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    Travels in the Americas

    Albert Camus

    Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.

    In March 1946, the young Albert…

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    Seeing Baya

    Alice Kaplan

    The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.

    On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker…

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    States of Plague

    Alice Kaplan, Laura Marris

    States of Plague examines Albert Camus's novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.

    As one of…

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    Committed Writings

    Albert Camus

    A collection that includes some of Camus’ most brilliant political writing

    This volume contains some of Camus’ most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role…

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    Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    Alice Kaplan

    A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century’s most ubiquitous novel.

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    Dreaming in French

    Alice Kaplan

    Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a family of modest means. Angela Davis, a French…

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    The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

    Alice Kaplan

    Robert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or…

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    The Interpreter

    Alice Kaplan

    The US Army executed seventy of its own soldiers between 1943 and 1946 - almost all of them black. This work narrates two different trials: one of a white officer…

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    French Lessons: A Memoir

    Alice Kaplan

    Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a…

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    Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    Alice Kaplan

    A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century’s most ubiquitous novel.

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    Celine, U.S.A.

    Alice Kaplan

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    States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic

    Professor Alice Kaplan,Laura Marris

    States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our…

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    The Difficulty of Being a Dog

    Roger Grenier

    From Ulysses’ Argo to Freud’s Lun, these stories explore the mysterious and often intense relationship between human beings and dogs. Illustrating a broad knowledge of literary dog lovers, and elaborating…

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    Palace of Books

    Roger Grenier

    Invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses alike.

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    Palace of Books

    Roger Grenier

    Invites us to explore the domain of literature, its sweeping vistas and hidden recesses alike.

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    Madame Proust: A Biography

    Evelyne Bloch-Dano

    Aims to acquaint Proust fans with Jeanne Weil Proust. This book captures the life and times of Proust’s mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer’s…

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    Blood Dark

    Alice Kaplan,Louis Guilloux,Peter Bush

    Tells the story of a brilliant and provocative philosopher trapped in a provincial town and of his spiraling descent into self-destruction. This title describes how Cripure manages to embroil himself.

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    Algerian Chronicles

    Albert Camus

    More than 50 years after independence, Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in…

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    Travels in the Americas

    Albert Camus

    Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation.

    In March 1946, the young Albert…

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    Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life

    Alice Yaeger Kaplan

    Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of…

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    Paper Gardens: A Stroll through French Literature

    Evelyne Bloch-Dano

    From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Marcel Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Patrick Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as…

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    Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology - Honoring the Human-Animal Bond Second Edition

    Villalobos,Laurie Kaplan

    Canine and Feline Geriatric Oncology provides a thorough update to the only book covering oncology in geriatric dogs and cats, with more information on palliative and hospice care.

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