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  • Swann's Way - In Search of Lost Time Volume #1

    In Search of Lost Time (Sunday Classic)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    Swann's Way is the first volume.In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Preface to Sartre

    Perhaps the leading Western intellectual of his time, Jean-Paul Sartre has written highly influential works in an awesomely diverse number of subject areas: philosophy, literature, biography, autobiography, and the theory of history. This concise and lucidly written book discusses Sartre's contributions in all of these fields.Making imaginative use of the insights of some of the most important ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Life on a Mediaeval Barony

    A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century

    Example in this ebook   Chapter I: The Fief of St. Aliquis: Its History and Denizens. In the duchy of Quelqueparte there lay, in the later days of the great King Philip Augustus, the barony of St. Aliquis. Perhaps you may have trouble in finding any such places upon the maps of Mediæval France. In that case, I must tell you that they did not lie so far from Burgundy, Champagne, and Blois that the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • In Search of Lost Time [Vol. 1 - 7]

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    In Search of Lost Time ,or Remembrance of Things PastVol.1 - Swann's WayVol.2 - Within a Budding GroveVol.3 - The Guermantes WayVol.4 - Cities on the PlainVol.5 - The CaptiveVol.6 - The Sweet Cheat GoneVol.7 - Time RegainedIn Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) - or Remembrance of Things Past - is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871 -1922). His most prominent ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is “surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus’s most enduring novel” (PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus’s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It’s the rare novel that’s as likely ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris Spleen

    little poems in prose

    Translated by Keith Waldrop ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new?and in his own words "dangerous"?hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Feminizing the Fetish

    Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France

    by Emily Apter ...
    Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of ... Read more

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  • The Count Of Monte Cristo (Complete & Illustrated)(Free Audio Book Link)

    With Nearly Five Hundred Illustrations

    Series series Greenhouse Classics
    The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. He completed the work in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.The story takes place in France, Italy, islands ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Madame Bovary

    [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audio Links ]

    Series series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
    Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who hasadulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated + FREE audiobook link + Active TOC)

    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of History

    The great Enlightenment thinker shares his views on the nature and practice of history in this fascinating critique of historical narratives.In The Philosophy of History, Voltaire present a radical reinterpretation of the moral, aesthetic, and religious views and the customs and practices that prevailed in ancient civilizations. His critique touches on a range of topics, from cultures across the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Started in French for Kids | A Children's Learn French Books

    When you allow your young child to learn a foreign language, there’s better chances of fluency than if he/she learns later in life. You see, a child’s brain is like a sponge and it’s ready to accept a foreign language. As a result, fluency is easy and rapid. Speech is without accent too. Start your child’s French training today. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil

    Essays on Marseilles, Mediterranean Cuisine, and Noir Fiction

    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    “Evocative . . . A paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean . . . His essays . . . reveal a man of deep feeling and humanity” (The Guardian).A short sublime book on the three things dearest to Jean-Claude Izzo’s heart: his native Marseilles, the sea in all its splendor, and Mediterranean noir—the literary genre his books helped to found. This collection of writings shows Izzo, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Les Misérables

    [Special Illustrated Edition] [Annotated with Criticisms and Interpretations] [Free Audio Links]

    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, which can be translated from the French as The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Stranger Magic

    Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

    by Marina Warner ...
    Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Critical Terrains

    French and British Orientalisms

    by Lisa Lowe ...
    Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes and discusses ... Read more

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  • The New Gods

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Dubbed “Nietzsche without his hammer” by literary critic James Wood, the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran is known as much for his profound pessimism and fatalistic approach as for the lyrical, raging prose with which he communicates them. Unlike many of his other works, such as On the Heights of Despair and Tears and Saints, The New Gods eschews his usual aphoristic approach in favor of more ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cities of the Plain Sodom and Gomorrah - In Search of Lost Time : Volume #4

    In Search of Lost Time (Sunday Classic)

    Series Book 4 - In Search of Lost Time
    This book is the fourth of seven volumes of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's popular translation of Proust's massive semi-autobiographical novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Library in the 1930s). Its title was once translated as Cities of the Plain, perhaps because the mention of Sodom was once too suggestive to earlier readers. This book entails the last few pages of The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ourika

    An English Translation

    Translated by John Fowles ...
    Series Book 3 - Texts and Translations
    John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers.Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Monsieur Vénus

    A Materialist Novel

    by Rachilde ...
    Translated by Melanie Hawthorne ...
    Series Book 15 - Texts and Translations
    When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue. ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Edited and annotated by leading Proust scholar William Carter, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second volume of one of the twentieth century’s great literary triumphs.   It was this volume that won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, affirming Proust as a major literary figure and dramatically increasing his fame. Here the narrator whose childhood was reflected in Swann’s Way moves further ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Around the World in Eighty Days (Illustrated + FREE audiobook link + Active TOC)

    by Jules Verne ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • La Bête humaine

    by Émile Zola ...
    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD