Catalogue d'objets d'art et d'ameublement, tableaux, composant la collection de M. le comte R. de Ch......, coffret du XVIe siècle en cristal de roche, très-beaux bronzes Louis XV et Louis XVI, pendules..., tableaux et dessins par Ingres, Troyon, Raoux, Pater, Bassano, etc. dont la vente ... aura lieu Hotel Drouot, ... le lundi 3 mai 1869 ... par le ministère de Me Eugène Escribe, commissaire-priseur ... assité de MM. Dhios et George, experts ...


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Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement. Sculptures par Houdon, Clodion, etc.; Très-belles pendules, grands candélabres, flambeaux, bras, chenets, etc. en bronze doré du temps de Louis XVI; Pendule en vieux Sèvres; Porcelaines diverses; Faïences; Bronzes d'art; Belle horloge Louis XIV en marqueterie; Sièges en tapisserie; Beaux meubles des époques XIV, Louis XV et Louis XVI. Très-belles tapisseries. Tableaux anciens et modernes. Aquarelles. Dépendant de la succession de feu Madame la Comtesse de Montesquiou-Fezensac...


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Jewish American Literature


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A collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.







I Remember


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'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available in English to UK readers for the first time, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with 'I remember', Perec records a stream of individual memories of a childhood in post-war France, while posing wider questions about memory and nostalgia. As playful and puzzling as the best of his novels, I Remember is an ode to life: the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the sometimes trivial, as seen through the eyes of the irreplaceable Georges Perec.




The Ubu Plays


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The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise


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Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office? The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise is a hilarious account of an employee losing his identity—and possibly his sanity—as he tries to put on the most acceptable face for the corporate world,with its rigid hierarchies and hostility to new ideas. If he follows a certain course of action, so this logic goes, he will succeed—but, in accepting these conditions, are his attempts to challenge his world of work doomed from the outset? Neurotic and pessimistic, yet endearing, comic and never less than entertaining, Perec’s Woody Allen-esque underling presents an acute and penetrating vision of the world of office work, as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968.