Cultural Region/French
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A Tale of Two Cities
$11.95 Add to cartIn this exciting novel set during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens expresses sympathy for the downtrodden poor and their outrage at the self-indulgent aristocracy. But Dickens is no friend of th
- Series: Ignatius Critical Editions
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: April 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1586174428
- Language: English
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A Secret Kept
$25.00 Add to cartThis stunning novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sarah’s Key, plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change ev
- Author: De Rosnay, Tatiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0312553498
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame of Paris
$15.00 Read moreMore 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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The Girl with No Shadow
$16.99 Add to cartThe wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher’s every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Harris, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 006143163X
- Language: English
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The Life Before Us
$16.95 Add to cartMomo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores’ children at Madame Rosa’s boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and a… [more below]
- Author: Gary, Romain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0811232417
- Language: English
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The Resistance Man: A Mystery of the French Countryside
$18.00 Add to cartAnother delightful installment in the internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.
It’s summer in St. Denis for chief of police Bruno Courr?es, and that means a new season of case- Series: Bruno, Chief of Police #7
- Author: Walker, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0345804805
- 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 Beginners
$16.95 Add to cartAnna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarr… [more below]
- Author: Serre, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230317
- 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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The Book of Salt
$19.99 Add to cartA novel of Paris in the 1930s from the eyes of the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, by the author of The Sweetest Fruits.
Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage
- Author: Truong, Monique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0618446885
- Language: English
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
$12.95 Add to cart“I am going to sink it.”
French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, b
“You are not!”
“I am,” he coldly replied. “Do not take it on yourself to judge me, monsieur.”- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 198818645
- Language: English
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The Cook
$19.00 Add to cart“A slim, bountiful, beautifully written (and gorgeously translated) ‘Portrait of the Chef as a Young Man.'” –Nancy Klinke, The New York Times Book Review
One of BBC Culture’s Ten Books to Read this Ma- Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 125025115X
- Language: English
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Lupin
$9.95 Read moreThe first collection of short stories by French novelist Maurice Leblanc — and the inspiration for countless retellings, interpretations, and adaptations in film, television, comic books, games, and … [more below]
- Author: LeBlanc, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0486849252
- Language: English
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The Caves of Perigord
$24.95 Add to cartIn a brilliant and ambitious thriller that combines elements of Jean Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear and Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth into a riveting, multifaceted tale of love, art, courag… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 22 2009
- ISBN10: 1439181233
- Language: English
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Chéri and the End of Chéri
$16.95 Read moreCh?ri and its sequel, The End of Ch?ri, mark Colette’s finest achievements in their brilliant, subtle, and frank investigations of love and power. Set in the Parisian demimonde in the last days of th
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052058
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$12.95 Add to cartThis new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199539022
- Language: English
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The Phantom of the Opera
$14.99 Add to cart“One of the most famous ghost stories that no one has actually read” (New York Times), The Phantom of the Opera is the first in the Haunted Library Horror Classics series presented by the Horror Write
- Series: Haunted Library
- Author: LeRoux, Gaston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1492699683
- 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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Sentimental Education
$12.00 Add to cartOne of the great French novels of the 19th century
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0140447970
- 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
