Literature
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
Italian in 32 Lessons
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A rapid and practical way for tourists, students, and businesspeople to master the basics of Italian and begin speaking the language.
Spanish in 32 Lessons
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“Beginners aren’t imbeciles! The boring repetition of inane exercises in ‘modern’ methods is an insult to the intelligence.” —Adrienne
Palais-Royal
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“Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched. . . . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett achieves both requisites quite splendidly.” —D. J. Enright, New York Review of Books
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
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In Maria, Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.'