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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $6.90
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 848.508
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Publication Date: 1976-10-28
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: 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 Nephew, the eccentric and foolish nephew of the great composer Jean-Philippe Rameau meets Diderot by chance, and the two embark on a hilarious consideration of society, music, literature, politics, morality and philosophy. Its companion-piece, D'Alembert's Dream, outlines a material, atheistic view of the universe, expressed through the fevered dreams of Diderot's friend D'Alembert. Unpublished during his lifetime, both of these powerfully controversial works show Diderot to be one of the most advanced thinkers of his age, and serve as fascinating testament to the philosopher's wayward genius.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 843.5
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Publication Date: 1999-09-16
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. In the introduction to this brilliant translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with fate and examines the experimental and influential literary techniques that make Jacques the Fatalist a classic of the Enlightenment.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 843.5
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Publication Date: 1992-06-30
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Reading Level: 249
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Description: (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 843.5
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Publication Date: 1974-05-30
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause celebre 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 this masterpiece a fictitious set of desperate and pleading letters to the Marquis from a teenage girl forced into the nunnery because she is illegitimate. In these letters, the impressionable and innocent Suzanne Simonin describes the cruelty and abuse she has suffered in an institution poisoned by vicious gossip, intrigues, persecutions and deviance. Considered too subversive during Diderot's lifetime, The Nun first appeared in print in 1796 following the Revolution. Part gripping novel, part licentious portrayal of sexual fervour and part damning attack on oppressive religious institutions, it remains one of the most utterly original works of the many eighteenth-century.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $9.29
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 848.508
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Publication Date: 2008-08-15
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: In his brilliant and witty dialogue, Denis Diderot invents a chance encounter in a Paris cafe between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois figure of his interlocutor. Exuberant and highly entertaining, the dialogue exposes the corruption of society in Diderot's characteristic philosophical exploration.
The debates of the French Enlightenment speak to us vividly in this sparkling new translation, which also includes the only English translation of First Satire, a related work that provides the context for Rameau's Nephew, Diderot's 'second satire.' Edited by distinguished translator Margaret Mauldon, with lively introduction and notes by Nicholas Cronk, the edition includes, for the first time in English, extracts from Goethe's commentary on this seminal Enlightenment work. It will prove a valuable addition to the library to any lover of French literature.
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Manufacturer: Marsilio Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 843.5
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Publication Date: 1993-07
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Description: classic 1748 erotic prose work, tr Sophie Hawkes
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $10.34
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Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot::Dennis Diderot::Ralph H. Bowen
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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 848.509
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Publication Date: 2001-03
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Reading Level: 317
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Description: This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas. A reprint of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1964.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $7.85
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
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Publication Date: 2008-10-15
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Reading Level: 234
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Description: Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succes de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.
This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 700
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Publication Date: 1994-11-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: In this selection of writings, largely unpublished during Diderot's lifetime, the reader encounters the private man, an engaging character who uses his intellect critically to explore the relationship between Enlightenment thought and the arts. Often using a dialogue format, Diderot's critiques encompass an enormous range of interests in a duality of styles, spontaneous and subversive one moment, methodical and sober the next. He discusses the role of an audience with a character in his own fictitious play whilst his reflections on art and reality are illustrated by a stroll through one of his favourite landscape paintings.
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Price: $22.40
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Sale: $20.87
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Manufacturer: Losada
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Denis Diderot
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Publisher: Losada
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Publication Date: 2006-06
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