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French Ways and Their Meaning

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By Edith Wharton

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9781110457052 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $26.99 | also contains French Ways and Their Meaning | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781110667741 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $26.99 | also contains French Ways and Their Meaning | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781443721608 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $38.95 | also contains French Ways and Their Meaning | About this edition: FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING by EDITH WHARTON.

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9781110457038 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $20.75 | also contains French Ways and Their Meaning | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781110667727 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2009, cover price $20.75 | also contains French Ways and Their Meaning | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9781406707021 | Lightning Source Inc, March 31, 2007, cover price $27.45 | also contains French Ways and Their Meaning | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

9780936399874 | Reprint edition (Berkshire House Pub, July 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Essays about the French and their culture, written during World War I.

Surrealism

Product Description: Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by Andre Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon...read more

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9780714842592 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, December 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Surrealism is the first in an expanded range of Themes and Movements titles which look beyond the post-1945 period to survey all of the twentieth century's major art movements.

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9780714856735 | Abr rev up edition (Phaidon Inc Ltd, June 23, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement.

Break of Day

Product Description: Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Breton’s second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996). In fewer than two hundred pages, it captures the first full decade of the surrealist movement...read more

By Mary Ann Caws (trans)

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9780803220843 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Originally published in France in 1934, Break of Day is André Breton’s second collection of critical and polemical essays, following The Lost Steps (Nebraska 1996).

The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

Product Description: Not since the publication of Paul Auster’s The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary verse of scourge Michel Houellebecq...read more

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9780300100105 | Yale Univ Pr, August 11, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world.

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9780300143188 | Yale Univ Pr, September 9, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Not since the publication of Paul Auster’s The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world.

Salvador Dali

Product Description: “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.”He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, and in this concise narrative acclaimed art historian Mary Ann Caws provides a sharply written survey of his life and work...read more

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781861893833 | Reaktion Books, January 15, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.

To the Boathouse: A Memoir

Product Description: The southern landscape forms a lush backdrop in this memoir by Mary Ann Caws in which she recounts a life of passionate engagement. She sketches her early years in North Carolina, where she makes her debut and begins to struggle with accepted social values of the time and region...read more

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9780817314255 | Univ of Alabama Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: To the Boathouse is the memoir of a southern girl and her maturing sense of self as she grows to become one of the most prolific and accomplished writers and critics of our day.

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9780817354961 | 2 new edition (Fire Ant Books, February 18, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The southern landscape forms a lush backdrop in this memoir by Mary Ann Caws in which she recounts a life of passionate engagement.

Capital of Pain

Product Description: Capital of Pain, first published in 1926, has had a lasting impression on more readers than one might expect. Young Frenchmen between the wars carried it in their backpacks; other poets were dazzled, young and old, all discussed and often argued about this remarkable book...read more

By Mary Ann Caws (trans), Paul Eluard, Nancy Kline (trans) and Patricia Terry (trans)

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9780976844969 | Black Widow Pr, February 2, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Capital of Pain, first published in 1926, has had a lasting impression on more readers than one might expect.

Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting And Writing

Product Description: This book explores the life and art of seven extraordinary women of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, who had a tremendous if not yet fully acknowledged impact on the modernist movement and its reception. Judith Gautier, Suzanne Valadon, Dorothy Bussy, Dora Carrington, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emily Carr and Claude Cahun were powerful forces in their various fields...read more

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781403965950 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 12, 2006, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: This book explores the life and art of seven extraordinary women of the late nineteenth and twentieth century, who had a tremendous if not yet fully acknowledged impact on the modernist movement and its reception.

Henry James

An account of the life and career of the late-nineteenth-century classic author places a particular emphasis on his use of the scenic method as a means of expressing his visual imagination, in an illustrated portrait that includes previously unpublished photographs of his family, friends, and works of art that inspired his writing.

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781585675432 | Overlook Pr, November 2, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An account of the life and career of the late-nineteenth-century classic author places a particular emphasis on his use of the scenic method as a means of expressing his visual imagination, in an illustrated portrait that includes previously unpublished photographs of his family, friends, and works of art that inspired his writing.

Surprised in Translation

Product Description: For Mary Ann Caws—noted translator of surrealist poetry—the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction...read more

By Mary Ann Caws

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9780226098739 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For Mary Ann Caws—noted translator of surrealist poetry—the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction.

Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology

A representative sampling of the surrealistic poetry of the avant-garde author, Andre Breton, are presented in both the original French and English translation

By Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Mary Ann Caws

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9780292764774 | Univ of Texas Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A representative sampling of the surrealistic poetry of the avant-garde author, Andre Breton, are presented in both the original French and English translation

Approximate Man & Other Writings: Approximate Man And Other Writings

Product Description: This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English language source for a complete version of Tzara's epic Approximate Man now widely regarded as the poetic masterpiece of Surrealism. Included is a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay setting the context for the poem...read more

By Mary Ann Caws

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9780976844914 | Italian edition edition (Black Widow Pr, January 25, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English language source for a complete version of Tzara's epic Approximate Man now widely regarded as the poetic masterpiece of Surrealism.

Surrealist Love Poems

Product Description: Love poetry includes, yes, descriptions of the beloved. And images of a fantastic idyll complete with falling stars, the sound of the sea, and beautiful countryside. In the hands of Surrealists, though, love poetry also includes gravediggers and murderers, dice and garbage, snakeskin purses and "the drunken kisses of cyclones...read more

By Mary Ann Caws (editor)

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9780226098715 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A compilation of love poetry by some of the twentieth century's leading surrealist writers and artists explores the fundamental principles of human love and sexuality in works by AndrT Breton, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dalf, Frida Kahlo, Paul Eluard, and others, accompanied by photography by Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Claude Cahun.

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9780226098722 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Love poetry includes, yes, descriptions of the beloved.

Pablo Picasso

An addition to Reaktion's Critical Lives series, which combine short biographies with readable accounts of the subject's work, this is an assessment of Picasso's life and art, taking a thematic, as well as chronological approach.

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781861892478 | Reaktion Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Uses a thematic and chronological approach to a discussion of Picasso's life and art.

Marcel Proust

Traces the life and accomplishments of the twentieth century novelist, noting his never-ending observation of the world that influenced his fictional characterizations, artistic works, and daily routines within his elite social circle. Reprint.

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781585674053 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and accomplishments of the twentieth-century novelist, noting his favorite artists, people, and places and their influence on his fictional characterizations.

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9781585676484 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, April 30, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and accomplishments of the twentieth century novelist, noting his never-ending observation of the world that influenced his fictional characterizations, artistic works, and daily routines within his elite social circle.

Henri Peyre: His Life in Letters

Product Description: Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair of the French Department of Yale University for more than four decades, Peyre was also the author of forty-four books, a brilliant speaker, and a mentor to two generations of students...read more

By Mary Ann Caws (foreword by), John William Kneller (editor), Mario Maurin (compiler) and Henri Peyre

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9780300104431 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 2004, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person.

Virginia Woolf

A fetching illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf uses never-before-published photos and portraits to introduce readers to this seminal writer, detailing her remarkable literary career, her haunted private life, and her colleagues from the famed Bloomsbury Circle. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781585672646 | Overlook Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A fetching illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf uses never-before-published photos and portraits to introduce readers to this seminal writer, detailing her remarkable literary career, her haunted private life, and her colleagues from the famed Bloomsbury Circle.

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9781585675203 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, November 1, 2004), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A fetching illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf uses never-before-published photos and portraits to introduce readers to this seminal writer, detailing her remarkable literary career, her haunted private life, and her colleagues from the famed Bloomsbury Circle.

Maria Jolas, Woman of Action: A Memoir and Other Writings

Product Description: Maria McDonald Jolas, a member of a distinguished Kentucky family and cofounder with Eugene Jolas of the international literary journal transition, has been called a survivor of the heroic generation and, somewhat to her discomfort, "the leading lady of Paris literati of the Thirties...read more

By Mary Ann Caws and M. Jolas

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9781570035500 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Maria McDonald Jolas, a member of a distinguished Kentucky family and cofounder with Eugene Jolas of the international literary journal transition, has been called a survivor of the heroic generation and, somewhat to her discomfort, "the leading lady of Paris literati of the Thirties.

Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

The first collection of writings by the seminal modernist introduces readers to Sackville-West's important contribution to modern literature, including poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts from her novels. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Mary Ann Caws (editor)

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9781403963185 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, November 8, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The first collection of writings by the seminal modernist introduces readers to Sackville-West's important contribution to modern literature, including poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts from her novels.

Robert Motherwell With Pen and Brush

Product Description: Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of thinking and writing in relation to his paintings...read more

By Mary Ann Caws

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9781861891419 | Reaktion Books, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists.

The Reception of Virginia Wolfe in Europe

Product Description: The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which Virginia Woolf has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mary Ann Caws (editor) and Nicola Luckhurst (editor)

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9780826455888 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 1, 2002, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes.

Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology

Product Description: In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology. Conceived as a sequel to that volume, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology does for Surrealism what Motherwell's book did for Dadaism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780262032759 | Mit Pr, April 16, 2001, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Offers an anthology of poems, essays, and manifestos by such surrealist poets and painters as Joseph Cornell, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and Tristan Tzara.

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9780262532013 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, September 9, 2002), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In 1951 Robert Motherwell published a collection of writings called The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology.

Ostinato

Product Description: Written over an extended period, Ostinato is the long-awaited autobiography of Louis-René des Forêts, one of France's most beloved writers. A few sections of this remarkable text have been published in fragments over the years, and then, with some reluctance on the part of the author, as a series of fragments in France in 1997...read more

By Mary Ann Caws (trans) and Louis-Rene Des Forets

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9780803266247 | Bison Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Written over an extended period, Ostinato is the long-awaited autobiography of Louis-René des Forêts, one of France's most beloved writers.

Mallarme in Prose

Contains translated prose pieces by one of the most influential figures in 19th-century France on such topics as life, fashion, language, aesthetics, and the performing arts. (view table of contents)

By Jill Anderson (trans), Malcolm Bowie (trans), Mary Ann Caws (editor), Rosemary Lloyd (trans), Stephane Mallarme, Richard Sieburth (trans) and Patricia Terry (trans)

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9780811214513 | New Directions, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Contains translated prose pieces by one of the most influential figures in 19th-century France on such topics as life, fashion, language, aesthetics, and the performing arts.

Manifesto: A Century of Isms

Product Description: The first anthology of its kind, Manifesto features over two hundred artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of countries. The manifesto, a public statement that sets forth the tenets of a forthcoming, existing, or potential movement or "ism"—or that plays on the idea of one—became in various modernisms a crucial and forceful vehicle for artists, writers, and other intellectuals to express their ideas about the direction of aesthetics and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mary Ann Caws (editor)

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9780803264076 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The first anthology of its kind, Manifesto features over two hundred artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of countries.

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