Product Description: Italian passion––"the passion that seeks its own satisfaction, and not to give one’s neighbor an enhanced idea of oneself"––is the life-blood of Stendhal’s Three Italian Chronicles. Gathered here are three long-out-of-print stories animated by life-and-death romances and sensational crimes...read more

Product Description: In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.

A story of passion and political intrigue in which the young and impulsive Fabrizzio finds himself caught between the love of two women and the wars of their aristocratic factions. 'The Charterhouse of Parma' is a study of disillusion and a testament to Stendhal's love-affair with Italy.

A revised version of the Scott Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation of Proust - a new edition of the classic text in six volumes. The book includes new material which has been incorporated in the French Pleiade edition, and which up to this time has not been available to the English reader.

Product Description: Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language...read more

A guide to seeing Scotland by car collects twenty-five itineraries with directions, maps, scenic side trips, and historic attractions. (view table of contents)

The narrator recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine

Product Description: Originally published in Italian in 1915, Shoot! is one of the first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian camera operator Serafino Gubbio, Shoot! documents the infancy of film in Europe—complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects-—and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens...read more

Product Description: Swann's Way

Product Description: Remembrance of Things Past. The Sweet Cheat Gone. Marcel Proust. Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. The bonds that unite another person to ourself exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone...read more

Product Description: Volume 1 of the great French novel in the classic translation

Product Description: Armance is the first novel written by the French author Stendhal. The book is set during the Bourbon Restoration.

Product Description: One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War...read more

Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main, Now no fortress against him doth remain, No city walls are left for him to gain, Save Sarraguce, that sits on high mountain. Marsile its King, who feareth not God's name, Mahumet's man, he invokes Apollin's aid, Nor wards off ills that shall to him attain. AOI.

Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, Full seven years hath sojourned in Spain, Conquered the land, and won the western main, Now no fortress against him doth remain, No city walls are left for him to gain, Save Sarraguce, that sits on high mountain. Marsile its King, who feareth not God's name, Mahumet's man, he invokes Apollin's aid, Nor wards off ills that shall to him attain. AOI.

Product Description: Cette nouvelle raconte l’histoire de Pietro Missirilli, un carbonaro qui lutte pour la liberté de l’Italie, et de Vanina, une princesse orgueilleuse, tous deux âgés de 20 ans. Le père de Vanina veut la marier à un prince, Don Livio Savelli mais Vanina refuse et tombe amoureuse du carbonaro, blessé par un coup de poignard, que son père cachait chez eux, à Rome...read more