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Critical Essays: Volume 2: 1949–1951 Georges Bataille 9781803094342
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $44.69An introduction for English-language readers to Georges Bataille's postwar philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a... -
Ida Rubinstein: Revolutionary Dancer, Actress, and Impresario by Judith Chazin-Bennahum 9781438487984
Booksplease Price: $54.75The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.Ida Rubinstein (1883-1960) captivated Paris's dancers,... -
![Radical French Thought and the Return of the "Jewish Question" by Eric Marty](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/286385/286103/9780253016782__61573.1686942721.jpg?c=1 "Radical French Thought and the Return of the "Jewish Question" by Eric Marty")
Radical French Thought and the Return of the "Jewish Question" by Eric Marty
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the... -
Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature by Mat Fournier 9780231209533
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the... -
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 9781860461170
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96'A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man's efforts can change the future for so many. It's a real message of hope.' Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved... -
A Poet’s Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan by Louise Bogan 9780804010719
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39Although best known as a master of the formal lyric poem, Louise Bogan (1897-1970) also published fiction and what would now be called lyrical essays. A Poet's Prose: Selected Writings of Louise... -
T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition by Benjamin G. Lockerd 9781611477139
Booksplease Price: $118.99T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris... -
The Grand Banks Cafe: Inspector Maigret #8 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone... -
Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation by Benjamin Franklin Martin
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $37.82In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault,... -
Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence (1919-1940) by Chinmoy Guha 9780199489046
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.23The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the East and the West: the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes 9780231136167
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $164.87In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to... -
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 by Michael David-Fox 9780199376421
RRP: $91.33Booksplease Price: $74.57During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves... -
Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort: The Nobel Laureate and His Unfinished Creation by Benjamin Franklin Martin 9780875807492
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $56.91In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Roger Martin du Gard was one of the most famous writers in the Western world. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1937, and his works, especially Les Thibault,... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $47.57In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to... -
Into the Sun by C F Ramuz 9780811238663
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.40It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "accident in... -
A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia by John Andrew Frey 9780313298967
Booksplease Price: $140.47Though he wrote more than a century ago, French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) continues to capture the imagination of contemporary readers both in France and around the world. In the United States,... -
Trenton Makes Tadzio Koelb 9781786494078
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.29SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, 2018__________________________________________"A novel of bewitching ingenuity" New York Times"Electrifying" Lit... -
Trenton Makes Tadzio Koelb 9781786494061
Booksplease Price: $33.26"A novel of bewitching ingenuity" New York Times"Electrifying" Lit HubAbe Kunstler wants his share of the American Dream, which for him is a factory job, a wife and a family. Getting these things... -
Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska 9780241679630
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.77**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION**A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR FEBRUARY | A 2026 HIGHLIGHT IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND THE BOOKSELLER A meeting place for Europe's... -
Indrek: Volume II of the TRUTH AND JUSTICE pentalogy by Anton Hansen Tammsaare 9781913212339
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $28.18This second volume of A.H. Tammsaare's monumental pentalogy portrays the education of Indrek who emerges here as the protagonist and will remain so throughout the next three volumes. This is a story... -
In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete by Nicoletta Momigliano
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.84Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologies 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan... -
Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters: Inspector Maigret #39 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack policeman. But this business isn't... -
Mallarme: The Poet and His Circle by Rosemary Lloyd
Booksplease Price: $60.17Upon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry... -
Cecile is Dead: Inspector Maigret #20 by Georges Simenon 9780141397054
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult... -
Maigret's Memoirs: Inspector Maigret #35 by Georges Simenon 9780241240175
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but... -
Maigret and the Old Lady: Inspector Maigret #33 Georges Simenon 9780241206829
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler than the September sky... -
The Skin-Ego: A New Translation by Naomi Segal Didier Anzieu 9781782201007
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents and develops his theory of the importance of 'the Skin-ego'. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so Anzieu sees the 'Skin-ego' as a psychical... -
Maigret and the Saturday Caller: Inspector Maigret #59 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the... -
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the bourgeois, almost edifying,... -
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Inspector Maigret #57 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The smell of the apartment was... -
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses: Inspector Maigret #53 Georges Simenon 9780241303856
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'His artistry is supreme' John Banville It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the life of its world, and even the... -
Maigret and the Man on the Bench: Inspector Maigret #41 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with... -
Maigret and the Tramp: Inspector Maigret #60 Georges Simenon 9780241303993
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to figure out just who... -
Maigret's First Case: Inspector Maigret #30 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding... -
Cold Spring in Winter by Valerie Rouzeau
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.98When Valerie Rouzeau's first poem sequence was published in France a decade ago under the title "Pas Revoir", it met with immediate critical acclaim. These poems are an urgent, stammered lament for... -
My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31 Georges Simenon 9780241206393
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.49'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping into another world,... -
Maigret is Afraid: Inspector Maigret #42 by Georges Simenon 9780241277485
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town like this, of course there are... -
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde 9780674248670
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $44.00An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era."I cannot think other than in stories," Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend Andre... -
At Home with AndrA (c) and Simone Weil by Sylvie Weil 9780810142626
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Translated from the French by Benjamin Ivry, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century's most original philosopher-critics, and as a result her legacy has been claimed by many. This memoir by... -
When the Storm Fell Silent A.H. Tammsaare 9781913212360
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $28.18When the Storm Fell Silent is an ironic, tragic and contradictory work which reflects the author's ambivalent attitude to the 1905 Revolution in Tsarist Russia, which Estonia was then a part of. He...