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Genet, Jean eBook Series

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  • Querelle

    by Jean Genet ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    Querelle is regarded by many critics as Jean Genet’s highest achievement in the novel-certainly one of the landmarks of postwar French literature. The story of a dangerous man seduced by danger, it deals in a startling way with the Dostoevskian theme of murder as an act of total liberation, and as a pact demanding an answering sacrifice.It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Miracle of the Rose

    by Jean Genet ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    One of the greatest achievements of modern literature.”-Richard HowardA major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiritual exercises and hoodlums into bearers of the majesty of love.”-Saturday ReviewGenet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Thief's Journal

    by Jean Genet ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    “The most beautiful book that Genet has written.” —Jean-Paul SartreFirst published in France in 1949, The Thief’s Journal is Jean Genet’s iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legendary genius to future generations of readers, with an introduction by Genet’s great admirer, Patti Smith.From a prison cell, the journal’s narrator recounts his travels across Europe in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Maids and Deathwatch

    Two Plays

    by Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Series series Genet, Jean
    The two plays collected in this volume represent Genet’s first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In The Maids, two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to revenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress’s lover to the police fails and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Our Lady of the Flowers

    by Jean Genet ...
    Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Thief's Journal

    by Jean Genet ...
    Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Shipping News

    A Novel

    by Annie Proulx ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune).At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Just Kids

    An Autobiography

    by Patti Smith ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair

    Book 1, A magical adventure from Enid Blyton, author of The Magic Faraway Tree

    by Enid Blyton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Wishing-Chair
    Set off a magical adventure with the first book in Enid Blyton's classic fantasy series about a chair that can fly and grant wishes!When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a magical wishing-chair! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some wonderful adventures - to a giant's castle to rescue a new pixie friend, to the Land of Dreams, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Goldfinch

    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    by Donna Tartt ...
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Paris Spleen

    Little Poems in Prose

    by Charles Baudelaire ...
    Translated by Keith Waldrop ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words "dangerous"—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merging of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Molloy

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Series series Beckett, Samuel
    Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later by The Unnamable (L’Innommable). Few works of contemporary literature have been so universally acclaimed as central to their time and to our understanding of the human experience. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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