Springer, August 1995. Hardcover. In this unique book, celebrated biographer Denis Brian draws on some of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century, in pursuit of their distinct views on life, knowledge, and the cosmos. A provocative and revealing interviewer, Brian weaves together the insights and personal stories of..... More
Dover Publications, August 1995. Oversize Softcover. From Diderot's monumental illustrated record of 18th-century European arts and sciences: elegant renderings of architectural landmarks; drawings and plans for windmills, bridges and boats; renderings of palatial interiors and furnishings; elevations and floor plans for many well-known European theaters; scenes of 18th-century craftsmen at..... More
Penguin Group, May 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause célèbre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, in an affectionate attempt to trick his friend, Diderot created..... More
Penguin Classics, October 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. (6&1/2' x 9&1/2'} In edgeworn dustjacket wit darkened spine and margins. Sticker residue front panel upper right corner. Flap not clipped. Small tears to jacket front top corner and bottom rear corner.Dark red cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Steel blue paper..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 2011. Paper Back. Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, March 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with sunned lightly sunned spine & margins. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Pale blue paper covered boards. Very deep bump to front board top edge that effects a few pages of textblock..... More
Yale University Press, April 2003. Hardcover. An examination of instances of beauty and the language that beauty inspires, written by a critic of the English language, Denis Donoghue. Small closed tear on rear of jacket. More
Alfred A. Knopf, May 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Traces the life of the influential British writer who paved the way for modernism, and discusses his ideas and their reception by his contemporaries. Donoghue, critic par excellence, tells us who's to blame for Kafka, Joyce, Beckett, Stevens, Bernhard, McCarthy and the..... More
St. Martin's, 1966. Hardcover. More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Sound binidng; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Jacket Very Good; An excellent copy. More
Yale University Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. These..... More
Bloomsbury Press, December 2008. Hardcover. In a groundbreaking new book that does for art what Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct did for linguistics, Denis Dutton overturns a century of art theory and criticism and revolutionizes our understanding of the arts. The Art Instinct combines two fascinating and contentious disciplines--art and..... More
Curtis Books, 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Penguin USA, January 1996. Cloth. Including tales of terror and the supernatural, humor, and suprising twists, Henry James's world-famous short stories are his most popular works. Now, for the first time in thirty years, the master's complete stories are again available in a handsome and authoritative collector's edition, to be..... More
Harper Perennial, June 1998. Trade Paperback. A contemporary "noir, Already Dead" is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California..... More
Harper, May 2001. Hardcover. Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world. And not an obliging, easygoing world either; but rather one in which horror and beauty exist in such proximity that they..... More
Picador, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones--streaming on Netflix. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An Economist Book of the Year An NPR 10 Best Novels of the Year From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree..... More
Picador, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones--streaming on Netflix. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An Economist Book of the Year An NPR 10 Best Novels of the Year From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree..... More
Picador, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones--streaming on Netflix. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year An Economist Book of the Year An NPR 10 Best Novels of the Year From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree..... More
Penguin Books / a Pelican Original, November 1968. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Pelican Original. Mass market paperback. Curled textblock. Previous bookstore stamp bottom of half title page. [251 pages plus three pages of advertisements]. More
Penguin; Pelican, 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with mild edgewear. Spine faded and slightly lightened. More
Oneworld Publications, March 2017. Trade Paperback. *Selected for Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club* 'Quirky and charming' Guardian For readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and young Secretly steaming open envelopes..... More
