Francoi de La Rochefoucauld; E. H. Blackmore; A. M. Blackmore; Francine Giguere
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400 ページ
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Paperback
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128 x 195 mm
刊行日
2008年05月
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Oxford World's Classics
Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thin ... 続きを読む
Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Patrick Coleman; Angela Scholar
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720 ページ
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Paperback
サイズ
128 x 195 mm
刊行日
2008年05月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achiev ... 続きを読む
This book provides the first historical account of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century. The diary came to prominence as a genre in France in the 1880s and since this time, writers ... 続きを読む
These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself'
Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of ex ... 続きを読む
For all the fame he won as a writer during a brief but astonishingly fertile period in the 1750s and early 1760s, Rousseau thought the making of books essentially foreign to his nature; what mattered ... 続きを読む
Sandrine Sanos's biography of Simone de Beauvoir situates Beauvoir's life and works in historical context, charting how she was enmeshed in most 20h century events and developments from WW2, to Decolo ... 続きを読む
The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no ... 続きを読む
