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  • John Calvin and The Reformation of the Refugees

    by Heiko Oberman ...
    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Heiko A. Oberman dedicated the last fifteen years of his scholarly career to the study of John Calvin and the pan-European movement he launched, described by Oberman as the "Reformation of the Refugees". In the eight essays collected here, Oberman assesses a half-century of research on Calvinism, probes the matrix of Calvin's early thought, addresses Calvin's message and its appeal to persecuted ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • 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

  • Candide: The Original Unabridged And Complete Edition (Voltaire Classics)

    by Voltaire ...
    Candide is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated ... Read more

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  • The Limit of the Useful

    The 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’expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • How to Live

    Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • The Trouble with Being Born

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • A Short History of Decay

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Montaigne

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Will Stone ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th centuryWritten during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1846. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Curious Invitation

    The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction

    by Suzette Field ...
    Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered.A Curious Invitation is a humorous and ... Read more

    $6.99 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

  • Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time

    A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past

    An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Temptation to Exist

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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