{"product_id":"collected-works-of-paul-valery-paul-valry-9780691647098","title":"Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 1: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoems ranging from \"La Jeune Parque\" and \"Le Cimeti鑽e marin\" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Val駻y's lyric preoccupation. The bilingual edition, with David Paul's English translations facing the French texts, includes the autobiographical \"Recollection,\" quoted below, and excerpts on poetry, selected and translated from Val駻y's notebooks by James Lawler. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Val駻y turned to the discipline of poetry during the First World War, to escape from the \"commotion of a world gone mad.\" \"I fashioned myself a poetry,\" he wrote, \"that had no other law than to establish for me a way of living with myself, for a part of my days.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1971. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Val駻y\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691647097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691647098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Paul Val駻y","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925636448511,"sku":"9780691647098","price":205.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_185b17fe-25f7-4d30-812e-3db53cfe5592.jpg?v=1681078449","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/collected-works-of-paul-valery-paul-valry-9780691647098","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}