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Paperback. Condition: Good. This text focuses on George Wilkins Kendall, who founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837 and guided the newpaper for 30 years. It covers aspects of Kendall's career such as his editorials, and the role he played as America's first war correspondent during the Mexican War.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Perhaps one of the greatest works of French literature is Madame de Lafayette?s The Princess of Clèves, often described as the first of all ?modern? novels. This classic translation, with an introduction, by the late English novelist and biographer Nancy Mitford, was first brought out in 1951 by New Directions. It is now available as a New Directions Paperbook. Published in 1678 and written by Marie Madeleine Roche de la Vergne, Countess de Lafayette??a Parisian lady of fashion and great wit??it recreates with matchless vitality the lives and loves of the sixteenth-century courtiers of King Henry II of France. In her exquisite tapestry, we encounter such historic figures as Diane de Poitiers, the kings mistress; Catherine de Médicis, his queen; the doomed Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland. It tells the story of the consuming passion of the young Duc de Nemours for the beautiful wife of his friend the Prince of Clèves. Madame de Sévigne, the great letter writer and life-long friend of Madame de Lafayette, called The Princess of Clèves ?one of the most charming things.? It is still that??and it is also one of the truly great love stories of all literature.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This text focuses on George Wilkins Kendall, who founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837 and guided the newpaper for 30 years. It covers aspects of Kendall's career such as his editorials, and the role he played as America's first war correspondent during the Mexican War.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Perhaps one of the greatest works of French literature is Madame de Lafayette?s The Princess of Clèves, often described as the first of all ?modern? novels. This classic translation, with an introduction, by the late English novelist and biographer Nancy Mitford, was first brought out in 1951 by New Directions. It is now available as a New Directions Paperbook. Published in 1678 and written by Marie Madeleine Roche de la Vergne, Countess de Lafayette??a Parisian lady of fashion and great wit??it recreates with matchless vitality the lives and loves of the sixteenth-century courtiers of King Henry II of France. In her exquisite tapestry, we encounter such historic figures as Diane de Poitiers, the kings mistress; Catherine de Médicis, his queen; the doomed Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland. It tells the story of the consuming passion of the young Duc de Nemours for the beautiful wife of his friend the Prince of Clèves. Madame de Sévigne, the great letter writer and life-long friend of Madame de Lafayette, called The Princess of Clèves ?one of the most charming things.? It is still that??and it is also one of the truly great love stories of all literature.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Poised between the fading world of chivalric romance and a new psychological realism, Madame de Lafayette's novel of passion and self-deception marks a turning point in the history of the novel. When it first appeared - anonymously - in 1678 in the heyday of French classicism, it aroused fierce controversy among critics and readers, in particular for the extraordinary confession which forms the climax of the story. Having long been considered a classic, it is now regarded as a landmark in the history of women's writing. In this entirely new translation, The Princesse de Cleves is accompanied by two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende; the Introduction and ample notes take account of the latest critical and scholarly work.…

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