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A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
RRP: $33.13$23.95Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed her first novels, the Claudines, as his own. They... -
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment by Judith P. Zinsser
RRP: $36.76$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112686Author Judith P. ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $19.48$13.86Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
RRP: $17.53$12.58Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and... -
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
RRP: $23.40$15.50'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: $87.75$69.56An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through... -
Poetry and Photography by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $25.33$22.35The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a... -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
RRP: $21.43$15.15With an introduction by comedian and novelist David BaddielA novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now... -
Georges Perecs Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces by Charles Forsdick 9781787354425
RRP: $48.75$42.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354425Author Charles ForsdickFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 530g -
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance by Bruce Fink 9780691015897
RRP: $68.25$53.06This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject... -
We Have Only This Life To Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $44.85$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works by Marie de Gournay 9780226305561
RRP: $54.60$53.41During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his... -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: $25.33$17.73Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making... -
Night in French libertine fiction: 2018 by Marine Ganofsky 9780729412155
$167.68In the age of Enlightenment the concept of night evolved from being a time of dread to a time for pleasure. Between the start of the Regence (1715-1723) and the French Revolution the nocturnal and the erotic became intrinsically connected: shadows and... -
A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: $60.45$54.89A collaborative close reading of 'A Thousand Plateaus' by some of the world's leading Deleuze and Guattari scholarsThis volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each... -
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times by Collectif
RRP: $23.40$16.46From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today's... -
Paris: A Literary Anthology by Zachary Seager 9781035023615
RRP: $19.48$12.71Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists.Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology,... -
Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author by William C. Carter
RRP: $97.50$95.26The extraordinary life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century, by "Proust's definitive biographer" (Harold Bloom) Based on a wealth of letters, memoirs, workbooks, and manuscripts unavailable before, the... -
The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabes
RRP: $54.60$53.41The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes's importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot be overestimated, and his enigmatic style-combining... -
The French New Wave - A New Look by Naomi Greene 9781905674121
RRP: $35.08$28.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674121Author Naomi GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Selected Poems by Du Bellay 9780192847997
RRP: $17.53$12.58'Live now and listen, do not wait in vain Until tomorrow; pluck life's rose today.' Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard are two of the major sixteenth-century French poets and leaders of the extraordinary group known as 'La Pleiade'. Determined... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780393928839
$26.77An extensively revised "Backgrounds and Contexts" section provides geographical and political insights into mid-nineteenth century France and places the novel in the context of contemporary authors and works. A map of 1830s France, political and literary... -
Anathemas and Admirations by E M Cioran
$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456882Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: With parallel French Text by Collectif
RRP: $23.38$16.44'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $17.53$12.58This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the... -
Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature by Viv Groskop
RRP: $35.08$22.41A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop... -
How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom 9780062048318
RRP: $31.18$23.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062048318Author Marilyn YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $29.23$22.37A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the... -
I Remember by Georges Perec
RRP: $19.48$13.16'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available for the first time in English, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780393979176
$26.77Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including... -
Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $29.23$25.17Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural... -
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 9780330371452
RRP: $39.00$28.39Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement, Revolutionary playwright, poet, epic novelist, author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes
RRP: $25.33$17.73In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness... -
The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction by John Phillips
RRP: $17.53$12.58Were it not for the Marquis de Sade's explicit use of language and complete disregard for the artificially constructed taboos of a religious morality he despised, the novelty and profundity of his thought, and above all, its fundamental modernity, would... -
Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 by Albert Camus
RRP: $58.50$53.41Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood... -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody
RRP: $15.58$6.67INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of... -
Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley
RRP: $42.88$36.64In this critical biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Katharine Conley reevaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: $21.43$15.15The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton 9780674536579
RRP: $56.45$43.76Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment.Here are the ambitious writers who crowded... -
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201620
RRP: $27.28$22.52First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. This accurate and graceful...