"A swashbuckling novel by the author of"The Three Musketeers" The Baron des Canolles is a man torn apart by the civil war that dominates mid-seventeenth century France. For while the naive Gascon soldier cares little for the politics behind the battles, he is torn apart by a deep passion for two powerful women on opposing sides of the war: Nanon de Lartigues, a keen supporter of the Queen Regent Anne of Austria, and the Victomtesse de Ca ..."
"The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. This Penguin Classics edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik.When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house - and his lov ..."
French Film Noir(1st Edition) von RobinBuss Hardcover, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-2963-9, ISBN: 0-7145-2963-X
"From the seething internal aftermath of the German Occupation to the stylish radicalism of the New Wave and the slick post-modern fantasies of today, French directors such as Melville, Becker, Godard, Truffaut, and Chabrol have adapted American crime movie conventions to create their own cinema of good and evil. Fully illustrated with stills from a wide selection of movies, French Film Noir also contains a complete filmography listing o ..."
Au Bonheur des Dames(Updated) (Penguin Classics) von Emile Zola, RobinBuss, Mile Zola Paperback, 464 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2002 von Addison Wesley Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044783-5, ISBN: 0-14-044783-0
"Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. The Penguin Classics edition of Emile Zola's The Ladies' Delight is based on an acclaimed, vivid and modern translation by Robin Buss, who has also introduced the novel.The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this ..."
The Count of Monte Cristo(Reprint) (A Penguin Classics Hardcover) von Alexandre Dumas Père, RobinBuss Paperback, 1,276 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Penguin Classics Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044926-6, ISBN: 0-14-044926-4
""On what slender threads do life and fortune hang." Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the th ..."
French Film Noir(1st Edition) von RobinBuss Paperback, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-3036-9, ISBN: 0-7145-3036-0
"From the seething internal aftermath of the German Occupation to the stylish radicalism of the New Wave and the slick post-modern fantasies of today, French directors such as Melville, Becker, Godard, Truffaut, and Chabrol have adapted American crime movie conventions to create their own cinema of good and evil. Fully illustrated with stills from a wide selection of movies, French Film Noir also contains a complete filmography listing o ..."
"Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why do certain social, religious or racial groups have higher incidences ..."
"You want to look into bariatric surgery. Congratulations! It is exciting step, but getting all of the information you need - and trying to figure out fact from fiction - in order to make your final decision can be confusing and frustrating. Look no further! In this Guide you will learn everything you need to know in order to make an informed decision: *Each procedure - from g ..."
" Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdow ..."
"Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Reminiscent of ..."
Lucien Leuwen(Updated) (Penguin Classics) von RobinBuss, H. Edwards Paperback, 560 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044525-1, ISBN: 0-14-044525-0
"Set in France, this is a novel of life under the July Monarchy. The hero, Lucien Leuwen, is expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique when suspected of harbouring Republican sympathies. This unfinished work, is one of the most important 19th century French political novels."
"Set in 19th century Paris, Marseilles and Rome, this is the story of Edmond Dantes, a man betrayed and incarcerated. It tells of his search for Abbe Faria's hidden treasure and his reappearance as the fabulously rich, brooding, Byronic and vengeful Count of Monte Cristo."
Letters from Russia(Updated) (Penguin Classics) von Marquis De Custine, RobinBuss Paperback, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044548-0, ISBN: 0-14-044548-X
"The Marquis de Custine was born in 1790 into an anti-revolutionary background, and brought up in exile by his mother and her lover, Chateaubriand (both his father and grandfather had been guillotined). As a young man he was banished from polite society as a result of a homosexual scandal, but remained a close friend of Stendhal and Balzac and was admired by Baudelaire for his dandyism. In 1835, when de Tocqueville's "Democracy in Americ ..."
Italian Films(Updated) von RobinBuss Paperback, 176 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1990 von Batsford Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7134-6412-2, ISBN: 0-7134-6412-7
Cesar Birotteau (Penguin Classics) von RobinBuss, Honore De Balzac Paperback, 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1994 von Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044600-5, ISBN: 0-14-044600-1
"One of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, this book describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore."
"This story is one of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy."
Doing Your Own Research(Updated) von Eileen Kane, RobinBuss Paperback, 385 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2001 von Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-3043-7, ISBN: 0-7145-3043-3
"New, completely revised second edition.If you want to do research and aspire to academic ability, this book is for you - it will guide and challenge you, and keep you on the straight and narrow path of academic integrity.Doing Your Own Research is an essential reference tool for the student researcher. A complete A to Z of research, it explains all stages of a research project; from developing the basic idea to collecting the informatio ..."
Italian Films von RobinBuss Hardcover, 174 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Holmes Meier ISBN-13: 978-0-8419-1275-5, ISBN: 0-8419-1275-0
Italian Films von RobinBuss Hardcover, 176 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1989 von Batsford Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7134-5900-5, ISBN: 0-7134-5900-X
"Sergio Bazzini ph Mario Vulpiani sd Nicola Tamburro m Teo Usuelli pc Pegaso
with Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot Ferreri's total rejection of
civilization and conventional morality in the story of a man's escape to Tahiti, after
killing his wife. In Fereri's film, the obsession with the objects that surround his
central character (an industrial designer) suggests the obsession of Western
civilization with material ..."