Deceit, Desire, and The Novel

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969. Second printing. Hardcover. Good. Beige cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has soil and toning to boards and spine, binding tight, text toned throughout with some small marginal marks and underlines scattered throughout.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1976. Paper Back. New. Do we choose our desires? To put a finer point on it, from where, or whom, do we borrow the desires we claim as our own? The French literary critic, historian and philosopher René Girard suggests--drawing upon a long line of mimetic theory including Plato, Aristotle, Coleridge, Freud,… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 2007. Hbk, 328pp, a new and unread copy, excellent clean tight and unmarked in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Paperback / softback. New. "Originally published in Paris in 1961 as Mensonge romantique et vaeritae romanesque."