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Pushkin Collection eBook Series

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  • The Man in a Hurry

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Pierre ruins everything-friendships, love, fatherhood-in his headlong race against time. As he rushes through life, he fails to appreciate those things that are of true value-the tendernesses shown to him by his wife, Hedwige, the poetry of the world. He burns himself up, and burns up those around him, in a constant striving for goals that change as soon as he reaches them. Too late, he will ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Venices

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "It is after experiencing life that I have returned here to think about myself."Paul Morand was a diplomat, traveller, socialite and one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century. Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable. Its poised, impressionistic, poetically vivid scenes add up ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tender Shoots

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron, Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Composed before and during the first months of the First World War, Paul Morand did not publish these stories until 1921. Clarissa, Delphine and Aurora - three alluring and independent young women - are stories set largely in London, a city he loved and which continued to fascinate him long after he worked there as an attaché at the French embassy.Stylish, poetic and highly original, Morand's ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Nausea

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • Life: A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    by Christian Dior ...
    Translated by Antonia Fraser ...
    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the 'New Look' took the world by storm. Originally published in 1957, this charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment. This book is part of the V&A Fashion Perspectives ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Notes from the Cévennes

    Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

    by Adam Thorpe ...
    Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cévennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • Paris Noir

    The Secret History of A City

    by Jacques Yonnet ...
    Translated by Christine Donougher ...
    In Paris Noir Yonnet tells is about some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Paris Metro Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be ... Read more

    $8.79 CAD

  • The Plague

    by Albert Camus ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A story for our, and all, times' GuardianSet in a town consumed by a deadly virus, The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Flaubert's Parrot

    by Julian Barnes ...
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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