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  • Les Liaisons dangereuses

    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

  • Les Liaisons dangereuses

    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

  • Irretrievable

    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their two children. Helmut is lighthearted and pleasure-loving and largely content to defer to his ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Bel-ami

    Translated by Douglas Parmee ...
    Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Red Notebook

    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating Constant’s eccentric and peripatetic education, his introduction to European high society and the kindling of his literary ambitions as well as his often comic and calamitous early experiences with the opposite sex and the development of his ruinous gambling habit.Part ... Read more

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  • A Slight Misunderstanding

    Translated by Douglas Parmee ...
    Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive, and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant Major de Chateaufort. However, the sudden reappearance of an old admirer who has returned from Turkey--along with a tale of breathtaking derring-do and chivalry to add to his charms--reawakens in Julie a forgotten passion. She pursues a rash ... Read more

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  • Dead Men Tell No Tales

    by Emile Zola ...
    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of `Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of `Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display the broad range of Zola's imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the ... Read more

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  • The Gods Want Blood

    Translated by Douglas Parmee ...
    Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, The Gods Want Blood centres on the rise to power of the Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a young painter who becomes a juror on a local Revolutionary tribunal. Caught up in the bloodthirsty madness surrounding him, he helps to dispense cruel justice in the name of his ideals, while at the same time succumbing to his own petty instincts of ... Read more

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  • Micromegas

    by Voltaire ...
    Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand languages and has been expelled from his homeland for writing a heretical tract. On Saturn he befriends the local secretary of the Academy of Sciences - a comparative dwarf, being only two kilometres high - and the two decide to travel to earth together, where they will ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    A Sentimental Education

    Narrated by Jonathan Fried ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 54 min

    Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will ... Read more

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  • The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

    by Emile Zola ...
    Translated by Douglas Parmée ...
    Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings - from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, from the hustle and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Le père Goriot

    Narrated by Eric Herson-Macarel ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    Si l'on doit choisir une livre pour débuter l'oeuvre de Balzac, il faut commencer par Le père Goriot. On y rencontre les principaux personnages que l'auteur fera évoluer tout au long des ouvrages composants "La comédie humaine", à savoir Nucingen, Rastignac, Bienchon, Marsay ... Le père Goriot est le centre, la pierre angulaire, le carrefour de cette oeuvre gigantesque.Voici donc l'histoire de ce ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD