Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1993
ISBN 10: 0720608589 ISBN 13: 9780720608588
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. This hallucinatory, lyrical novel posits that the Marquis de Sade, having survived for 178 years after his recorded death in 1814, indulges his obsessive erotic fantasies in the company of initiates - young men and women whom he has invited to his isolated country home. This de Sade drives a Mercedes and is familiar with the modern world of nuclear bombs, cocaine, AIDS, Picasso's Guernica, Hitler, William Burroughs and LSD.Sade's jolting collision with the here and now exposes the moral confusion and emptiness at the heart of our genocidal century."" - Publishers Weekly. ""Cross one of Anne Rice's eerie vampires with the historical Marquis de Sade and you get the protagonist of this provocative but murky novel."" - Library Journal.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1997
ISBN 10: 0720609631 ISBN 13: 9780720609639
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as characterization and imagery. Hardy analyzes key structures, including reflexive narrative and the narrative compoundings used to begin and end plays. She also examines narrative subtleties in the works of Plutarch, Holinshed, Brooke, and Sidney that Shakespeare read. Finally, she explores common narrative techniques - memory, forecast, and gendered story - and extensively analyzes these issues in three plays: Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1992
ISBN 10: 0720608317 ISBN 13: 9780720608311
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First British Edition. An imaginative novel recreating the life of Isidore Ducasse, the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont who he died under mysterious circumstances in 1871. He left almost no clues to his existence, except the explosive, astonishing prose poem, Les Chants de Maldoror, precursor to the works of the Surrealists. Reed evokes a fictional life of the notorious Comte extraordinary for its concentration of poetic power and for its excursions into the psychological hells of the underworld. In identifying himself with Lautreamont, he succeeds in an uncanny impersonation of the style of that morbid youth, obsessed with decay."" - The Times. ""Written in a lush, elegant prose.a satisfying work of biography."" - Bloomsbury Review.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1995
ISBN 10: 0720609372 ISBN 13: 9780720609370
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Works by Adrian George are in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, and in many international collections. His drawings have been reproduced on postage stamps; in 1982 he won an award for creating the most beautiful stamp in the world"" In his poignant and playful diary of a month in Paris in the empty days of August, ""George reacts as a happy habitué rather than a goggle-eyed tourist, relishing the Paris scene at this time of year for its singularity, drained of Parisians and flooded with foreigners"" - The Times. ""His glittering, ironic eye drinks in the beauty, the colours and the nonsense around him"" - Daily Telegraph.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 0720610036 ISBN 13: 9780720610031
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Book by Iwo Zauski, Pamela Zaluski.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0720609585 ISBN 13: 9780720609585
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The story of the Marquise de Sade is inevitably linked to that of her husband, but Renée Pélagie de Montreuil gains the consideration she never received in her lifetime in this book by one of the world's most distinguished scholars of Sade's work"" - The Independent. ""Admirable detail."" - New York Times Book Review. Who was Sade's wife? And why did she love him so devotedly for almost thirty years? Crosland competently shows how the Sade marriage symbolized the decay of the old aristocracy, and conveys the struggle of one individual to establish her personal identity at a time in France when women had virtually no rights of their own.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 2008
ISBN 10: 072061323X ISBN 13: 9780720613230
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Ranjit Singh has been largely written out of accounts of India's past by British historians, yet he was one of the most powerful and charismatic figures in Indian history. He unified the warring chiefdoms of the Punjab into an extraordinary northern empire, built up a formidable army, kept the British in check to the south of his realm, and closed the Khyber Pass through which plunderers had poured into India for centuries. His consummate humanity was unique among empire-builders. He gave employment to defeated foes, honored faiths other than his own, and included Hindus and Muslims among his ministers. A colorful character, he was inspired by the principles of peaceful coexistence uniquely articulated by the Sikh Gurus, firm in upholding the rights of others, and unabashed in exercising his own. The authors of this first full-length biography in English make use of a variety of eyewitness accounts, from reports by Maratha spies at the Lahore Durbar to British parliamentary papers and travel accounts. The story ends with the controversial Anglo-Sikh Wars following Ranjit's death, which saw the fall of his empire in the hands of his successors whose internecine conflict was exploited by the British. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of the consecration of the Sikh holy scriptures, this book honors a vital figure in Sikh history.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 2006
ISBN 10: 0720612772 ISBN 13: 9780720612776
Da: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Condizione: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 2002
ISBN 10: 0720611105 ISBN 13: 9780720611106
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 0720611261 ISBN 13: 9780720611267
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Book by Peter Owen.
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0720609429 ISBN 13: 9780720609424
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illustrated. An ingenious reconstruction of an episode in English social and religious history, based in the mid-Victorian era at the time of the Great Exhibition. A medley of figures, the good and the great, flit across the stage. These, and the ambience of the period are authentically captured in an entertaining narrative, spiced with a selection of satirical engravings from Punch. The author states that none of the characters who play a part in this historical narrative is imaginary, but readers may find some historical facts with a bit of adjustment in the order of events"" 1995, Illus. with 12 engravings from Punch,
Editore: Brand: Peter Owen Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 0720609151 ISBN 13: 9780720609158
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. New Ed. This remarkable document in the history of transvestism provides a first-hand account of manners and morals in late seventeenth century French society. In a light, intimate style praised by Sainte-Beuve, Choisy recounts his scandalous and entertaining escapades as a transvestite. Reared as a girl by his ambitious mother, the young Choisy dressed in girls' clothes, wore earrings, and was much admired by Louis XIV's homosexual transvestite brother. As the abbot of Saint Seine, Choisy continued to delight in extravagantly feminine attire and in the seduction of young girls, often with the unsuspecting assistance of their parents. A most fantastic and fascinating case; his erotic masquerade is the stuff of adult fairy tales."" - Marina Warner.