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  • Essay on Gardens

    A Chapter in the French Picturesque

    by Claude-Henri Watelet, Samuel Danon ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Essay on Gardens

    A Chapter in the French Picturesque

    by Claude-Henri Watelet, Samuel Danon ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition

    by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner ...
    For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are intellectual equals, ... Read more

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  • Essays Two

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    A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia DavisIn Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, ... Read more

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  • Reveries of the Solitary Walker

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Russell Goulbourne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher determines to keep a faithful record of the thoughts and ideas that come to him on his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Unquiet Grave

    by Palinurus ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Western Attitudes toward Death

    From the Middle Ages to the Present

    by Philippe Ariès ...
    Translated by Patricia Ranum ...
    Series Book 3 - The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
    Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times. ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • A History of Silence

    From the Renaissance to the Present Day

    by Alain Corbin ...
    Translated by Jean Birrell ...
    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

    by Vincent Van Gogh ...
    Though completely unappreciated during his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most recognizable names in the art world today. Though it would make sense that Van Gogh's life would be greatly undocumented, this is not the case. "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh" is a collection of the correspondences between Van Gogh and his brother, Theo, that gives an incredibly enthralling look ... Read more

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  • Against Nature

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and ... Read more

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  • The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist

    by Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran ...
    The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist aims to teach the reader how to memorise things like form and colour composition so that they may draw and paint from memory alone.This fantastic guide is highly recommended for all artists, and it would make for a worthy addition to allied collections.The contents include:Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Idiocy

    Stephen Bayley

    by Stephen Bayley ...
    'I am fascinated.' Andrew Marr, Start the Week, Radio 4 'Wonderful' The Times 'Intelligent.' Independent 'Current.' Sunday Telegraph Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. In this compelling A-Z of modern ignorance, Stephen Bayley gathers silly, curious and sometimes shocking facts on everything that makes our world tick. Why does Judeo ... Read more

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