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Poems and Prose (Paperback, New Impression): Gerard Hopkins Poems and Prose (Paperback, New Impression)
Gerard Hopkins; Edited by W Gardner
R299 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Intense, vital, individual, his writing is the 'terrible crystal' through which the soul, the inscape, the nature of things, may be illuminated.

Young Man in Chains (Paperback): Fran cois Mauriac Young Man in Chains (Paperback)
Fran cois Mauriac; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R387 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R65 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Questions of Precedence (Paperback): Fran cois Mauriac Questions of Precedence (Paperback)
Fran cois Mauriac; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R418 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R67 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mask of Innocence (Paperback): Fran cois Mauriac The Mask of Innocence (Paperback)
Fran cois Mauriac; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R466 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R76 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Weakling and the Enemy (Paperback): Fran cois Mauriac The Weakling and the Enemy (Paperback)
Fran cois Mauriac; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R496 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Therese Desqueyroux (Paperback): Fran cois Mauriac Therese Desqueyroux (Paperback)
Fran cois Mauriac; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R262 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amelie actress Audrey Tautou. Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. Everyone knew she'd tried to do it, but family honour was more important than the truth. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness, and wonders, has she really escaped punishment or is it only just about to begin? Francois Mauriac was born in Bordeaux in 1885. He left his university studies to devote himself to writing, and published a collection of poems, Les Mains jointes (Clasped Hands), in 1909. He married in 1913 and the following year was mobilized to serve in the First World War with the Auxilliary Medical Squad in Thessalonica. Mauriac's major literary breakthrough came in 1922 with a novel called Le Baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper). His most famous work, Therese Desqueroux, appeared in 1927 and has been made into a film twice: first in 1962, with Emmanuelle Riva in the lead role, and more recently in 2012, in a version starring Audrey Tautou. In 1933 Mauriac was elected a Member of the French Academy and in 1952 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Paris in 1970. 'A great novel ... the brilliance of its structure and the elegance of its prose never fail to take my breath away' - Beryl Bainbridge

Iron in the Soul (Paperback, [New Ed.]): Jean-Paul Sartre Iron in the Soul (Paperback, [New Ed.])
Jean-Paul Sartre; Introduction by David Caute; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R444 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R83 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A profound, subtle and terrifying piece of writing' The Times Literary Supplement

June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought and tragic men like Mathieu, who had dedicated his life to finding personal freedom, now overwhelmed by remorse and bitterness, who must learn to kill. Iron in the Soul, the third volume of Sartre's Roads to Freedom Trilogy, is a harrowing depiction of war and what it means to lose.

Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man Volume II (Paperback): Gerard Hopkins Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man Volume II (Paperback)
Gerard Hopkins; Gustave Flaubert
R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Salammbo (Paperback): Gustave Flaubert Salammbo (Paperback)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Herodias (Paperback): Gerard Hopkins Herodias (Paperback)
Gerard Hopkins; Gustave Flaubert
R167 Discovery Miles 1 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man Volume I (Paperback): Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man Volume I (Paperback)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man Complete (Paperback): Gerard Hopkins Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man Complete (Paperback)
Gerard Hopkins; Gustave Flaubert
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three Short Works the Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint-Julian, the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul (Paperback): Gustave Flaubert Three Short Works the Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint-Julian, the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul (Paperback)
Gustave Flaubert; Translated by Gerard Hopkins
R173 Discovery Miles 1 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Mauriac Reader - Including a Kiss for the Leper, Genetrix, the Desert of Love, the Knot of Vipers, and Woman of the Pharisees... A Mauriac Reader - Including a Kiss for the Leper, Genetrix, the Desert of Love, the Knot of Vipers, and Woman of the Pharisees (Paperback)
Fran cois Mauriac; Translated by Gerard Hopkins; Introduction by Wallace Fowlie
R832 R711 Discovery Miles 7 110 Save R121 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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