Cultural Region/Western Europe
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Dead Yard
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Chain comes the riveting sequel to his acclaimed debut, Dead I Well May Be, featuring mercenary bad boy Michael Forsythe—the hero “other writers can … [more below]
- Author: McKinty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1451613245
- Language: English
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The Last Great Dance on Earth
$23.99 Add to cartThe Last Great Dance on Earth is the triumphant final volume of Sandra Gulland’s beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte. When the novel opens, Josephine and Napoleon have been marrie… [more below]
- Author: Gulland, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0684856085
- Language: English
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Villette
$17.00 Add to cartCharlotte Bront ‘s final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.
Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begin- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0307455564
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame of Paris
$15.00 Add to cartMore commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo’s Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love
In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchba- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443533
- Language: English
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Practicalities
$15.00 Add to cart“It’s the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities of life,” declares Duras in this collection of her transcribed conversations with friend Jerome Beau… [more below]
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 22 1993
- ISBN10: 0802133118
- Language: English
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The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$26.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited penultimate volume–“the very summit of Proust’s art” (Slate)–in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust’s greatest work, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth
“T- Series: In Search of Lost Time #6
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0143133705
- Language: English
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Germinal
$11.00 Add to cartThe thirteenth novel in ?mile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
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- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140447423
- Language: English
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The Pleasing Hour
$17.00 Add to cartLily King’s highly acclaimed, award-winning debut novel is the story of Rosie, an American au pair in Paris whose coming of age defies all our usual conceptions of na vet and experience. Rosie is fle… [more below]
- Author: King, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0802143741
- Language: English
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The Three Musketeers
$9.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury.
One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the ear
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260401
- Language: English
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The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and soc… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Groom, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0199586799
- Language: English
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Identity
$17.99 Add to cart“Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a spe
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0060930314
- Language: English
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Baltasar and Blimunda
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Jos? Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a “brilliant…enchanting novel” (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in… [more below]
- Author: Saramago, Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 16 1998
- ISBN10: 156005204
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Summer
$19.00 Add to cartExperience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.
In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0684837897
- Language: English
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Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
$19.00 Add to cartTwo volumes of Colette’s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.
Perhaps Colette’s best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0374527857
- Language: English
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Switzerland in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth: In the footsteps of his adventurous summer journey in 1911-with hiking suggestions
$36.00 Add to cartA journey in search of Middle-earth
In 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More
- Author: Monsch, Martin S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 29 2021
- ISBN10: 3907323025
- Language: English
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Chocolat
$17.00 Add to cartEven before it was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, Joanne Harris’ New York Times bestselling novel Chocolat entranced readers with its mix of hedonism,… [more below]
- Series: Vianne Rocher Novel #1
- Author: Harris, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140282033
- Language: English
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Five Quarters of the Orange
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Harris, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0061214604
- Language: English
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Ripley Under Water
$16.95 Add to cartNow part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, “a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened” (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393333191
- Language: English
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Tender Is the Night: A Romance
$30.00 Add to cartNow available in a beautifully designed collector’s edition, this modern classic set in the South of France after World War I is the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and the bewitching, wealthy, and … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1982147717
- Language: English
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Cat & Mouse
$30.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe-believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned.
Gary Soneji, a dying prison es… [more below]- Series: Alex Cross Novels #4
- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 22 2004
- ISBN10: 0316693294
- Language: English
