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  • Honoré de Balzac

    par Peter Brooks ...
    Collections series My Reading
    A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Queen of Fashion

    What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

    par Caroline Weber ...
    "A thrilling frock-by-frock account . . . energetic and alive with [Weber's] own feminine pleasure at a beautiful dress or an outrageous pouf." — Entertainment Weekly (grade: A)Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    par Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man (Mobi Classics)

    par Marquis de Sade ...
    Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated in 1782, expressing his atheism by having the dying libertine convince the priest of the mistakes of a pious life. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • How the French Invented Love

    Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

    par Marilyn Yalom ...
    "Absolutely marvelous…lively and learned….Marilyn Yalom's book is a distinguished contribution to our experience of a great literature, as well as an endearing memoir." —Diane Johnson, author of Lulu in Marrakech and Le Divorce"[An] enchanting tour of French literature—from Abelard and Heloise in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st." — Publishers ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Divine Marquis

    A Study of De Sade

    Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), a rebel poet and general catalyst for the Paris avant-garde of his time, is often regarded as the spiritual forefather of Surrealism (it was he who, in fact, coined the term "surrealist†in 1917). In the early 1900s he began work at the Enfer section of the French national library, a forbidden section reserved for "banned†books, usually of a pornographic ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Lemoine Affair

    par Marcel Proust ...
    Traduit par Charlotte Mandell ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $10.39 CAD

  • Ourika

    An English Translation

    par Claire de Duras ...
    Traduit par John Fowles ...
    Collections series MLA Texts and Translations
    John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers.Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French ... En savoir plus

    $22.56 CAD

  • The Queen's Necklace

    par Antal Szerb ...
    Traduit par Len Rix ...
    Collections series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation the affair brought on the royal family contributed to their appalling deaths in ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Life of Monsieur de Molière

    A Portrait by Mikhail Bulgakov

    This portrait of Molière, by Mikhail Bulgakov, goes far beyond mere biography. The Russian master brings a kindred spirit vividly to life in this novelistic story of art and the struggle it demands.Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Life of Monsieur de Moliere is a fascinating portrait of the great French seventeenth-century satirist by one of the great Russian satirists of our own century. For Bulgakov, ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    par Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Marcel Proust

    A Life, with a New Preface by the Author

    Collections series Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity
    Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of À la recherche du temps perdu one hundred years ago, Marcel Proust portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. “An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD