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Cousin Bette by David (INT) Sylvia (TRN); Bellos Honore de; Raphael Balzac
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France stru ...Show more
Hope & Memory : Reflections on the Twentieth Century by Tzvetan Todorov (tr David Bellos)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and ...Show more
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: The Amazing Adventure of Translation by David Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This question is at the heart of David Bellos' funny, wise and life-affirming language book, which shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and make ...Show more
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
$39.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation t ...Show more
Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables by David Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
GUARDIAN AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017 'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues ...Show more
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon; David Bellos (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianIn Simenon's iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is tak ...Show more
Things Story of the Sixties with a Man Asleep by Georges Perec; David Bellos (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Things- A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation. In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing ...Show more
Twilight of the Eastern Gods by Kadare, Ismail, Bellos, Professor of French Studies David (Princeton University University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester University of Manchester
$37.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Who Owns This Sentence? - A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos; Alexandre Montagu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpa ...Show more
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