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Other Collections

There are also bilingual collections on the history of France, the classic medieval period or classical English texts (bilingual edition of the complete works by Shakespeare). In addition, authors such as François Malherbe are published.

  • The Collection "Interactions psychoanalytic" was created in 1976
  • The Collection "Realia", directed by Jean-Noel Robert in 1983, offers popular works (e.g. Pleasures in Rome, the same author)
  • The collection "History" features works by French authors (e.g., Pierre Vidal-Naquet ) and numerous translations of foreign works
  • The "Science and Humanism" are edited and translated scientific texts of the Renaissance and the classical age: Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Campanella, Isaac Newton, etc.
  • The series "The Wheel books" provides translations of ancient and Renaissance authors, but without the original text
  • The collection "The Golden Ass" features works from the history of ideas, dedicated to Immanuel Kant, Giordano Bruno, astronomy, and history of medicine
  • The series "Classics of the North", directed by Régis Boyer, provides translations of texts from Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic literature
  • The Collection "Guides Belles Lettres of Civilizations" offers travel guides in time to discover the pre-Columbian America, the Iceland of the Vikings rule or the Brahmins of India
  • The series "Leave it", directed by François Guillaumat, and the series' classic Library of Liberty ", directed by Alain Laurent, publish liberal authors, such as Frederic Bastiat, Yves Guyot or Benjamin Constant
  • The series "Classics in his pocket," directed by Helen Monsacré, in 2006, reissued titles of "CUF" pocket-sized form of bilingual editions feature a less abundant set of notes

With the Hors collection, Oxford University Press published the complete works of Giordano Bruno and Petrarch as a bilingual edition. There are also authors such as Jean-Edern Hallier, Philippe Leotard or Francis Lalanne. One hundred books are published each year by Oxford University Press.

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