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  • April Harvest, Swans, and Joys
    Francis Vielé-Griffin / Richard Robinson
    This is an English-language translation of the first, second, and fourth books of poetry by Francis Vielé-Griffin (AD 1864-1937): April Harvest (Cueille dʼavril, 1885), Swans (Les Cygnes, 1887), and Joys (Joies, 1889) from the early years of the French poetʼs life.Francis Vielé-Griffin was an American by birth, having been born in Virginia. As a boy of seven or eight years old,...
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    32,97 €

  • A Measure of Breath
    M. R. Robinson / Mark Richard Robinson
    On a train journey to a church disciplinary meeting, a minister carries the weight of illness, memory, and the quiet ache of betrayal. A Measure of Breath is a contemplative novel that explores what it means to lead when one’s own wounds remain unhealed—and when silence in sacred spaces has done deep harm.As the train moves forward, so does a reckoning. Through memo...
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    10,43 €

  • The Resurrection of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    The Resurrection of Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam, by Léon Bloy, originally published in 1906, 15 years after Villiersʼ passing, is as much an homage to Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam - his literary corpus and genius - as it is a plea to Thomas Edison to help subscribe monetarily to the statue, sculpted in marble, by Frédéric Brou. 'And now, itʼs to you that I address myself, Thomas Alva Ed...
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    15,67 €

  • Blood of the Poor
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    Blood of the Poor (originally Le Sang du pauvre), by Catholic writer Léon Bloy, is perhaps the hardest to read of Léon Bloyʼs writings, as it goes straight to the heart of the matter of what is wrong in the world. It is hard to read, emotively, because it gives the honest reader no room for cover, no space for shelter, no shadow of a tree to hide under. With avarice as its subj...
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    20,35 €

  • Filippo Corridoni
    Alceste de Ambris / Richard Robinson
    Filippo Corridoni by Alceste de Ambris is a biography of Filippo Corridoni (AD 1887-1915), the charismatic, indefatigable Italian revolutionary syndicalist, and head of the Syndicalist Union of Milan.'A magnificent agitator, a daring and expert leader of crowds,' he was also an anti-militarist, but when WWI broke out, he advocated for Italyʼs intervention, volunteering himself ...
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    15,96 €

  • What Is Fascism
    Sergio Panunzio / Richard Robinson
    What Is Fascism by Sergio Panunzio (originally published in 1924 as Che cosʼè il fascismo in Italian) is, as the title suggests, an attempt to explain and define, not only what the term 'fascism' means, but also the political movement it named, together with the historical circumstances that led up to it.Of Fascism, Panunzio says, 'it is a movement unto itself, original, atypic...
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    16,46 €

  • Italian Nationalism
    Enrico Corradini / Richard Robinson
    Italian Nationalism is a series of talks given by Enrico Corradini between 1908 and 1914 on the subject of Italian nationalism. But nationalism did not exist in a vacuum then, or now - it coexisted and competed with other political, economic, and social movements and ideas, including socialism, liberalism, democracy, to be sure, but also imperialism, internationalism, European ...
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    27,82 €

  • A Platonic Love
    Paul Alexis / Richard Robinson
    A Platonic Love is Paul Alexisʼ novel, or novella, about the unrequited love between a mature man of means, Mr. Mure, who is fifteen years the senior of the beautiful Helen, a woman heʼs known since she was a child. It was published originally in 1886 as Un amour platonique (but even earlier, in 1880, under the title Journal de Monsieur Mure).Paul Alexisʼ touch is fine, his sty...
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    21,65 €

  • Fallacies
    William of Ockham / Richard Robinson
    Fallacies, by William of Ockham (AD 1287-1347), is the last book (Part 3, Book 4) of the Summa Logicae (Summary of Logic), a medieval textbook on syllogistic logic which is divided into three parts: terms, propositions and syllogisms, broadly speaking.Fallacies is the medieval nominalistʼs response to Aristotleʼs Sophistical Refutations (De Sophisticis Elenchis). It treats of t...
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    26,75 €

  • Divine Consciousness
    Richard Thomas Robinson
    Divine Consciousness is a personal presentation about a renewed heart that suffered from the wounds of emotional and physical abuse. Everyone experiences tragedy to some degree in their life. Learning how to respond to the consequences is what matters. Through a series of soul-searching essays and letters inspired by the word of God and the writings of the great saints, the Aut...
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    12,13 €

  • Great Men Are Slain Here
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    Great Men Are Slain Here by Léon Bloy is a biography of sorts on Ernest Hello. Originally published in AD 1895 (under the French title of Ici on assassine les grands hommes), it was meant to provide a necessary corrective to the 'official' biography commissioned by Mme. Hello, after her husbandʼs passing.Léon Bloy was not a fan of Mme. Hello (nor she of him), and he was even le...
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    11,92 €

  • The Ungrateful Beggar
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    The Ungrateful Beggar (The Authorʼs Journal, 1892-1895), published in 1898, is the first in the Ungrateful Beggar series (or 'The Journal') by Léon Bloy.Edited for publication by the author, it is a day-by-day account of interactions with friends, artists, wife, children, publishers, landlords, and such events as his hiring on with (and getting sacked from) the Gil Blas, his wr...
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    50,15 €

  • Cracking the Data Code
    Richard C. Robinson
    Why do we continue to struggle with data? With all the powerful tools we have in processing power, data tools, and computer programming, we still search for some elusive truth to pervasive problems. AI hallucinates, ’good data’ that we started with is suddenly unintelligible, systems that should talk to each other seamlessly continually experience errors and need correction.W...
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    27,22 €

  • Antisthenes
    Charles Chappuis / Richard Robinson
    Antisthenes: The Founder of Cynicism by Charles Chappuis is a little gem of a book; translated from the French, it puts Antisthenes (444-365 BC), the founder of the Cynic school of Greek philosophy, in his rightful place beside Socrates, his teacher for twenty-four years; beside Plato, a fellow pupil of Socrates and competitor in ideas to Antisthenes: while Plato was teaching a...
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    21,57 €

  • Business Ethics
    Richard M. Robinson
    This book offers students a philosophical introduction to the ethical foundations of business management.  It combines lessons from Kant with virtue ethics and also touches upon additional approaches such as utilitarianism. At the core of the book lies the concept of the 'nexus of imperfect managerial duty.' This consists of the creation and reinforcement of virtuous managerial...
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    159,82 €

  • Early Poetry
    Auguste de Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam / Richard Robinson
    Early Poetry by Auguste de Villiers de lʼIsle-Adam (AD 1838-1889) was first published in 1859 (as Premières poésies in French). It contains, as explained in the preface, Villiersʼ poetry written before his twentieth year: 'The author of this volume is nineteen years old. - It is... with a certain modesty that he releases these first pages.' He need not have been so modest. The ...
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    21,60 €

  • The Perverted Peasant
    Restif de la Bretonne / Richard Robinson
    The Perverted Peasant, or The Dangers of the City, Parts 1 and 2 (of 8) by Restif de la Bretonne is the story of a young man from the countryside, from a family of tenant farmers, who moves to the city to learn his trade (painting). He is handsome, virtuous, charming, intelligent, and by all accounts someone who will make his way in the world and a name for himself.He is not so...
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    25,12 €

  • Voyage in France by a Frenchman
    Paul Verlaine / Richard Robinson
    Voyage in France by a Frenchman by Paul Verlaine (Voyage en France par un Français) was written in 1880, but only published posthumously for the first time in 1907.From the preface by Louis Loviot:'Voyage in France by a Frenchman has remained unknown to Verlaine biographers; the title itself can be found mentioned only on the liminary page of the first edition of Sagesse, publi...
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    17,77 €

  • Fredegund, France
    Richard Robinson
    Fredegund, France is the second book of poetry written by American poet Richard Robinson. The poetry is both modern and not so modern. The theme is France, but a different kind of France than what one might visit today, or yesterday even. Itʼs a France in the mind. Or itʼs a place where France and the mind cross. In his own words, in the preface, the author says: 'What can I sa...
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    14,57 €

  • The Sylph
    Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon / Richard Robinson
    The Sylph, by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (fils) is an English translation of a little gem of a short story and libertine work first published in 1730, from the French (Le Sylphe, ou Songe de Madame de R*** écrit par elle-même à Madame de S***). Sylphs or Sylphids are, as most people do not know, elemental aery creatures, or spirits, not unlike faeries or nymphs even. Un...
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    15,33 €

  • On the Threshold of the Apocalypse
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    On the Threshold of the Apocalypse: 1913-1915 is the seventh volume from Léon Bloyʼs personal journal begun in 1892. This volume begins one year before World War I began, but ends, like the author (who passed in 1917), before the great war ended. Often prescient when it comes to the European stage, and particularly the imminent threat posed by Prussian Germany, with respect to ...
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    37,40 €

  • Ourigan, Oregon
    Richard Robinson / William Clark
    Ourigan, Oregon is a collection of poems, divided into two distinct groups, distinct in terms of time and temperament, but also wildly different in style, influence, and purpose. They were written by two different authors over two hundred years apart: William Clark of the Corps of Discovery, in 1804-1806, and an anonymous author, possibly posthumous, and seemingly from Portland...
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    14,77 €

  • Style
    Ernest Hello / Richard Robinson
    Style (Theory and History), written by Ernest Hello, and published in 1861, is a collection of essays on the subject of... style; it is page after page of keen psychological insight into men, minds, God, art, life, and other things.Helloʼs style itself, - contrary to what one might think from the rather boring title - runs the gamut from trenchant, mocking, playful, masterly, t...
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    22,64 €

  • Windows and Doors
    Richard Robinson
    Windows and Doors is Richard Robinsonʼs third book of poetry, written between 2022 and 2024. The poetry is both modern and not so modern. You could compare it to a book of sacred and profane verse cowritten by Robert Herrick and Ezra Pound while both are half-inebriated and imitating Arnaut Daniel and Paul Verlaine (anachronically of course). A sample would be illustrative:I am...
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    12,26 €

  • Flowers of Bitumen
    Émile Goudeau / Richard Robinson
    Flowers of Bitumen (Fleurs du Bitume in French) is the first volume of poetry, published in 1878, by Émile Goudeau, who is best known as the founder the Hydropaths Club, a widely-successful literary club in Paris from 1878-1880, and subsequently as the influential editor-in-chief of the world-famous Chat Noir journal.Léon Bloy, his cousin, says this of him: he 'is the lover, at...
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    20,40 €

  • On Huysmans’ Tomb
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    On Huysmansʼ Tomb (Sur la tombe de Huysmans originally) is a collection of critical essays written by Léon Bloy about his erstwhile friend, Joris-Karl Huysmans. Written between 1884 and 1893, and published in book form in 1913, six years after Huysmansʼ death, it is an appraisal of Huysmans himself and his most important work at that time: À Rebours, En Rade, Là-Bas, - as nobod...
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    14,70 €

  • The Revealer of the Globe
    Léon Bloy / Richard Robinson
    Written and published in 1884, Léon Bloyʼs The Revealer of the Globe: Christopher Columbus and His Future Beatification is an attempt by the author to renew the Cause for Canonization of Christopher Columbus. This is part one of that work. It includes a preface by Jules Barbey dʼAurevilly. To read this book today feels sometimes like reading a book written only yesterday. Chris...
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    17,80 €

  • Theresa the Philosopher & The Carmelite Extern Nun
    Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon / Marquis dʼArgens / Richard Robinson
    Theresa the Philosopher, by the marquis dʼArgens (purportedly), was published in 1748, over 270 years ago - before the modern era, before the Napoleonic phenomenon, before the Directorate, before the French Revolution. It is a happy tale with a happy ending, with not a little bit of hanky-panky slapped in between. Compared to Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, published in 1740, which...
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    20,14 €

  • Joys
    France Vielé-Griffin / Richard Robinson
    Joys (Joies in French) is the fourth book of poetry written by Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864-1937). It was first published in 1889, when Griffin was 25 years old. Griffin was American by birth, born in Virginia. As a boy of seven or eight years old, he was sent to France by his father to attend school; he remained.Francis Vielé-Griffin was an adherent, and one of the principal an...
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    14,54 €

  • Cull of April
    Francis Vielé-Griffin / Richard Robinson
    Cull of April (Cueille dʼavril in French) is the first book of poetry written by Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864-1937). It was first published in 1885, when Griffin was 21 years old. Griffin was American by birth, born in Virginia. As a boy of seven or eight years old, he was sent to France to attend school; he remained.Cull of April is said to show influences of the Decadent schoo...
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    14,54 €


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