Theatres of Melancholy. The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond, Hardback - Patrick Mauries

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in fav...

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A visually-led exploration of androgyny, from representations in antiquity to its current prevalence in the world of fashion.

A selection of jewellery based on the animal kingdom, drawn from the magnificent holdings at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. The follow-up ...

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This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. This book carefully collects and interprets a selec...

George Orwell's famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel.

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Documents the author's 'first contact with poverty'. This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostel...

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts ...

Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hos...

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The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary time...

Reducere. Both of Orwell's searing reportage accounts of poverty in the 1930s in one volume.

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Starting in the fourteenth century, northern France saw the rise of confraternities and other lay communities of men and women, organized around tr...

Experts from economics, finance, law, policy, and banking discuss the design and implementation of a future capital market union in Europe.

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From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a r...

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The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture-the "Belle Epoque." Dominique Kalifa traces the maki...

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This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the abilit...

Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of the post-punk period and developed alongside club cultu...

Reducere. A great mind, through an impressive array of literature, Robert Newton's novel is also a gold mine of wisdom and guidance... as it weaves threads o...

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An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messag...