Author: Jack Londo
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: heel
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $12.65
ISBN-10: 1595690379
ISBN-13: 9781595690371

"The Iron Heel" is Jack London’s 1908 dsytopian novel about the rise of oligarchic tyranny in the United States. Playing upon the socialistic themes that were so prevalent at the beginning of the 20th century, "The Iron Heel" tells the story of a wealthy class that squeezes out the middle class and effectively rules for three centuries until a revolution ushers in the "Brotherhood of Man". As important a commentary today as when it was first written, London’s novel is a chilling depiction of a possible future world and an excellent exposition on the struggle between socio-economic

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: salambo, aka, salammbo
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1595690352
ISBN-13: 9781595690357

The novel Salammbo (published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries in the employ of Carthage in the 3rd century BC. --- An unfinished opera by Modest Mussorgsky, a silent film by Pierre Marodon and a play by Charles Ludlam are among the many adaptations of Flaubert’s novel. --- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), famous French novelist, known for his endless search for "le mot juste" (the precise word); author of Madame Bovary (1857). In 1858, in order to gather material for Salammbo,

Author: Andre Gide
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: enchaine, mal, promethee, illbound, prometheus
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $13.85
ISBN-10: 1595690808
ISBN-13: 9781595690807

The book "Prometheus Illbound" is one of the most characteristic books of Andre Gide: a work of pure intelectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of the author has full play. It is the expression of the humorous side of a mind which must be ranked among the greatest of the world’s literature. "The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea," says Gide in the epilogue of "Prometheus Illbound". This is really the explanation of the whole book and of many other books of Gide. --- Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Hi

Authors:Karl Marx, D. D. L.,
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: bonaparte, louis, brumaire, eighteenth
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1595690239
ISBN-13: 9781595690234

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx’ most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history with an eye especially upon the history of the Movement of the Proletariat together with the bourgeois and other manifestations that accompany the same and the tactics that such conditions dictate. (Excerpt from Preface)

Authors:Oscar Wilde, Anonymous,
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: erotic, classic, gay, illustrated, reverse, medal, teleny
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-03-07
List price: $13.55
ISBN-10: 1595690360
ISBN-13: 9781595690364

The homoerotic novel Teleny is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the fin du siecle. It is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. The book was published in 1893 in 200 copies by Leonard Smithers who praised it as being "the most powerful and cleverly written erotic romance which has appeared in the English language" during that era, "a book that will certainly rank as the chief of its class."

Authors:Andre Gide, Andrew Moore,
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: etroite, porte, gate, strait
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-03-08
List price: $13.85
ISBN-10: 159569062X
ISBN-13: 9781595690623

"Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- André Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide’s career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide’s work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intell

Authors:Emile Zola, Andrew Moore,
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: macquart, rougon, money
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2007-03-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1595690638
ISBN-13: 9781595690630

From the Rougon-Macquart Series: Money (L’Argent): After a disastrous speculation, Aristide Saccard was forced to sell his mansion and to cast about for means of creating a fresh fortune. Chance made him acquainted with Hamelin, an engineer whose residence in the East had suggested to him financial schemes which at once attracted the attention of Saccard. With a view to financing these schemes the Universal Bank was formed, and by force of advertising became immediately successful. Emboldened by success, Saccard launched into wild speculation... --- "Judged by the standard of popularity,