Peter France is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh, the author of Politeness and Its Discontents, and the editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (June 2005)
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The Pleasure of Their Company
June 23, 2005
The Age of Conversation
by Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Teresa Waugh
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Burying the Dead
January 16, 1986
The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard A. Etlin
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In the Hell of Art
May 28, 1981
The Life of Aleksandr Blok Vol. I: The Distant Thunder by Avril Pyman
The Life of Aleksandr Blok Vol. II: The Release of Harmony by Avril Pyman
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Translating Pasternak
March 6, 1980
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Pasternak in Private
October 25, 1979
My Sister, Life and Other Poems by Boris Pasternak, edited and with texts by Olga Andreyev Carlisle, Color photographs by Inge Morath
Pasternak, A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Victor Erlich
Boris Pasternak’s Translations of Shakespeare by Anna Kay France
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Solving the Correggio Problem
November 23, 1978
The Paintings of Correggio by Cecil Gould
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Malraux and Death
December 8, 1977
Lazarus by André Malraux, translated by Terence Kilmartin
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Gazing at Death
January 22, 1976
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith
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The Dominant Doctor
June 26, 1975
Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy by Owsei Temkin
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Rousseau & Modern Tyranny
November 29, 1973
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. I: The Quest, 1712-1758 by Lester G. Crocker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. II: The Prophetic Voice, 1758-1778 by Lester G. Crocker