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    Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character.

    The first volume of the "Collected Works" contains the important correspondence with Jacques Riviere, and Artaud's extraordinary explorations of consciousness and creativity in Umbilico Limbo and Nerve Scales, as well as essays on life and death, suicide, drugs, lunacy, religion and art, poems, manifestos, the terrifying short play The Spurt of Bloodletters and other material. This important volume is essential to an understanding of the art and theater of our time and will give endless pleasure and information to its readers. Translated and with an introduction by Victor Corti.Contents:Correspondence with Jacques Rivière --Umbilical limbo --Nerve scales --Art and death --Unpublished prose and poetry --Cup and ball --Seven letters --Appendix.

    F. Delderfield paints a majestic canvas that encompasses within its sweep the Emperor, his family, his warlords and retainers, while never losing sight of the footsore and weary ragged common soldiers on their way home to put up one last heroic fight in the face of doom.This compelling read takes you through the riches and spoils of one of histories most revered commanders, recounting the military decline of Bonaparte, the loosening of his grip on Europe and his obsession with Britain.Family, politics and military history are the focus of this masterly study by the Napoleonic scholar RF Delderfield.“Delderfield writes with gusto, enriching his narrative with innumerable citations from the memoirs and documents of the period and shrewd observations on the characters.” — Boston Globe“He has his intricate material beautifully in hand, and he writes with grace and conviction.” — Library Journal“Delderfield whips this history along in an enjoyable style that is both informal and telling.” — Literary Times and Chicagoland“The facts, the human element, the course of history are all here, told in accurate detail by a master historian.” — McClurg’s Book Review“Impressive… vivid, shrewd… This book is stamped with spirit and authority.” — London Daily TelegraphRonald Frederick Delderfield (12 February 1912 – 24 June 1972) was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television.Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

    

    

    Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.

    With remarkable lucidity, the author traces the events in the life of the boyhood friend of Louis Capet, Suger; Louis became the King of France and Suger the Abbott of St. Denis. Fat and sometimes foolish, Louis was propped and sustained by Suger, whose life was devoted to his king, his country, and his church. In the slow, patient years in which the old church of St. Denis was torn down, the new one was rebuilt with the innovative features that became popular throughout Europe - the stained glass windows, the piers and buttresses, the ribbed vaulting and soaring pillars of Gothic architecture.