Fever by Clezio (41 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clézio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. By the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power. Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 7.68x5.08x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness. Translator(s): Woodward, Daphne. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194. . 2008. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Befriedigend. 256 Seiten; Penguin 2008 : J.M.G. Le Clà zio - tb AJ-6SMN-DHPH Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 59.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 3 working days.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 7.68x5.08x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Edition. 239 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Condition: Very Good +; Atheneum, 1966. First American Edition. A nice, bright and tightly bound copy.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. By the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power. Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. By the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clezio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power. Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Condition: New. Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain , Fever , and A Day of .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. First printing of the first American edition. Slight edgewear to price-clipped DJ with some rubbing to gloss. Very minor wear to binding and previous owner's name on front end paper. Book remains tightly bound with unmarked contents.

Paperback. Condition: Gut. Gebraucht - Gut - ungelesen,als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet, mit leichten Mängeln an Schnitt oder Einband durch Lager- oder Transportschaden, Cover aufgerissen und geknickt -Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', 'Fever', and 'A Day of Old Age'. It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 256 pp. Englisch.

First Edition, First Printing in U.K. (1966 same year as U.S.) Translated from French by Daphne Woodward. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (very faint soil top-edge) with near fine dust jacket (barely discenrable darkening of white spine; tiny crease in flap). [Stories].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. 239pp. Black boards, red cloth spine. The DJ is price clipped, light shelf wear, and has one very small chip from the removal of a sticker. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall G4.

Condition: Good. 1966. First Published in Great Britain. 239 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear and water marks to spine and panels.

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket - Good. with light wear. 1st Edition. 239 Pages. Previous Owner's Name On Title Page.

Paperback. Condition: New. In these nine unforgettable and impressionistic 'tales of little madness', the Nobel Prize-winning author Le Clézio explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. In 'The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain', a man with toothache spends the night seeking ways to disown his throbbing jaw; in 'Fever', Roch finds his mind transported by sunstroke; while in 'A Day of Old Age' little Joseph tries to comprehend the physical suffering of a dying old woman. Set in a timeless, spaceless universe, these experimental and haunting works portray the landscape of the human consciousness with dazzling verbal dexterity and power.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A nice copy of the increasingly uncommon first edition of Le Clezio's second book. While Hamish and Hamilton own the copyright to the translation, it appears this American first edition was released simultaneously with its UK counterpart. Black octavo with red cloth back strip, pictorial jacket, 239 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Condition: BUEN ESTADO. INGLES.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First U.S. Edition. A fine book in a near fine dust jacket. First end paper has a short crease from a former fold.A selection of eight stories. The author's second book and first short story collection. The first English edition and translated from French by Daphne Woodward. Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. A Fine bright copy in quarter red cloth, dark grey paper boards, in a Fine glossy black and red dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 239pp. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. Nobel Prize winner. Q22374.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition, first printing. VISIONS OF DISQUIET FROM A NOBEL LAUREATE In this haunting collection of short stories, J.M.G. Le Clézio captures the dislocation, anxiety, and sensory intensity of modern life. Originally published in French as La Fièvre (1965), Fever explores characters on the edgeof society, of sanity, of revelationrendered in taut, luminous prose. These early stories showcase the Nobel Prize winner's gift for psychological depth and atmospheric detail, offering a fever dream of alienation and insight. Quarter cloth-backed boards, in Harry Ford dust jacket ($4.95).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A collection of stories. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. First American edition. Light foxing on fore edge, else very good in a very good (fading along the spine, short closed edge tear on front panel) dust jacket.; 239 pages B0000CMZ5E.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine+. First Edition/First Printing. Superb.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Atheneum, 1966. First American Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black and red dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95), orange topstain; viii,[2],239pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, red portion of spine panel quite faded, ghost of old price sticker to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. The French Nobel laureate's second book, a collection of short stories preceded by the novel The Interrogation.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Very clean tight book but top edge bit spotted. DW has 2/9d price sticker on front flap and light biro line through 21s net price. In loose polythene protector.

1st UK edition, translated from the French by Daphne Woodward. Owner's name on front free end paper; dustjacket a little yellowed at spine; dj not price-clipped Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.