Cultural Region/French
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Mad Love
$18.95 Add to cartMad Love has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the mos… [more below]
- Series: French Modernist Library
- Author: Breton, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: October 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0803260725
- Language: English
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Seeking Whom He May Devour
$19.99 Add to cartThe second book by a major international mystery writer: this “exciting and careful whodunit is well-executed, page turning crime fiction” (Publishers Weekly).A small mountain community in the French … [more below]
- Series: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback)
- Author: Vargas, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 074328402X
- Language: English
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Have Mercy on Us All
$18.99 Add to cartThe popular Parisian mystery by the international bestselling mystery writer, Fred Vargas, whom the French have hailed as the next Henning Mankell.
In a small Parisian square, the ancient tradition of- Series: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries (Paperback)
- Author: Vargas, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 0743284011
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$9.00 Read moreAt convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that “This life of hers was as cold as an attic tha… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486292576
- Language: English
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Debt to Pleasure
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food.
Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420366
- Language: English
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A Pattern of Lies
$19.99 Add to cartA horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New Yo
- Series: Bess Crawford Mysteries #7
- Author: Todd, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062386255
- Language: English
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Daughters Beyond Command
$18.00 Read moreAn absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters during a decade of radical societal transformation
Three sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the
- Author: Olmi, Véronique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1609457900
- Language: English
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The Blood Promise: A Hugo Marston Novel
$24.95 Add to cartHugo Marston must figure out what lies hidden inside an old sailor’s chest before a 200-year-old blood promise is revealed and claims another life. In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter … [more below]
- Series: Hugo Marston Novels #3
- Author: Pryor, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1616148152
- Language: English
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
$32.95 Add to cartIn The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes’s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to dis
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 023113617X
- Language: English
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The Impersonal Adventure
$14.95 Read moreA disorienting, de Chirico-esque detective tale of curio shops and eerie antiquities, penned in France’s postwar trauma
A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and
- Author: Bealu, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1939663725
- Language: English
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The Battle
$17.00 Add to cartThe winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l’Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon’s first major defeat. The battle … [more below]
- Author: Rambaud, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138101
- Language: English
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A Good Year
$18.00 Add to cartA delightful, best-selling tale about the business and pleasure of wine, adapted into a Ridley Scott movie starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.
Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a Lond- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14, 2005
- ISBN10: 0375705627
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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Playboy
$17.95 Add to cartThe prequel to Love Me Tender, narrating Debré’s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.
I see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new.- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Debre, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 163590210X
- Language: English
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The Pure and the Impure
$17.95 Add to cartColette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, “the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography.” This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so inti… [more below]
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2000
- ISBN10: 094032248X
- Language: English
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Around the World in Eighty Days
$7.00 Read moreTaking up a challenge from his whist partners, a mysterious English gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune and abandons his quiet domestic routine to undertake a daring feat: to circle t
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0486411117
- Language: English
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
$18.00 Add to cartA year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories … [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2013
- ISBN10: 022605487X
- Language: English
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Pot Luck
$10.95 Add to cartPot Luck, Zola’s most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola rev… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538700
- Language: English
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The Disciple
$12.50 Add to cartAdrien Sixte is a reclusive intellectual known for his theories on psychological materialism. Sixte’s orderly, self-enclosed world is violently interrupted when a desperate mother petitions his help a
- Author: Bourget, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 195131915X
- Language: English
