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A Passenger from the West
UNO Press 2010; US$ 9.99In 1970, Nabile Fares interviewed African-American author James Baldwin for Jeune Afrique magazine. What begins in this book as an interview with Baldwin confronting the history of Black America leads Fares into a journey through his own past. Vivid encounters in France and Spain connect with Fares' remembrances of his native Algeria, its war for independence,... more...
Sans masque
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2011; US$ 11.99L?histoire de la lutte d?une jeune femme pour retrouver son identité. more...
Novels in Three Lines
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 14.00A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s... more...
Poems Under Saturn: Poemes saturniens
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 15.95Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, faithfully renders the collection's... more...
Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 104.95At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context of Enlightenment concerns... more...
Honore de Balzac
Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 54.00-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers. La Comedie Humaine, Balzac's extraordinary 20-volume fictionalized history of France, has... more...
Marcel Proust
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 54.00An avid critic an translator, Marcel Proust is best remembered as author of the novel "The Remembrance of Things Past. more...
Collected Poems
Oxford University Press, UK 2001; US$ 8.99This bilingual editions provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns. - ;'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert CamusRimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature,... more...
Principes de politique applicables à tous les gouvernements représentatifs
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 293.00This volume makes accessible Benjamin Constant?s major political treatise, which was the basis for his political actions and the development of his political writings. His Principes de politique became one of the decisive starting points of European liberalism. The book contains 1906 tenets of Constant?s political philosophy, which evolved over a lengthy... more...
Where would I be without you?
Gallic Books 2011; US$ 8.74'Where would I be without you?'is the story of three people: Martin Beaumont -- a Paris policeman who feels he's failing at life. Emotionally, he's never recovered from the rejection by his first love, and now his brilliant police career is crumbling too. But tonight is his chance to make good. He's lying in wait outside the Musee d'Orsay where he... more...









