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“rayner heppenstall”

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  • Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventure story put together in a highly individual fashion and with an unusual time sequence, whereby the reader is even made to choose whether to begin with the first or the tenth chapter. ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • A Harlot High and Low

    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Translated by Rayner Heppenstall ...
    Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Lost Illusions

    by Herbert Hunt, Honoré de Balzac ...
    Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes ... Read more

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  • The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A collection of travel essays from the New York Times –bestselling author whose writing sparkles with "prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves" ( Time ).Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled aroun... ... Read more

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  • The Scorpion-Fish

    by Nicolas Bouvier ...
    On an unamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, abandoned by his lover, poor and feverish. A book on Indian insects deepens his morbid fascination with the crawling inhabitants of the room-'a pretty world of killers'- barely distinguishable from the insect like habitues of the local cafe, the charlatans and fake exorcists, the indolent landowners, ... Read more

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  • Spiders and More About Spiders: Their Structure and Habits , Illustrated

    by Charlotte Taylor ...
    Spiders and More About Spiders: Their Structure and Habits are well illustrated pieces; sets of observations by a mid nineteenth century spider enthusiast. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Impressions of Africa

    by Raymond Roussel ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    Series series French Literature
    In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance—starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recollections of the Golden Triangle

    by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...
    Translated by J.A. Underwood ...
    "Could be read as the French New Novelist's tribute to the vibrant Latin American fiction that his own early works helped to inspire" ( The New York Times Book Review).A provocative novel by one of the most influential French writers, Recollections of the Golden Triangle is a tour de force: a literary thriller constructed of wildly diverse elements—fantasy and dream, erotic invention, and the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prague Noir

    The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague

    by Sylvie Germain ...
    a haunting classic Madeleine Kingsley in She Magazine �An intricate, finely crafted and polished tale, The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague brings magic-realism to the dimly lit streets of Prague. Through the squares and alleys a woman walks, the embodiment of human pity, sorrow, death. Everyone she passes is touched by her, and Germain skilfully creates an intense mood and feel in her ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two

    Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, and Spirit of Place

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Three travel memoirs featuring writing "as luminous as the Mediterranean air" from the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.The real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in CorfuBorn in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an... ... Read more

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  • Goose of Hermogenes

    by Ithell Colquhoun ...
    The heroine of this story (described only as "I") is compelled to visit a mysterious uncle who turns out to be a black magician who lords over a kind of Prospero's Island that exists out of time and space. Startled by his bizarre behavior and odd nocturnal movements, she eventually learns that he is searching for the philosopher's stone. When his sinister attentions fall upon the priceless jewel ... Read more

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  • Illuminations

    by Arthur Rimbaud ...
    This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD