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The Nun
de Diderot, Denis
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Fair/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0140443002
- ISBN 13
- 9780140443004
- Librería
-
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1974. Wraps show light rubbing, bumping and shelfwear, with minor crease upper rear corner. Spine is cocked and has creases. Poor binding and gluing has sections not quite touching the spine, and although there are as yet no disattached pages, there will likely be such if book is not handled carefully. Translation by Leonard Tancock. Cover is detail from Lancret's "Les Lunettes" which shows nun whipping a noviate. A very controversial book in its day.. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Sinopsis
Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713, the son of a master cutler. He was originally destined for the Church but rebelled and persuaded his father to allow him to complete his education in Paris, where he graduated in 1732. For ten years Diderot was nominally a law student, but actually led a precarious bohemian but studious existence, eked out with tutoring, hack-writing and translating. His original writing began in 1746 with a number of scientific works setting out the materialist philosophy which he was to hold throughout his life. Along with his editorship of the Encyclopédie (1747-73), he wrote works on mathematics, medicine, the life sciences, economics, drama and painting, two plays and a novel, as well as his Salons (1759-81). His political writings were mainly composed around 1774 for Catherine II, at whose invitation he went to St. Petersburg. Diderot's astonishingly wide range of interests, together with his growing prediliction for the dialogue form, led to the production of his most famous works: D'Alembert's Dream , The Paradox of the Actor , Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's Nephew . During the latter part of his life Diderot received a generous pension from Catherine II, in return for which he bequeathed her his library and manuscripts. He died in 1784.
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Detalles
- Librería
- First Used Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000884
- Título
- The Nun
- Autor
- Diderot, Denis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edición
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0140443002
- ISBN 13
- 9780140443004
- Editorial
- Viking Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1974
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Palabras clave
- CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION FICTIONAL WORKS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
