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    Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds

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    An award-winning biography of one of the greats.

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    Other People’s Thoughts

    Simon Leys

    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…

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    The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays

    Simon Leys

    A new paperback edition of this essential collection of essays from an eminent critic. Simon Leys’ cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts…

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    With Stendhal

    Simon Leys

    With Stendhal is a delightful portrait of the nineteenth-century French novelist Henri Beyle, better known to us as Stendhal. Two linked texts, introduced, annotated and translated into English for the…

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    The Wreck of the Batavia and Prosper

    Simon Leys

    In 1629, the ship Batavia was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago. Most people on board escaped, only to become victims of a psychopath who organised a methodical…

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    The Death of Napoleon

    Simon Leys

    In this sardonic fable, Napoleon escapes from imprisonment on the Isle of St Helena. Leys writes an elegant, precise prose that ironically evokes the Napoleonic age. His tale can be…

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    The Hall Of Uselessness

    Simon Leys

    The Hall of Uselessness is an illuminating compendium from a brilliant and quirky writer and an exemplary global voice.

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    The Analects of Confucius

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    This is the Confucius translation for our time. -Jonathan Mirsky, The Times [London]

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    On the Abolition of All Political Parties

    Simon Leys,Simone Weil

    Here Simon Leys translates for the first time into English an essay by the remarkable Simone Weil – philosopher, activist, mystic – which makes a case for the corrupting effect…

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    The Death Of Napoleon

    Patricia Clancy,Simon Leys

    Ladies and gentlemen, alas! The Emperor is dead. The news from St Helena goes out across Europe, but in fact Napoleon has not died. By means of an ingenious escape…

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    The Social Dimension of Social Housing

    A systematic global study of the social cultures within social housing

    Twenty short essays, based on case studies from around the world, describe and illustrate the social elements of social…

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    The Analects

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    Leys has made Confucius speak English more persuasively than any translator to date. His achievement is one of simplicity… . Leys sees his task as making the Confucius of the…

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    A Nova Descolonizacao de Africa - Papa Simon Kimbangu

    Bitombokele Lei Gomes Lunguani

    Esta obra, escrita por Bitombokele Lei Gomes Lunguani inaugura um novo e importante periodo na Historia da Humanidade, que segundo o proprio autor coloca de forma muito bem clara, ira…

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    A Nova Descolonizacao de Africa - Papa Simon Kimbangu

    Bitombokele Lei Gomes Lunguani

    Esta obra, escrita por Bitombokele Lei Gomes Lunguani inaugura um novo e importante periodo na Historia da Humanidade, que segundo o proprio autor coloca de forma muito bem clara, ira…

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    A Nova Descolonizacao de Africa - Papa Simon Kimbangu

    Bitombokele Lei Gomes Lunguani

    Esta obra, escrita por Bitombokele Lei Gomes Lunguani inaugura um novo e importante periodo na Historia da Humanidade, que segundo o proprio autor coloca de forma muito bem clara, ira…

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    Dream Garden: A Novel

    Lei Yang,John Simon

    In Dream Garden, eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese culture and civilization are glimpsed through the interwoven stories of two princesses – in love with peace, both loved unconditionally by their…

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    Shanghai Job Dvd

    Get in. Get out. Get even.

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