Cultural Region/French
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René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
$29.95 Add to cartA systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist Ren Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic de… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
- Author: Palaver, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1611860776
- Language: English
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
$42.00 Add to cartIn fin-de-si cle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a strikin… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Hustvedt, Asti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1096
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1890951072
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$30.00 Read more“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestsel
- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1635574919
- Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities
$12.99 Read moreExplore Dickens’ classic tale of order and disorder, death and resurrection with A Tale of Two Cities.
Taking place in London and Paris in the eighteenth century, in the years leading up to and durin- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0785839836
- Language: English
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The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
$19.99 Add to cart“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA).
The twen… [more below]
- Author: Bell, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0618919813
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Astragal
$16.95 Read moreAs if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps f
- Author: Sarrazin, Albertine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220737
- Language: English
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Literary Landscapes: Paris
$28.99 Read moreFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.
The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous liter
- Series: Literary Landscapes
- Author: Bliss, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0008588996
- Language: English
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The Two Spoons Cookbook: More Than 100 French-Inspired Vegan Recipes
$26.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
French-inspired vegan recipes worth sharing–and best served with two spoons! While living in France, Hannah pursued her passion for vegan co
*2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD SILVER WINNER*- Author: Sunderani, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0735241287
- Language: English
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L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
$19.00 Add to cartBestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launchi… [more below]
- Author: Lebovitz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0804188408
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
$16.95 Read moreIntimate insights from the saint to whom Our Lord gave the Sacred Heart revelations. Includes Our Lord’s own words to her and tells how she sought out suffering for the love for God. A very famous bo… [more below]
- Author: Alacoque, Margaret Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0895552957
- Language: English
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The Frenchman
$27.99 Read moreBased on the experiences of a real French spy, Jack Beaumont’s first-hand knowledge and experiences make this thriller plausible and frightening as you’re plunged into the very real world of terror, e
- Series: Frenchman #1
- Author: Beaumont, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9.7982E+12
- Language: English
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Time Castaways: The Mona Lisa Key
$9.99 Add to cartFrom Liesl Shurtliff, the New York Times bestselling author of Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin, comes a thrilling new middle grade trilogy about three city kids who get on the wrong subway tr
- Series: Time Castaways #1
- Author: Shurtliff, Liesl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0062568167
- Language: English
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The Eight
$8.99 Read moreWhen two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scat… [more below]
- Author: Neville, Katherine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0345366239
- Language: English
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The Seine: The River That Made Paris
$17.95 Add to cartBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sci
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358593
- Language: English
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Hudson and the Puppy: Lost in Paris
$12.95 Add to cartWhen Hudson encounters a lost puppy, our hero takes him on a whirlwind tour of Paris–on foot, Vespa, and bateau mouche–to find his home. What will Hudson do when he realizes the puppy is homeless? T… [more below]
- Series: Paris-Chien Adventure
- Author: Mancuso, Jackie Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0578322080
- Language: English
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A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948
$15.00 Read moreA Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud’s last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.
A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Ar- Author: Artaud, Antonin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3035803560
- Language: English
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Brittany: A Cultural History
$15.00 Read moreA cultural guide to a region on the edge of europe that has been visited by the Romans, Franks, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Germans. Brittany’s richly layered landscape has contributed depth and charact… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Cultural Histories
- Author: Mewes, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1566560888
- Language: English
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Under a War-Torn Sky
$12.99 Read moreWounded and alone behind enemy lines, a young pilot must find his way to freedom in this gripping, beloved novel
When Henry Forester is shot down during a bombing run over France, the World War II pil… [more below]- Author: Elliott, L. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0786817534
- Language: English
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My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribut… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Mayle, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1101974281
- Language: English
