Cultural Region/French
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Les Misérables
$15.99 Add to cartLes Mis?rables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive amidst the poverty-stricken streets of nineteeth-century Paris.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621498
- Language: English
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Bel-Ami
$13.95 Add to cartMaupassant’s second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened “Bel-Ami” by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553939
- 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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The Crypt Thief: A Hugo Marston Novel
$18.95 Add to cartIt’s summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in P re Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison’s grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, fli… [more below]
- Series: Hugo Marston #2
- Author: Pryor, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1616147857
- Language: English
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The Girl from the Grand Hotel
$26.99 Add to cartThe #1 bestselling author of Cooking for Picasso and The Godmothers returns with The Girl from the Grand Hotel, a dazzling historical novel that brings readers into the glamorous world of the first (a
- Author: Aubray, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79821E+12
- Language: English
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War and Peace (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$35.99 Read moreWar and Peace is a literary masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy that explores the lives of several aristocratic families during the Napoleonic Wars. This deluxe hardbound edition features a beautifully design
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1232
- Publish Date: January 10 2021
- ISBN10: 9354402577
- 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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Thérèse Raquin
$11.95 Add to cartTh?r?se Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola’s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters,… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536856
- Language: English
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Down with the Poor!
$16.95 Read more‘Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.’ —Le Monde
Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led he
- Author: Sinha, Shumona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052137
- Language: English
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Against Nature
$21.99 Add to cartJoris-Karl Huysmans’s cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe
A celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abando- Author: Huysmans, Joris Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787661
- 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
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Chéri and the End of Chéri
$16.95 Add to cartColette’s celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.
Colette’s Ch?ri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Ch?ri (1926), are wide- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376709
- Language: English
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Civilizations
$19.00 Read moreAn ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet’s Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counte
- Author: Binet, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858879
- Language: English
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Adolphe
$5.99 Add to cartAdolphe is just past the his coming-of-age, but has a much more room to grow. As the son of a government official, Adolphe has a privilege of comfortable wealth and access to a good education, however
- Series: Mint Editions (Literary Fiction)
- Author: Constant, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1513269437
- Language: English
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The Song at the Scaffold
$12.95 Add to cart“The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compi?ne but the figure of the young Blanche. . . . Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by
- Author: Von Le Fort, Gertrud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1586175254
- Language: English
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HHhH
$19.00 Add to cart“Captivating . . . [HHhH] has a vitality very different from that of most historical fiction.” –James Wood, The New Yorker
The basis for the major motion picture, “The Man with the Iron Heart ” availa- Author: Binet, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 327
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250033349
- Language: English
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Class Trip & the Mustache
$23.99 Add to cartLa Moustache–now a film directed by Emmanuel Carr?e
“What would you say if I shaved off my mustache?” asks The Mustache‘s hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recogni- Author: Carrhre, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422334
- 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
