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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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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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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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97,196 Words: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of the best short work by France’s greatest living nonfiction writer
No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020- Author: Lambert, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758092
- Language: English
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Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
$14.00 Add to cart“Evocative . . . A paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean . . . His essays . . . reveal a man of deep feeling and humanity” (The Guardian).
A short sublime book on the three things de- Author: Izzo, Jean-Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1609456033
- 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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Inspector Maigret Omnibus: Volume 1: Pietr the Latvian; The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien; The Carter of ‘la Providence’; The Grand Banks Café
$35.00 Read moreThe first annual omnibus edition in the new Penguin Inspector Maigret series, comprising four titles from the series so far: Pietr the Latvian, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, The Carter of La Provid… [more below]
- Series: Inspector Maigret
- Author: Simenon, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396881
- Language: English
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Me & Other Writing
$16.95 Add to cartA career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls “a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art.”
In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite D- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1948980029
- Language: English
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La Debacle
$15.95 Add to cartThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola’s lifetime it was the b… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198801890
- Language: English
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The King in the Golden Mask
$16.95 Read moreTwenty one of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest tales, translated to English for the first time
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gath… [more below]
- Author: Schwob, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1939663237
- Language: English
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The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
$22.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life–lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, ar- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: De Balzac, Honore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1590176642
- Language: English
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Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics
$36.95 Add to cart“One of the best storytellers who ever lived.”–Arthur C. Clarke
In one dazzling decade, French novelist Jules Verne took readers places they’d never gone before. . .the age of dinosaurs. . .the unders… [more below]
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 678
- Publish Date: January 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1438432380
- Language: English
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
$13.95 Add to cartDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld’s shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: La Rochefoucauld, François de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540004
- Language: English
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Writing Degree Zero
$16.00 Add to cartIs there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374532354
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Add to cart“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this “optimism” concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the “all for the best” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
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The Monet Cookbook: Recipes from Giverny
$40.00 Add to cartThis beautiful book presents 60 of Claude Monet’s original recipes alongside glorious reproductions of his paintings, scenes from his life in Giverny, and stunning photographs of the dishes. It’s well… [more below]
- Author: Gentner, Florence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3791382888
- Language: English
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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
$17.99 Add to cart“I’m drenched in cream, marinated in wine, basted in cognac, and thoroughly buttered by the end of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.” –Eula Biss, New York Times bestselling author of Having and Being Ha
- Author: Toklas, Alice B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0063043807
- Language: English
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Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste
$60.00 Add to cartThe debut cookbook from the first female chef in America to earn two Michelin stars
Atelier Crenn is the debut cookbook of Dominique Crenn, the first female chef in America to be awarded two Michelin- Author: Crenn, Dominique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0544444671
- Language: English
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Life in a French Country House: Entertaining for All Seasons
$55.00 Add to cartFrench tastemaker Cordelia de Castellane presents her inspirations and secrets to exquisite at-home entertaining and decor, organized according to the four seasons.
As France’s most prominent host an
- Author: de Castellane, Cordelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0847870936
- Language: English
