interpenetration and compromise between polite and rude, tame and wild, are central features of classical writings, arguing that polite society needed and desired its opposite.

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9780521370707 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $149.99 | About this edition: A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia.

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9780521029865 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2006), cover price $54.99

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Product Description: "Enlightenment" and "Emancipation" as separate issues have received much critical attention, but the complicated interaction of these two great shaping forces of modernity has never been scrutinized in depth. The Enlightenment has been represented in radically opposing ways: on the one hand, as the unshackling of the chains of superstition, custom, and usurped authority; on the other hand, in the Romantic period, but also more recently, as what Michel Foucault termed "the grate confinement," in which "mind-forged manacles" imprison the free and irrational spirit...read more
By Peter France (editor) and Susan Manning (editor)

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9780838756195 | Bucknell Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $51.50 | About this edition: "Enlightenment" and "Emancipation" as separate issues have received much critical attention, but the complicated interaction of these two great shaping forces of modernity has never been scrutinized in depth.

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By Peter France (editor), Stuart Gillespie (editor) and Kenneth Haynes (editor)

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9780199246236 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 27, 2006, cover price $270.00

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By Peter France (editor) and William St. Clair (editor)

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9780197262696 | British Academy, April 3, 2003, cover price $99.00

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9780197263181 | British Academy, December 30, 2004, cover price $65.00

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The author of Hermits: The Insights of Solitude describes how a journey to the Greek island of Patmos led to a close encounter with the island's pervasive spirituality, its eccentric inhabitants, and its remarkable history and how he rediscovered the deep-rooted religious beliefs of Orthodox Christianity. Reprint.

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9780871138507 | 1 edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, June 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author describes how a journey to the Greek island of Patmos led to a close encounter with the island's pervasive spirituality, its eccentric inhabitants, and its remarkable history and how he rediscovered the deep-rooted religious beliefs of Orthodox Christianity.

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9780802140609 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author of Hermits: The Insights of Solitude describes how a journey to the Greek island of Patmos led to a close encounter with the island's pervasive spirituality, its eccentric inhabitants, and its remarkable history and how he rediscovered the deep-rooted religious beliefs of Orthodox Christianity.

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9780811215367 | New Directions, April 1, 2003, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: In an inspirational study, the author of Greek as a Treat traces the history of hermits, from the Greek Cynics, to the Desert Fathers, to more modern seekers of solitude, including Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and American poet Robert Lax. 15,000 first printing."

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9780312155469 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of hermits, from the Greek Cynics, to the Desert Fathers, to more modern seekers of solitude, including Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and American poet Robert Lax
9780788197857 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In an inspirational study, the author of Greek as a Treat traces the history of hermits, from the Greek Cynics, to the Desert Fathers, to more modern seekers of solitude, including Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and American poet Robert Lax.

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9780756754631 | Reprint edition (Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2002), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In an inspirational study, the author of Greek as a Treat traces the history of hermits, from the Greek Cynics, to the Desert Fathers, to more modern seekers of solitude, including Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and American poet Robert Lax.
9780312194635 | Griffin, December 1, 1998, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of hermits, from the Greek Cynics, to the Desert Fathers, to more modern seekers of solitude, including Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and American poet Robert Lax

By Peter France (editor)

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9780198183594 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 11, 2000, cover price $125.00

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9780199247844 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 13, 2001, cover price $83.00

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9780810115408 | Bilingual edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: This is a rediscovery of a people who for centuries were thought to have known best how to live. In art, science, medicine, politics, philosophy, sport, drama and history the Greeks invented new ideas and set standards of beauty and excellence which have influenced and inspired the world and which in many cases have never been surpassed...read more

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9780140238228 | Penguin USA, July 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This is a rediscovery of a people who for centuries were thought to have known best how to live.

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Surveys literature in French from all over the world, identifying writers from many countries, intellectual and cultural movements, and literary and theatrical genres
By Peter France (editor)

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9780198661252 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 4, 1995, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Surveys literature in French from all over the world, identifying writers from many countries, intellectual and cultural movements, and literary and theatrical genres

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Product Description: Concentrating on the changing nature and function of poetry in France from the High Middle Ages to the present, this work discusses subjects including the frontiers of prose and verse, the question of inspiration and imagination, and the figure of the poet as seer, clown, solitary explorer and educator...read more
By Keith Aspley and Peter France (editor)

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9780748603350 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: Concentrating on the changing nature and function of poetry in France from the High Middle Ages to the present, this work discusses subjects including the frontiers of prose and verse, the question of inspiration and imagination, and the figure of the poet as seer, clown, solitary explorer and educator.

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Poems by the modern Russian author reflect his faith in love and life and examine ethical and religious themes

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9780140184662 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1992), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Poems by the modern Russian author reflect his faith in love and life and examine ethical and religious themes

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Product Description: History, archaeology. Blue cloth covers very nice, corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Ddust jacket also very nice, top edge curled. Interior clean and tight, top edge dusty.

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9780712621021 | Barrie & Jenkins, March 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: History, archaeology.

Product Description: An anthology of translations made by Scots or residents of Scotland over the last century. Translators include Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Garioch, Edwin Morgan and Douglas Dunn while the poets range from Virgil, Giuseppe Belli, Mayakovsky, Blok and Brecht.

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9780852246245 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: An anthology of translations made by Scots or residents of Scotland over the last century.

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9780852246252 | Reprint edition (Edinburgh Univ Pr, November 1, 1990), cover price $35.50 | About this edition: An anthology of translations made by Scots or residents of Scotland over the last century.

Product Description: This new textbook series is ambitious in scope. It will provide concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521328036 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This new textbook series is ambitious in scope.

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9780521315005 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: This new textbook series is ambitious in scope.

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Describes the characteristics and behavior of animals mentioned in the Scriptures, and discusses the significance of each creature

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9780709937371 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1986, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Describes the characteristics and behavior of animals mentioned in the Scriptures, and discusses the significance of each creature

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