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Product Description: The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front...read more
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9780714534022 | Marion Boyars, September 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War.

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Product Description: Compelling and highly influential, Michel Foucault's Madness is an indispensable work for readers who wish to understand the intellectual evolution of one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century. Written in 1954 and revised in 1962, Madness delineates the profound shift that occurred in Foucault's thought during this period...read more
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9780062007186 | Perennial, January 4, 2011, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Compelling and highly influential, Michel Foucault's Madness is an indispensable work for readers who wish to understand the intellectual evolution of one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: The narrator of this extraordinary narrative is Mark Sheridan. Born into the theatrical family of his uncle, R.B Sheridan, he recounts his years with a travelling theatre company, and his turbulent love affair with Esmond, a young actor...read more
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9780743231954 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The narrator of this extraordinary narrative is Mark Sheridan.

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Product Description: Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker. Piera Aulagnier's The Violence of Interpretation bridges the work of Winnicott and Lacan, putting forward a theory of psychosis based on children's early experiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415236751 | Routledge, May 1, 2001, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker.

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9780415236768 | Routledge, May 1, 2001, cover price $42.99 | About this edition: Published in English for the first time, this is a seminal work by an original and creative analytical thinker.

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Product Description: One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, André Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen. Gide knew and corresponded with many of the major literary figures of his day, from Mallarmé to Oscar Wilde...read more
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9780674035270 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 12, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, André Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen.

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9780674003934 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 2, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, André Gide also led what was probably one of the most interesting lives our century has seen.

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Zahra tries to find happiness after her father's death, but is caught up in the world of brothels and prisons
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9780151791507, titled "Sacred Night" | Harcourt, August 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Zahra tries to find happiness after her father's death, but is caught up in the world of brothels and prisons

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Made aware at the age of nine that she is the product of a gang raping of her mother, a young woman uses her sexual wiles to lure her husband into a deadly plot against the men whom she believes to be the rapists
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9780452277809 | Plume, July 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Made aware at the age of nine that she is the product of a gang raping of her mother, a young woman uses her sexual wiles to lure her husband into a deadly plot against the men whom she believes to be the rapists

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Product Description: These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing bond that becomes a gripping allegory of the forces that have divided "brothers" in much of Europe since World War II...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780802135063 | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction.

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In the years leading up to the Civil War, English-born Elizabeth Escridge Jones, whose husband and lover killed each other in a duel, raises her son, copes with the disapproval of Savannah society, and marries her cousin, Confederate officer Billy Hargrove
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9780714529851 | Marion Boyars, August 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the years leading up to the Civil War, English-born Elizabeth Escridge Jones, whose husband and lover killed each other in a duel, raises her son, copes with the disapproval of Savannah society, and marries her cousin, Confederate officer Billy Hargrove

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Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply define, refine, and perpetuate crime. Reprint. NYT.
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9780679752554 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply define, refine, and perpetuate crime.

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9782908958010 | Flohic Editions, October 1, 1991, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child. Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to circumvent Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, remains deeply conflicted about her identity...read more
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9780345364173 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child.

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9780422773508 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1980, cover price $26.00

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9780415051170 | Routledge, December 31, 1990, cover price $61.95

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Essays discuss critical theory, aesthetics, truth, power, crime, prison, psychiatry, morality, homosexuality music, and literature
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9780415901499 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 1, 1990), cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss critical theory, aesthetics, truth, power, crime, prison, psychiatry, morality, homosexuality music, and literature

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After seven daughters a Moroccan father decides his eighth child will be a son and heir no matter what its gender
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9780704326880 | Gardners Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $21.05 | About this edition: In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law.

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9780345357106 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: After seven daughters a Moroccan father decides his eighth child will be a son and heir no matter what its gender

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Traces the life of the important French poet, attempts to depict his complex personality and discusses his influence on modern poetry
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9780813911427 | Univ of Virginia Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Traces the life of the important French poet, attempts to depict his complex personality and discusses his influence on modern poetry

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Chronicles the life of the French President from his austere childhood and deeply religious youth through the development of his obsessive ambition for power and ruthless pursuit of the presidency.
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9780151128853 | 1 edition (Harcourt, April 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of the French President from his austere childhood and deeply religious youth through the development of his obsessive ambition for power and ruthless pursuit of the presidency.

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Allawa, a young Algerian, gradually makes his way to France, where he becomes a successful filmmaker
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9780151812004 | Harcourt, May 1, 1986, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Allawa, a young Algerian, gradually makes his way to France, where he becomes a successful filmmaker

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