Cultural Region/French
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de Gaulle
$26.95 Read moreWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize
In this definitive biography of the mythic general
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize
A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0674241452
- Language: English
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Emily in Paris: Paris, j’Adore!: The Official Authorized Companion to Emily’s Secret Paris
$30.00 Read moreThe official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.
Paris, J’Adore! is Emily Cooper’s diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to star- Author: Emily in Paris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316520527
- Language: English
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Yves Klein Painted Everything Blue and Wasn’t Sorry.
$17.95 Read moreA clever, quirky read-aloud biography of a leading modern artist, for kids
Artist Yves Klein always thought about how he could surprise his audience. One day, he decided that he would only paint in one
- Author: Gilberti, Fausto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1838660143
- Language: English
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Walking D-Day
$24.95 Read morePaul Reed’s latest battlefield walking guide covers the site of the largest amphibious invasion of all time, the first step in the Allied liberation of France and the rest of northwest Europe. The pla… [more below]
- Series: Battleground Europe
- Author: Reed, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2012
- ISBN10: 1848848366
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Evil
$21.95 Add to cartBanned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire’s verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable w… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0688
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0811211177
- Language: English
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Marie Curie
$8.99 Read moreNow in paperback! In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
When Marie was- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #6
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284067
- Language: English
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Cinderella
$16.99 Read moreThis brilliant edition of a timeless story is sure to become the favorite of a generation. Readers young and old will be enchanted by the vision and mastery of Kinuko Y. Craft’s luminous paintings, in… [more below]
- Author: Craft, K. Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1587170043
- Language: English
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Drawn and Quartered
$19.99 Add to cartIn this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task,… [more below]
- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1611456967
- Language: English
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The Possibility of an Island
$17.00 Add to cartA worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus-a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275213
- Language: English
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Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism
$65.00 Read moreAn exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century
Edgar Degas’s depictions of Parisian laundres- Author: Salsbury, Britany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273223
- Language: English
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Cereal City Guide: Paris
$24.99 Read moreFrom the leading independent travel and style magazine Cereal comes Cereal City Guide: Paris, a portrait of the French capital offering a finely curated edit on what to see and do for discerning trave… [more below]
- Author: Park, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1419732870
- Language: English
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Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book French
$9.99 Add to cartA favorite travel series for millions of people, this DK book contains all the key words and phrases that you may need in everyday situations when visiting France.
Go beyond just saying Bonjour (hello- Series: Ew Travel Guide Phrase Books
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462678
- Language: English
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René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
$29.95 Read moreA systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist Ren Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic de… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
- Author: Palaver, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1611860776
- Language: English
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$45.00 Read moreIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$30.00 Read more“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestsel
- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1635574919
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$12.99 Read moreExplore Dickens’ classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities.
Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in the years leading up to and durin- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0785839836
- Language: English
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The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
$21.99 Add to cart“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA).
The twen… [more below]
- Author: Bell, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0618919813
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Astragal
$16.95 Read moreAs if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps f
- Author: Sarrazin, Albertine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220737
- Language: English
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Literary Landscapes: Paris
$28.99 Read moreFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.
The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous liter
- Series: Literary Landscapes
- Author: Bliss, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0008588996
- Language: English
