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  • Cruel Destiny and The White Negress

    Two Novels by Cléante Desgraves Valcin

    Translated by Jeanne Jégousso ...
    by Cléante D. Valcin ...
    Cléante Desgraves Valcin (1891-1956) was a poet, writer, and feminist—most prominently Haiti’s first published female novelist, who employed her sentimental fiction to explore matters of race, gender, nationalism, and sovereignty. A contemporary of Harlem Renaissance writers such as Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston, Valcin emerged as an influential writer and political figure among the Black ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Representing Rural Women

    by Whitney Womack Smith, Margaret Thomas-Evans, Agatha Beins, Jim Coby, Nancy Cook, H. Louise Davis, Amy Easton-Flake, Julie R. Enszer, Eli Erlick0, Wendy Keys1, Adam Nemmers2, Jimmy Dean Smith3, Jericho Williams4, Amanda Zastrow5, Laurie J. C. Cella6, Elizabeth F. Thompson7, Holly M. Kent8, Barbara Pini9 ...
    Representing Rural Women highlights the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in this collection offer fresh perspectives on representations of rural women in literature, popular culture, and print, digital, and social media. They explore a wide range of time periods, geographic spaces, and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • In Search of Lost Time: Volume 4

    Sodom and Gomorrah

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by John Sturrock ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3

    The Guermantes Way

    by Marcel Proust, Mark Treharne ...
    Translated by Mark Treharne ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest,most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the ... Read more

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  • The Captive

    by Marcel Proust ...
    In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. ... Read more

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  • One Who Saw

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by A.M. Burrage ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    A sensitive writer flees the clatter of London for a sleepy French city. After settling in at quiet hotel, he spies a ghostly, solitary young woman weeping in a walled garden, her features hidden from view. Compelled to see the woman's face, he ventures forward.... Originally published on Christmas in 1931, "One Who Saw" is regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece. ... Read more

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  • The Lemoine Affair

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune.This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

  • A Very French Christmas

    The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine Gustave Droz, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword ReviewsThis collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant

    Enriched edition. Exploring 19th Century Parisian Society Through Realistic Character Studies

    by Honoré de Balzac, Livia Norcrest ...
    Translated by Henri Pène du Bois ...
    In "A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant," Honoré de Balzac immerses readers in the intricate tapestry of 19th-century Parisian life, weaving a vivid portrayal of a single street and its eclectic inhabitants. This work, rich in detail and character, exemplifies Balzac's realist style, characterized by meticulous observations and psychological insight. Through a series of interlinked vignettes, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Read more

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  • The Counterfeiters

    by André Gide, Mint Editions ...
    Series series Mint Editions (Reading With Pride)
    “My novel hasn’t got a subject. Yes, I know it sounds stupid…let’s say, if you prefer it, it hasn’t got one subject…and the subject of the book, if you must have one, is just that the very struggle between what reality offers him and what he himself desires to make of it.”In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in, what is the reality of the story? The ... Read more

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  • Swann in Love, Deluxe Edition

    The witty novella that's the perfect introduction to Proust

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Lucy Raitz ...
    A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust’s masterpiece—an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy—delivers the most memorable reading experienceA new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English—and since Proust died—Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD