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The long-awaited final volume in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time—one of the world’s most beloved works of literature“The greatest literary work of the twentieth century.” —The New York TimesA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edge... Read More about Finding Time Again: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

This remarkable book, written soon after the French Revolution, has traditionally been considered one of the founding documents in the history of socialism. It introduces the best known and most extraordinary Utopia written in the past two centuries. Charles Fourier was among the first to formulate ... Read More about Fourier: 'The Theory of the Four Movements' (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

This book examines the nature and operation of social thought and language as used in everyday life, and looks at social thinking through the complex patternings and functions of discourse. It is based on extensive empirical evidence about the language of contemporary racism and nationalism, drawn f... Read More about Speech and Reasoning in Everyday Life (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible account of rural life in seventeenth-century France. Much of the very latest scholarship is incorporated... Read More about The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century

This innovative study argues convincingly that intelligence is essentially a plural concept, socially and historically determined, and that it can only be fully understood when the socio-psychological foundations of intelligence have been explored. Using a carefully developed questionnaire technique... Read More about Social Representations of Intelligence (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted... Read More about War and Literature (Essays and Studies #67)