Cultural Region/French
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World War I Battlefields: A Travel Guide to the Western Front: Sites, Museums, Memorials
$12.99 Read moreThoroughly updated for this new third edition, Bradt’s World War I Battlefields remains the only compact practical travel guide to cover both French and Belgian battlefield sites involved in one of th… [more below]
- Author: Thomson, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1804691364
- Language: English
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Nothing Is Lost
$17.00 Read moreFrom one of France’s most talented young authors, an urban thriller full of rage and raw emotion
In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Sa?, was fifteen y
- Author: Medhi, Cloé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458222
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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French in 10 Minutes a Day: Language Course for Beginning and Advanced Study. Includes Workbook, Flash Cards, Sticky Labels, Menu Guide, Software,
$44.95 Add to cartDreaming of Paris? Or Tahiti? Or perhaps it’s Morocco that beckons you. Wherever your travels take you in the Francophone world, “FRENCH in 10 minutes a day” will cover all your language needs. Fun co… [more below]
- Series: 10 Minutes a Day
- Author: Kershul, Kristine K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1931873291
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Shadow Raiders: The Race to Develop Radar, World War II’s Invisible Secret Weapon
$15.95 Read moreFrom award-winning war reporter and internationally bestselling author Damien Lewis, a blistering account of one of the most daring raids of WWII–and the top-secret weapon that changed the course of … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0806540648
- Language: English
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Trekking Chamonix to Zermatt: The Classic Walker’s Haute Route
$27.95 Add to cartGuidebook to the Walker’s Haute Route, a classic 140-mile (225km) trek from Chamonix to Zermatt, linking Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn – the most spectacular peaks in France and Switzerland. This dem
- Author: Reynolds, Kev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1786311380
- Language: English
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Paris to the Moon
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The finest book on France in recent years.”–Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comfort- Author: Gopnik, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758232
- Language: English
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Francis Ponge: Selected Poems
$16.95 Read moreThrough translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry –Le parti pris des choses, Pi ces, Pro mes, an… [more below]
- Author: Ponge, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0916390586
- Language: English
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Un B?rbaro En Par?s: Textos Sobre La Cultura Francesa / A Barbarian in Paris. Wr Itings about French Culture
$19.95 Read moreEL LIBRO QUE CELEBRA LA ENTRADA DEL PREMIO NOBEL MARIO VARGAS LLOSA EN LA ACADEMIA FRANCESA
«La literatura francesa fue la mejor y sigue siéndolo. La más osada, la más libre, […] la que se … [more below]- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826214
- Language: Spanish
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After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
$19.00 Read moreOn the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. They were held for five days at the V駘odrome d’Hiver stadium, before b
- Author: Weismann, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066484
- Language: English
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Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars
$49.95 Read more2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal fr- Author: Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1438455011
- Language: English
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French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d’Azur
$19.95 Read moreGet swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the C te d’Azur that’s su… [more below]
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1940842050
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95 Read moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows
$18.95 Read more“How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?” –Charlotte Brontë, “The Death of Napoleon”
The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-18
- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092025
- Language: English
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La Intemporalidad Perdida Y Otros Relatos / Waste of Timelessness, and Other Early Stories
$17.95 Read moreNIN IN?DITA
«Antes de Lena Dunham, estuvo Ana?s Nin.
La mejor introducci?n a la obra de una autora admirada por lectores y escritores de ayer y de hoy: diecis?is relatos apasionantes
Sady Doyle,- Author: Nin, Ana?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 8426411169
- Language: Spanish
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The Necklace and Other Short Stories
$6.00 Read moreThe French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of the short story, creating detailed character studies and brief but moving dramas well suited to the genre.
The nine stories in this colle… [more below]- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0486270645
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of René Char
$16.95 Read moreThe Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet’s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, th… [more below]
- Author: Char, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: April 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0811211924
- Language: English
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Half an Hour from Paris: 12 Secret Daytrips by Train
$22.99 Read more– Unmissable guide to secret destinations just moments from Paris
Fully revised and updated edition, now in full colour and with two new chapters: Brunoy and Parc Saint Cloud.
The spectacular medieval
- Author: Simms, Annabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1843682273
- Language: English
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Great Liberty
$14.95 Read moreA previously untranslated gem of Surrealist prose poetry from the acclaimed French novelist
In 1941, Julien Gracq, newly released from a German prisoner-of-war camp, wrote a series of prose poems that
- Author: Gracq, Julien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 193966389X
- Language: English
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Fear: A Novel of World War I
$19.95 Read moreA NYRB Classics Original
A young soldier learns the true meaning of fear amidst the carnage of World War I in this literary masterpiece and “one of
Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Chevallier, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177169
- Language: English
