With Stendhal is a delightful composite portrait of one of the world's great novelists.
Simon Leys introduces and translates into English for the first time three linked pieces: the recollections of Stendhal's famous friend Prosper Mérimée, the impressions of novelist George Sand, and a recently discovered piece by Stendhal himself, a whimsical list of the supernatural powers he wished he possessed.
Together they illuminate the life and mind of a colourful hyper-romantic, given to duelling, bantering and falling in love, for whom boredom was a sin and hypocracy a crime.
Simon Leys
Other People's Thoughts
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
"Most people are other people", Oscar Wilde remarked, "their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation . . . " Other People's Thoughts is a wonderfully entertaining collection... Buy or find out more →
With Stendhal
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
With Stendhal is a delightful composite portrait of one of the world's great novelists.
Simon Leys introduces and translates into English for the first time three linked pieces: the recollections of Stendhal's famous fri... Buy or find out more →
The Wreck Of The Batavia And Prosper
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In 1629, the Batavia was wrecked on a coral archipelago fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived, only to become victims of a visionary psychopath who, with the help of a dozen foll... Buy or find out more →