France
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Radiant, Vol. 5
$9.99 Read moreThe world is overrun with monsters called Nemeses–and a young boy infected by one will stop at nothing to defeat them all!
Evil creatures called Nemeses fall from the skies and the only ones who can- Series: Radiant #5
- Author: Valente, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 197470386X
- Language: English
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The Complete Fairy Tales
$13.95 Add to cart“Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!”
Charles Perrault’s versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping B- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Perrault, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0199585806
- Language: English
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Madame Bovary
$9.00 Read moreAt convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that “This life of hers was as cold as an attic tha… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Flaubert, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0486292576
- Language: English
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Debt to Pleasure
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food.
Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420366
- Language: English
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Daughters Beyond Command
$18.00 Read moreAn absorbing bildungsroman that tells the story of three sisters during a decade of radical societal transformation
Three sisters were born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the
- Author: Olmi, Véronique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1609457900
- Language: English
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The Impersonal Adventure
$14.95 Read moreA disorienting, de Chirico-esque detective tale of curio shops and eerie antiquities, penned in France’s postwar trauma
A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and
- Author: Bealu, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1939663725
- Language: English
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
$10.95 Add to cartThe complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. Its prime movers, the Vicomte de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Laclos, Pierre Choderlos De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536481
- Language: English
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Playboy
$17.95 Add to cartThe prequel to Love Me Tender, narrating Debré’s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.
I see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new.- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Debre, Constance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 163590210X
- Language: English
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What You Need from the Night
$15.99 Read moreA CrimeReads Best International Fiction Book of Fall 2023
A powerful, intimate portrait of grief and radicalization that grapples with the conundrum of having loved ones we no longer recognize. After- Author: Petitmangin, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635423503
- Language: English
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A Month in Provence
$18.99 Add to cartA totally gorgeous escapist new story from the author of the international bestseller, A Year at the French Farmhouse.
Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever s
- Author: Harvey, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1804269832
- Language: English
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Overseas
$22.00 Add to cartExperience a love that transcends time in this sensation debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and Husbands & Lovers.
Amiens, France, 1916 Captain Julian Ashford, a… [more below]- Author: Williams, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0425261263
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg Tree
$23.33 Add to cartIn 1930s France, a free-spirited mother undertakes to derail her very proper daughter’s engagement
Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her well-heeled in- Author: Sharp, Margery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 150405086X
- Language: English
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Break of Day
$17.00 Add to cartColette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the C te d’Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel’s theme–the renunci… [more below]
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0374528322
- Language: English
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The Easy Life
$18.00 Add to cartFor the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras’s foundational masterpiece about a young woman’s existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.
The Easy Life is th- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635578515
- 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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Germinal
$8.94 Add to cartZola’s masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola’s death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom fro… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, Émile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536899
- 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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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
$28.00 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
