Madame du Deffand and the Idiots Paperback / softback
by JAVIER MARIAS
Part of the Penguin Modern series
Paperback / softback
Description
'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour.
Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:22/02/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780241339480
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:22/02/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780241339480