Cultural Region/French
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The Heart
$18.00 Add to cartOne of Bill Gates’ “Five Best Summer Reads”
The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living, directed by Katell Quillévéré and starring Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner Albertine Pri- Author: De Kerangal, Maylis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250117917
- Language: English
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The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School/Claudine in Paris/Claudine Married/Claudine and Annie
$21.00 Add to cartThe stories that inspired the film Colette, directed by Wash Westmoreland and starring Keira Knightley.
Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School,- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0374528039
- Language: English
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My Manservant and Me
$15.95 Add to cartA madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century’s most beloved French gay writers.
My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written f… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621521
- Language: English
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Dark Arena: The Frenchman Returns
$17.99 Read moreA high-stakes thriller that could be ripped from today’s headlines–from the bestselling author of The Frenchman.
Alec de Payns, espionage operative of the Y Division of the DGSE, France’s famed foreig
- Series: Frenchman #2
- Author: Beaumont, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79821E+12
- Language: English
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Pierrot Mon Ami
$16.95 Add to cartPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974613
- Language: English
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French Short Stories for Beginners: 10 Exciting Short Stories to Easily Learn French & Improve Your Vocabulary
$14.99 Add to cartIf you want to know the biggest secret to learning French fast, then keep reading…
As a beginner, in fact, studying with boring textbooks with confusing grammar and conjugations can make you feel los
- Series: Easy French Stories Book #2
- Author: Language Learning, Touri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1953149243
- Language: English
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Arsène Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes
$9.95 Add to cartGentleman thief and detective Ars?ne Lupin conspires to match wits with the great Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes in Maurice Leblanc’s second collection of short stories. Brilliantly capturing eac… [more below]
- Series: Dover Mystery Classics
- Author: LeBlanc, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0486850021
- 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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A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time
$26.95 Add to cartA continuation of the very popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant volume featuring classics by Guy de Ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Christmas #2
- Author: de Maupassant, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1939931509
- 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 Masterpiece
$12.95 Add to cartThe Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536910
- Language: English
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Swann in Love, Deluxe Edition
$19.95 Read moreStunning new edition of the standalone novella from Proust’s great masterpiece – an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy
This landmark new translation commemorates a century since th- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1782278508
- 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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Paris Encore
$15.99 Add to cartThis description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo.
These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director’s cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene cla… [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #8
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1414305443
- Language: English
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Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
$18.00 Read more“Elegant. Unpretentious. Approachable. . . . He is, all in all, quite an endearing Nobelist.”–Michael Dirda, Washington Post
“Modiano is a pure original.”–Adam Thirlwell, The Guardian “A fine introd- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Modiano, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0300198051
- Language: English
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Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man
$19.95 Add to cartA fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsroman
Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1517914132
- Language: English
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The Seventh Function of Language
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) comes a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century.
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland- Author: Binet, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1250181682
- Language: English
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The Postcard
$18.95 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF 2023
TIME Magazine・NPR・Library Journal・The Globe and Mail・Lilith・Forward Magazine・Toronto Star・The New Yorker“A testament to the power of
- Author: Berest, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660354
- Language: English
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man
$8.95 Read moreBefore hearing my death sentence I was aware that my lungs breathed, that my heart beat, and that my body lived in the community of other men; now, I plainly saw that a barrier had sprung up between t… [more below]
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0486469980
- Language: English
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Champagne Widows
$18.00 Add to cartChampagne, France, 1800. Twenty-year-old Barbe-Nicole inherited Le Nez (an uncanny sense of smell) from her great-grandfather, a renowned champagne maker. Determined to use Le Nez to make great champa
- Author: Rosenberg, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1732969914
- Language: English
