Product Description: THE PLAGUE, which won the Prix des Critiques in 1947, is considered by many to be the author's finest book. It has been described as 'a metaphysical novel the machinery of which can be compared to a Sophoclean tragedy. The plague in question afflicted Oran in the 1940'2; and on one plane the book is a straightforward narrative...read more

Iconoclastic study of the meanings of art in which the author designs a new set of categories for the artistic process and views artists and their work from a unique point of view (view table of contents)

Product Description: The terrible floods of 1953 awoke London and Lononers to the dangers they faced from the Thames. "The Thames Barrier" is an account of the history, planning and construction of the barrier. The authors record the problems and hazards and the strategems used to overcome them.

When fishing-boat captain Pierre Canut is arrested for murder, his shy twin, Charles, determines to uncover the truth and discovers a deadly tale of horror at sea and of grim consequences for the fighting port of Fecamp

After the death of Oscar Donadieu, a wealthy shipbuilder and tyrannical patriarch, his family--oldest son Michel, wife, Eva, and daughter Martine--begins to disintegrate, a process enhanced by the arrival of ambitious, angry Phillipe Dargens

Product Description: Stuart Gilbert's friendship with James Joyce began in Paris in 1927 after Gilbert read several pages from a forthcoming French translation of Ulysses in the window of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company book shop and went in to tell Beach that the translation was poorly done...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Brings together a collection of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's novels, short stories, and essays, including The Plague, a tale of survival and resilience in the face of a devastating epidemic, and The Fall, in which a French lawyer makes an astonishing confession. 15,000 first printing.

Known as a respectable family man, Kees Popinga is the managing clerk of a reputed shipping firm. But when the company collapses under dubious circumstances, taking all his money with it, something snaps in Popinga's mind. From the shell of this model citizen emerges a calculating paranoiac, capable of random acts of violence - even murder.

Product Description: This Squid Ink Classic edition of The Stranger includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.