Overview :Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating infl... Read More
Overview :Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an... Read More
Overview :A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular wo... Read More
Overview :Honore de Balzac was one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived, and now at last he has a biography that tells his story in a way Balza... Read More
Overview :Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography.--W... Read More
Overview :Interweaving personal and historical narratives and making use of contemporary sources, Graham Robb's lively exploration of Britain through ... Read More
Overview :The author describes what life was like growing up in the Riverina region of NSW and Victoria, Australia, during the 1940-1960's. From his p... Read More
Overview :A narrative of exploration--full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants--that explains the enduring fascination of France. Whil... Read More
Overview :The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before S... Read More
Overview :An oft-overlooked region lies at the heart of British national history: the Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Gr... Read More
Overview :Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred... Read More
Overview :A narrative of exploration-- full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants-- that explains the enduring fascination of France. Wh... Read More
Overview :Almost a century after the death of the French poet St phane Mallarm , readers still puzzle over his writings, still seek to understand his ... Read More
Overview :Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography.--W... Read More