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Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition - Charles Baudelaire - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women.Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry – a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age – and one of the founding texts of literary Modernism.

DKK 120.00

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Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London’s Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory “tramping” expeditions to the city’s East End, then a place of great squalor and deprivation. Later he moved to Paris’s bohemian Latin Quarter, where, in early 1929, during a bout of serious illness, he was the victim of a robbery that left him in a state of near destitution, forcing him to work punishing hours in a series of menial jobs, including as a restaurant dishwasher. These real-life experiences laid the foundations for what would be the young writer’s first full-length work.Populated by a troupe of colourful characters, replete with penetrating observations and cast in the limpid prose that would become Orwell’s hallmark, Down and Out in Paris and London – published by Victor Gollancz in 1933 – provides both an invaluable historical snapshot and an insight into the perennial social evils of inequality, poverty and alienation.

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Pleasures and Days - Marcel Proust - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Proust''s only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle ''In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days'' takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, presenting the lives, loves and attitudes of a host of unforgettable characters.

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The Testament and Other Poems: New Translation - Francois Villon - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The most celebrated of French medieval poets, François Villon makes poetry out the basest material the raw urban life of Paris with its petty officials, students, clergy, tradesmen, pimps, whores and thieves. Despite successful studies, the young Villon immersed himself in this world, embarking on a career of petty crime that brought him repeated imprisonment. Condemned to death, but then reprieved and banished from Paris, he disappears from history in 1463, leaving behind a legend of poète maudit that has never lost its fascination.Violent, indignant, ribald and often brutally physical, Villon s verse has a formidable satiric thrust, and yet it also encompasses passages of poignant nostalgia and haunting lyric expression, culminating in his digressive autobiographical masterpiece, The Testament, which counts among the most popular texts of French poetry.

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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust imprisonment and begins a new life in England with his devoted daughter Lucie. There, the gifted but dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton and the exiled French nobleman Charles Darnay find their lives increasingly intertwined with those of the Manettes. Yet soon both men are drawn ineluctably from the peaceful English capital to the horror and bloodshed of the Paris Terror and the looming threat of the guillotine.Representing a departure from the social satire of most of his other novels and deemed by Dickens himself to be “the best story I have written”, A Tale of Two Cities is a powerful historical novel about the repercussions of epochal events on the personal lives of people on both sides of the Channel.

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The Gods Want Blood - Anatole France - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, ''The Gods Want Blood'' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local Revolutionary tribunal. Caught up in the bloodthirsty madness surrounding him, he helps to dispense cruel justice in the name of his ideals, while at the same time succumbing to his own petty instincts of revenge when he jealously pursues a rival for the affections of his lover Elodie.

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The Flight of Icarus - Raymond Queneau - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In late-nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he’s working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Montparnasse, where he learns to drink absinthe and is picked up by a friendly prostitute.These hilarious adventures make Queneau’s novel, presented in the form of a script and parodying various genres, one of the best literary jeux d’esprit in modern literature.

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Transformation - Mary Shelley - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature approaching from the sea, with whom he makes an infernal bargain to exchange bodies, with momentous consequences.First published in 1831 and here presented with the supernatural stories ‘The Evil Eye’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’, the chilling Gothic tale ‘Transformation’ is a paragon of the genre by the author of Frankenstein.

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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions: New Translation - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan, and Vienna. His impressions on what he saw, "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions", were first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya (Time), the periodical he edited.

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Letters from London and Europe - Giuseppe Tomasi Lampedusa - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Leopard, published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930, its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, wrote a number of letters to his cousins Casimiro and Lucio Piccolo in which he describes his travels around Europe (London, Paris, Zurich, Berlin). The letters, here published in English for the first time, display much of Lampedusa’s distinctive style present in his later work: not only the razor-sharp introspection, but also a wicked sense of humour, playful in its description of the comédie humaine.

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Manon Lescaut - Antoine Francois Prevost - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her, and they elope to Paris, incurring the wrath of his family and forfeiting his inheritance. However, he struggles to satisfy her taste for luxury, frittering away the little he has left, and his domestic bliss finally disintegrates when he finds out that Manon has betrayed him for a rich lover.Although causing scandal on its initial publication in 1731 and subsequently being banned, Manon Lescaut proved very popular with eighteenth-century readers, and remains one of literature’s finest and most evocative depictions of obsessive love.

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With the Flow - Joris Karl Huysmans - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But whatever he does, wherever he turns in his quest for some pleasure, his dissatisfaction only increases, until he is forced to realize that he has to abandon all hope and just “go with the flow”. This 1882 novella, a key work in Huysmans'' literary development – prefiguring in its protagonist the figure of Jean des Esseintes, the hero of À rebours, written two years later – is accompanied here by another masterly study of human despair, ''M. Bougran''s Retirement''.

DKK 93.00

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Journey to the End of the Night - Louis Ferdinand Celine - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Céline’s fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author’s own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Céline’s disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force.

DKK 113.00

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Attack on the Mill and Other Stories - Emile Zola - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume.Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings – from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the Provençal countryside of the author''s childhood – these stories will keep the reader riveted from the beginning to the end and surprise for their modernity.Contains:The Attack on the MillThe Girl Who Loves MeRentafoilDeath by AdvertisingStory of a MadmanBig MichuThe Way People DieA Flash in the PanAbsence Makes the Heart Grow FonderPriests and SinnersFair ExchangeThe Haunted House

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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories - Scott F. Fitzgerald - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, ‘Babylon Revisited’ tells the story of the widower Charlie Wales, a reformed alcoholic and successful businessman returning to Paris to convince his in-laws to give him back the daughter he abandoned. As the old haunts of the city he used to carouse in seem more and more alien to him, he finds himself assailed by feelings of guilt and regret.Considered one of Fitzgerald’s finest and most poignant pieces of short fiction, ''Babylon Revisited’ is presented here with a selection of other tales published in the same period, such as ‘Crazy Sunday’ – an account of alcoholism and infidelity in Hollywood – which showcase the author at his creative best.

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In Search of Mary - Bee Rowlatt - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Toddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarks on an extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft. From the wild coasts of Norway to a naked re-birthing in California, via the blood-soaked streets of revolutionary Paris, Bee learns what drove her hero on and what’s been won and lost over the centuries in the battle for equality.On this biographical treasure hunt she finds herself consulting a witch, a porn star, a quiet Norwegian archivist and the tenants of a blighted council estate in Leeds – getting much more than she bargained for. In her quest to find a new balance between careers and babies, Bee also discovers the importance of celebrating the radiant power of love in all our lives.

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Colonel Chabert - Honore De Balzac - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered that his wife has married an aristocrat who has liquidated all his assets, Chabert enlists the help of Derville to recover both his name and his fortune.Part of Balzac''s La Comédie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France''s transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times.

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The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail - Pablo Picasso - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Paris and features a cast of grotesque allegorical characters such as the Onion, Silence or Fat Anxiety discussing the crucial wartime themes of hunger, cold and love; the second, The Four Little Girls, came about a few years after the end of the war on the French Riviera, and presents the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of four unnamed girls in a vegetable garden, revealing an unexpectedly evil aspect of childhood.These surreal compositions, which were meant to be read aloud rather than formally staged, are a testament to the great artist’s imaginative powers, and have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov.

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Changing Track - Michel Butor - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Léon Delmont begins to mull over his past and question the decisions he has made about his future. These musings – together with his impressions of the unfolding scenery, conjectures about his fellow passengers and some recurring leitmotifs – form the basis of a riveting narrative that provides a psychological case study of an everyman and subtly illustrates the onset of the protagonist’s doubts and fears.Published in 1957 and awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot, Michel Butor’s groundbreaking third novel remains the most popular and widely read work of the nouveau roman genre. Famously written in the second person in order to immerse the reader more fully into the psyche of the main character, Changing Track pulls off the rare feat of being at once experimental and accessible, disquieting and engrossing.

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Money - Emile Zola - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugène Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard perilously begins to inflate the value of his enterprise using rumour, intrigue, financial manipulation and all the other tricks in the book.Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola, Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the press.

DKK 112.00

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A Nest of the Gentry: New Translation - Ivan Turgenev - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Coming back to the “nest” of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides to turn his back on the vacuous salons of Paris and his frivolous and unfaithful wife Varvara Pavlovna. On his return he meets Liza, the daughter of one of his cousins, whom he had known when they were children and who rekindles in him long-smothered feelings of love. News of Varvara’s death arrive from France, offering Lavretsky the prospect of a new life, but a cruel twist threatens to shatter his dreams and forces him to re-evaluate his plans.Hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, A Nest of the Gentry – Turgenev’s most successful and widely read novel, here presented in a new translation by Michael Pursglove – deals with the personal struggles of the individual in a period of turbulent social change.

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Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

According to its author, Les Misérables was to show “the progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life”. Centring on the adventures and the tortuous path to redemption of former convict Jean Valjean during the tumultuous years leading to the Paris uprising of June 1832, Hugo''s 1862 masterpiece presents the universal story of a man struggling to regain his dignity, to make up for his past mistakes and to find a place in society and in the ethical cosmos of his time.Originally published during Hugo''s self-imposed exile in Guernsey and featuring a complex web of characters, with the masses of the Parisian dispossessed in the background, Les Misérables is not only one of world literature''s greatest feats of storytelling, but an unsurpassed exploration of human morality.

DKK 127.00

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La boheme - Giacomo Puccini - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Puccini’s La bohème is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera’s initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi’s influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto over the course of three and a half years and gives a synopsis, outlining the main themes of La bohème. Edward Greenfield presents an essay on the musical structure and consistency of the opera, whose ‘very accessibility tends to obscure the musical genius behind the score’. Finally, Joanna Richardson surveys the Bohemians in Paris portrayed by Henry Murger, whose stories formed the basis for Puccini’s work. This edition has over twenty photographs, a detailed thematic analysis and the original libretto with a facing literal translation by William Weaver. It also has an up-to-date bibliography, discography, DVD and website details. The guide is essential reading for anyone interested in the background to this opera, its themes and composition.

DKK 134.00

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Il barbiere di Siviglia / Moise et Pharaon (The Barber of Seville / Moses and Pharaoh) - Gioacchino Rossini - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rossini was one of the major innovators in the field of opera. Moïse et Pharaon is a score which he revised for Paris ten years after it had been composed for Naples; the result shows the evolution of his taste over a decade – from the neoclassical sublime to spectacular Romantic grand opera. Il barbiere di Siviglia has been a favourite with the public since it opened, and Marco Spada analyses how its stylish comedy has been misunderstood. Other essays throw light on the working conditions of the “opera industry” in Rossini’s Italy, on Balzac’s delightful novel concerning Moses and on the exceptional challenge of performing this type of music to a high standard.Contents: Rossini: the Serious and the Comic, Philip Gossett; The Composer at Work, John Rosselli; The Roots of a Masterpiece, Marco Spada; A Personal View of Rossini, Ubaldo Gardini; Il barbiere di Siviglia: Libretto by Cesare Sterbini; The Barber of Seville: English version by Edward J. Dent; Balzac, Stendhal and Rossini’s ‘Moses’, Pierluigi Petrobelli; From Sublime to Romantic, Richard Bernas; Moïse et Pharaon: Libretto by Victor de Jouy and Louis Balochy; Moses: English translation by John and Nell Moody

DKK 147.00

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Death on Credit - Louis Ferdinand Celine - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When Céline’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, Death on Credit. Both were a new kind of novel, frank about the author’s thoughts and actions in ways that readers had never encountered, ultra-realistic – and full of incidents that could not possibly be true to life – and characters that stretched the imagination.In Death on Credit, Ferdinand Bardamu, Céline’s alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu’s sexual escapades; the style becomes deliberately rougher and sentences disintegrate to catch the flavour of the teeming world of everyday Parisian tragedies, the struggle to make a living, illness, venereal disease, the sordid stories of families whose destiny is governed by their own stupidity, malice, lust and greed. This fascinating book by one of the greatest twentieth-century novelists is an unforgettable experience for the reader.

DKK 119.00

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Paris Spleen: Dual-Language Edition - Charles Baudelaire - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Pleasures and Days - Marcel Proust - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Testament and Other Poems: New Translation - Francois Villon - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Gods Want Blood - Anatole France - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Flight of Icarus - Raymond Queneau - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Transformation - Mary Shelley - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions: New Translation - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Letters from London and Europe - Giuseppe Tomasi Lampedusa - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Manon Lescaut - Antoine Francois Prevost - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With the Flow - Joris Karl Huysmans - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Journey to the End of the Night - Louis Ferdinand Celine - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Attack on the Mill and Other Stories - Emile Zola - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories - Scott F. Fitzgerald - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In Search of Mary - Bee Rowlatt - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Colonel Chabert - Honore De Balzac - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Four Little Girls and Desire Caught by the Tail - Pablo Picasso - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Changing Track - Michel Butor - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Money - Emile Zola - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Nest of the Gentry: New Translation - Ivan Turgenev - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

La boheme - Giacomo Puccini - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Il barbiere di Siviglia / Moise et Pharaon (The Barber of Seville / Moses and Pharaoh) - Gioacchino Rossini - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Death on Credit - Louis Ferdinand Celine - Bog - Alma Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

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