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  • The Grand Banks Café (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series Book 8 - Inspector Maigret
    A crew’s captain turns up dead, but it’s the evil eye that haunts them—Inspector Maigret must navigate stone-faced sailors to solve the fishy sequence of events.A fishing boat docks at a port in Normandy—and hours later its captain is floating in the harbor, strangled to death. When Inspector Maigret arrives, at the behest of his old school friend, he finds the Océan’s crew will say nary a word ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Les Liaisons dangereuses

    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ...
    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Signed, Picpus (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series Book 23 - Inspector Maigret
    “I want to know what goes on in people’s minds. I suppose that’s why I love Georges Simenon so much. He was such a master of the small domestic situation.” —Ruth RendellTomorrow, at five in the afternoon, I will kill the clairvoyant. Signed,Picpus.This chilling message is seen scratched into a café blotting pad, prompting Maigret to place eighty fortune tellers under police watch. If it’s a hoax, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Félicie (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by David Coward ...
    by Georges Simenon ...
    Series Book 25 - Inspector Maigret
    “Simenon was fascinated by peculiarities of human personality, which he described in elegant, simple prose . . . as pure as running water.” —Roger EbertIt’s the height of spring, and Maigret is grappling with doubly unfamiliar circumstances. He’s in the surreal new village of Jeanneville, outside Paris, where an elderly bachelor has been shot dead in his home. Тhe prime witness, his twenty-four ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Twenty Years After

    by Alexandre Dumas, (père) ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Lock No. 1 (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series Book 18 - Inspector Maigret
    When a drowned man comes back to life, Georges Simenon’s detective must figure out who might have wanted him dead—before they try again.Emile Ducrau, the kingpin of a small town on the outskirts of Paris, is stabbed and left for dead in the harbor one night. When he’s pulled from the water and miraculously revived, he enlists the help of Maigret to figure out who was behind the attempted murder. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother

    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother

    by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother were the first plays to use a set of recurring characters who develop over time. They chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution and Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment. The impertinent, bustling servant was appropriated by Mozart and Rossini for their own purposes, and Beaumarchais became eighteenth ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

    by Marquis de Sade, David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong are murderers, torturers, and tyrants. No quarter is given; compassion is the virtue of the weak. Yet Sade was ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Les Liaisons dangereuses

    by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ...
    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant, Prof David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.' Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures capable of idealistic beliefs and actions and survive only on the drug of self-deception. Maupassant's disgust with creation was only equalled by ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Phantom of the Opera

    by Gaston Leroux ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!' A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daaé. Under his guidance her singing rises to new heights and she is triumphantly acclaimed. But Christine is also loved by Raoul de Chagny, and by returning his love she makes the fiend she knows as ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Journey to the Moon

    by Jules Verne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?' Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon tell the daring story of the Journey to the Moon aboard an American projectile blown into the skies by gunpowder. A powerfully innovative tale, it introduces such paradigm revolutions as escape ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook