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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2

    A major celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century.

    The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone…

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    The Made and the Found

    Patrick McGuinness,Emily McLaughlin

    Explores how the interplay between the given and the imagined, the real and the virtual, the world as we find it and the world as we make it, functions as…

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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2: From Colette to Marie NDiaye

    This two-volume feast of an anthology celebrates the rich tradition of the French short story. Spanning four centuries, its pages brim with decadent tales, ‘bloody tales’ and fairy tales, detective…

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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

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    A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries

    The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous…

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    Dubliners

    James Joyce

    This riverrun edition presents Joyce's first major work with a new preface by Patrick McGuinness.

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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    James Joyce

    'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.

    A Portrait first appeared in…

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    Against Nature

    Joris-Karl Huysmans

    Des Esseintes is a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where her indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he…

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    Ulysses: (riverrun editions)

    James Joyce

    A new edition of the modernist masterpiece, this riverrun edition presents a version of Ulysses that contains the changes to the text that were approved by Joyce himself, during his…

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    Europe in Poems: The Versopolis Anthology

    This anthology showcases sixty poets writing in twenty-five languages from countries across Europe. A feat of European intercultural exchange, it is also a fitting celebration of the Versopolis ethos: an…

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    Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory

    Patrick McGuinness

    Takes you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. This book offers exquisite meditation on place, time and memory is an illicit peek into other…

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    Jilted City

    Patrick Mcguinness

    Features poems that inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. This collection finds unforeseen connections between place…

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    French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times

    A selection of English translations of French poetry from medieval to modern times, in the hardcover Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet series –

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    French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times

    From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume…

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    Blood Feather

    Patrick McGuinness

    In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, Patrick McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves

    In this intimate…

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    Real Oxford

    Patrick McGuinness

    Real Oxford shows that there’s more than dreaming spires and bicycles to the city. The grand buildings of the university are here, but Patrick McGuinness charts a personal history of…

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    The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

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    This two-volume feast of an anthology celebrates the rich tradition of the French short story. Spanning four centuries, its pages brim with decadent tales, ‘bloody tales’ and fairy tales, detective…

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    Made and the Found: Essays, Prose and Poetry in Honour of Michael Sheringham

    The relationship between the made and the found is one of the most fertile tensions in modern French literature. This collection of critical and creative writing explores how the interplay…

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    Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson

    Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. These matters are pursued here in essays on subjects ranging from Voltaire…

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    Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson

    Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. These matters are pursued here in essays on subjects ranging from Voltaire…

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    Stanzas on the Death of His Father: Coplas a la muerte de su padre

    Jorge Manrique

    The Coplas of Manrique is one of the most celebrated poems in Spanish. Written shortly before the poet’s death, it is an elegy that speaks not just of a personal…

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    Against the Grain: The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature

    Mathew Rickard

    This book explores the representation of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent literature to demonstrate how the movement both appropriated and subverted patriarchal assumptions surrounding reading and writing. The…

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    The Conquest of Plassans

    Emile Zola

    An ambitious and unscrupulous priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, intent on conquering its political and social life. His arrival has profound consequences for the Mouret family, whose…

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    The Day’s Ration: Selected Poems

    Gilles Ortlieb

    For Gilles Ortlieb, the day's ration is hard won. He takes the art of noticing to a new level, petrifying us with moments of bleakness and ushering us out of…

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    Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France: From Anarchism to Action francaise

    Patrick McGuinness (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford)

    Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Beginning with Mallarme and…

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    Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre

    Patrick McGuinness (Fellow and Tutor in French, Fellow and Tutor in French, St Anne's College, Oxford)

    A study of one of theatre’s quietest but most radical innovators, the playwright, poet, and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck described as the prodigal father of the Theatre of the Absurd…

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    Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France: From Anarchism to Action francaise

    Patrick McGuinness (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford)

    Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the 19th century. Beginning with Mallarme and…

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    Petit Glossaire Pour Servir A L'Intelligence Des Auteurs Decadents Et Symbolistes

    Paul Adam,Jacques Plowert

    This glossary is the only work of its kind produced by Decadent and Symbolist writers themselves, and is full of ‘definitions’ as mystifying as the words they claim to define…

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    L'Anti-Salome: Representations de la feminite bienveillante au temps de la Decadence (1850-1910)

    Marie Kawthar Daouda

    L'auteur montre comment, sous la plume de Jean Lorrain, de Marie Corelli, de Henry Rider-Haggard ou de Renee Vivien, des silhouettes mythologiques, bibliques et historiques invitent a nuancer l'omnipresence de…

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    Felix Vallotton

    Dita Amory,Philippe Buttner,Ann Dumas,Patrick McGuinness,Katia Poletti

    An important study of the work of Felix Vallotton, a prominent member of Les Nabis and a contemporary of Bonnard and Vuillard.

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    Roman Catholicism in the United States: A Thematic History

    A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Beyond the Parish,’ ‘Presence in the World,’ and…

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    Roman Catholicism in the United States: A Thematic History

    A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: ‘Beyond the Parish,’ ‘Presence in the World,’ and…

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