Cultural Region/French
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A Moveable Feast
$26.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published po- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0684833638
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
$6.99 Add to cartThis is Edmond Rostand’s immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII’s reign, it is the moving and exciting dram… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 1950
- ISBN10: 0553213601
- Language: English
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The Complete Bordeaux: 4th Edition: The Wines, the Chateaux, the People
$75.00 Read moreStephen Brook’s masterly volume, now updated, is the essential reference guide to the wines of Bordeaux.
The wines of Bordeaux are universally recognized as being among the finest in the world and in- Author: Brook, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1784727512
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$13.95 Add to cartVerlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Verlaine, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554013
- Language: English
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The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville/The Marriage of Figaro/The Guilty Mother
$12.95 Add to cartEighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to combine with Don Quixote and D’Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199539979
- Language: English
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Consent: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cart“Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury…By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” — The New York Times
- Author: Springora, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 006304790X
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Paris: The Romance Capital of the World
$8.95 Read moreParis has long been in the top 3 of the most visited cities in the world, attracting a record breaking 38 million visitors in 20191. However behind the glamour and shimmer of this iconic city, Parisia
- Series: Little Book Of… #3
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1800690258
- Language: English
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartJos駱hine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; T駻騷ia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette R馗amier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarcer
- Author: Higonnet, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867951
- Language: English
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Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
$35.00 Add to cart“Peppler’s voice-driven writing is a treat. . . . This sparkling collection will delight foodies and armchair travelers alike.”–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
From James Beard Book Award finalist- Author: Peppler, Rebekah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1797219537
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097421
- Language: English
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
$17.99 Add to cartElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I c
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353400
- Language: English
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
$24.99 Add to cartThrough family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth–an all-too-human woman struggling to ba
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldsmith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327485
- Language: English
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The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers Du Cinema Years, 1962-1981
$34.95 Read moreThe writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.
One of the greatest film critics of his gener- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Daney, Serge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635901618
- Language: English
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Cannes – A Festival Virgin’s Guide (7th Edition): Attending the Cannes Film Festival, for Filmmakers and Film Industry Professionals
$29.95 Add to cartEach year in May over 200,000 people descend on the small Riviera resort town of Cannes to take part in all the glitz and glamour that is the Cannes Film Festival. The mere mention of the city instant
- Author: Craig, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1999996100
- Language: English
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Doorways of Paris
$35.99 Add to cartA photographic tour featuring the doorways of the most beautiful city in the world.
With more than three hundred photographs of Paris’s most enchanting doorways from Raquel Puig, creator of the popular
- Author: Puig, Raquel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 1945551062
- Language: English
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The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
$17.95 Add to cartThe first bilingual edition of this radically original work
Aim? C?saire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem wa
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500666
- Language: English
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Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way
$35.00 Add to cartIn Jacques P?in Fast Food My Way, the man who taught millions of Americans how to cook shares the techniques he honed in the most famous kitchens of the world to show you how to create simple, special
- Author: Pépin, Jacques
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618393129
- Language: English
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The Dream of the Earth
$16.95 Read moreThis landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1619025329
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
$16.95 Add to cartUsing historical documents and translated by R?ine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan’s contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life… [more below]
- Author: Pernoud, Regine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0812812603
- Language: English
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Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror)
$18.95 Read moreThe macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative pros
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Lautreamont, Conte De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200825
- Language: English
