Plunkett Press: 164 books

Cover of The Schlumberger Adventure
by Anne Gruner Schlumberger
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

“My purpose in writing the present book is to give the ‘human side’ of the story of the men whose achievements spread the Schlumberger method to the four corners of the globe.” — from the Preface by Anne Gruner Schlumberger The author, whose father Conrad Schlumberger and uncle Marcel...
Cover of Under A Cruel Star: A Life In Prague 1941-1968
by Heda Margolius Kovály
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály (68,000 words and 8 photographs) "A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century." San Francisco Chronicle "Once in a rare while we read...
Cover of The Question
by Henri Alleg
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

The Question by Henri Alleg (with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre; translated from the French by John Calder; with an afterword by the author, a foreword by Ellen Ray and an introduction by James D. Le Sueur; 27,000 words) Henri Alleg’s candid account of how the French Army brutally...
Cover of Outwitting the Gestapo
by Lucie Aubrac, Konrad Bieber, Betsy Wing
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015

Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), born Bernard into a Catholic family of winegrowers, was teaching history in a Lyon high school and newly married to Raymond Samuel, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement...
Cover of Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

A Life in a New Language

by Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words) The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound." Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation:...
Cover of Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words) This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary scholarship and teaching, he championed medieval studies, modern masters like Matisse and Picasso...
Cover of Defying Hitler: A Memoir
by Sebastian Haffner, Oliver Pretzel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Oliver Pretzel; 78,000 words and 15 photographs) Defying Hitler was written in 1939 and focuses on the year 1933, when, as Hitler assumed power, its author was a 25-year-old German law student, in training to join the German...
Cover of The Pillar of Salt
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi (with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Albert Camus; translated from the French by Edouard Roditi; 114,000 words) When The Pillar of Salt was first published in 1953, it caused a scandal in Tunis. Acclaimed sociologist Albert Memmi, the son...
Cover of The Colonizer and the Colonized
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Howard Greenfeld; introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre; 39,000 words) Written in 1956 when Morocco and Tunisia gained independence from France and soon after the Algerian war had started, this book describes the inescapable...
Cover of Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (Book One)
by Shmuel Katz
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014

Shmuel Katz’s detailed and comprehensive biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940) is an unabashedly partisan defense of one of the most complex Zionists of the early 20th century. Jabotinsky was a Russian poet, playwright, journalist, and novelist as well as the founder of Revisionist Zionism...
Cover of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
by Ernest Jones, Lionel Trilling, Steven Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, edited and abridged in one volume by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus (244,000 words, 31 illustrations) Ernest Jones’s three-volume The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was first published in the mid-1950s. This edited and abridged volume...
Cover of A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
by Susan Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney by Susan Quinn (165,000 words, 35 photos) Karen Horney (1885-1952) is one of the great figures in psychoanalysis, an independent thinker who dared to take issue with Freud's views on women. One of the first female medical students in Germany, and...
Cover of Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

The Portrait of an Average Woman

by Stefan Zweig
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 186,000 words, 14 illustrations) Originally...
Cover of Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians by Helen Epstein (92,000 words) A collection of profiles of some of the world's most fascinating musicians, including the late Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Dorothy DeLay and the very lively James Galway and Yo-Yo Ma. Passed from hand...
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