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  • Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Blaise Pascal ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Intended to convert religiously indifferent readers to Christianity, Pascal's Pensees were published posthumously to wide and ongoing acclaim. This selection of highlights from the Pensees focuses on their most secular aspects, including extensive coverage of the author's sensitive examination of human psychology and his much-appreciated epigrams. Pascal's Provincial Letters, written in 1656 and ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Lazarillo de Tormes

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Anonymous ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogue's adventures and misadventures — full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and wordplay. Introduction, Notes, and new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Winckelmann's Images from the Ancient World

    Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian

    by Johann Joachim Winckelmann ...
    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    Compiled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication boasts more than 200 outstanding engravings of ancient monuments. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, an eighteenth-century scholar who devoted his life to the study of ancient art, was the first to outline the distinctions between works of Egyptian, Etruscan, Roman, and Greek origin. Drawing upon his encyclopedic knowledge of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Spanish-American Short Stories / Cuentos hispanoamericanos

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    These seventeen stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles — from worldly sophistication to outright savagery. Ranging in publication dates from 1867 to 1922, each story is by a different writer from a different country. All are well-known names in Spanish-American literature — Rubén Darío, José Martí, Amado ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum, James Camner ...
    Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers — the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters' classic triumphs and whose names were on everybody's lips a few decades ago have been all but forgotten. Now, with this book, you can take a fascinating journey into the days when Lillian Russell and Frank Daniels, or ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • First Italian Reader

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Italian
    Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, it features the works of Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and fifty-two others in both the original Italian and expert English translations on the facing pages. Selections include excerpts from poetry, fiction, history, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Second Spanish Reader

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. It introduces such authors as Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Alarcón, Unamuno, and Darío, and such works as El buscón, Cartas marruecas, El estudiante de Salamanca, and Santa. Contents include plays, lyric and narrative verse, and prose ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The New Life/La Vita Nuova

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    An exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul's crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers.In this masterpiece of his youth, Dante assembles a selection of his love poems within a prose framework that situates them ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Antonio Machado ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 — a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish-American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language German
    At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city’s natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka, whose fiction is synonymous with the anguish of modern life; and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose stories unfold in the same transcendent lyricism as his verse.Twelve of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

    A Photographic Record

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds (now Jackson Park) to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et en prose

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Charles Perrault ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    Based on the folkloric tales told by the widowed author to his motherless brood, this collection of traditional stories first appeared under Charles Perrault's name in the 18th century. In the fine tradition of Aesop, the fables enlighten as well as entertain, imparting practical moral advice. This dual-language edition features accurate new English translations on the pages facing the original ... Read more

    $10.69 USD