French Fiction Today, Paperback

Reducere. Comtesse de S gur is best known today for her novel Sophie's Misfortunes, but from the same author came the wonderfull book "Old French Fairy Tales...

Reducere. This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion agai...

Robespierre's justification of the Terror in the French RevolutionRobespierre's defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful a...

Reducere. It's a nightmare trying to find French immersion material.We know how you feel, and we have a solution Most French students have to go through the ...

Reducere. Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1907 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. For print te...

Reducere. Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile) of the original edition of 1907 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. For print te...

Reducere. The Color of Joy is USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean's eighth instalment in her popular Color of Heaven series, which has delivered ma...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Boys King Arthur (1880) by the American poet Sidney Lanier is a re-working of the original Sir Thomas Malory's "History of King Arth...

DescriptionFans of the style of William Faulkner will want to read Henri Bosco, four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Available in E...

Reducere. School Days (Chemin-d'Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau's childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory a...

Reducere. An English lady. A French privateer. And a chance encounter that was destined to be.Long ago, ALEXANDRA WINTERS, LADY SILCOX, dreamed of love and t...

Reducere. A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world s great...

Reducere. The adventures that flowed from the pen of Alexandre Dumas are well loved. Less known today are his tales of Robin Hood. It is our pleasure to prov...

Reducere. A widow in a mansion. Dark secrets. And poison, deadly poison.After amateur detective Molly Sutton stumbles on a dead body, she wastes no time befo...

The story explores the lives of a French 'Yeoman' farming family and their village, from the beginning of the period of unprecedented prosperity, a...

A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with p...

DescriptionNearly a century before NASA, a visionary novelist wrote this adventure classic about an international space race. Jules Verne's eerily ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Robert L. MackThe stories contained in this "store house of ingenious fiction" initiate a pattern of literary reference and...

Reducere. Already praised as "a writing powerhouse" (USA Today) and "among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with sm...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a ...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a ...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a ...

Reducere. Introduction by Colm ToibinIn fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and ...

Reducere. Writen for both the general public and the specialist, Tainos and Caribs, Antillean aboriginal cultures summarize the Spanish and French historians...

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassio...

Reducere. A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history o...

Reducere. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny...

Reducere. A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorp...

Reducere. Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a gripping disa...

Reducere. Description'Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the ...

Reducere. In the title novella of this collection, Mistress Nora's vacation request leads to a sexy covert operation. She might be the one flogging the clien...

Reducere. Return to USA Today bestseller Tiffany Reisz's Original Sinners series with Winter Tales, a collection of three fan-favorite Christmas novellas plu...

To all appearances, North Bank is a charming retirement town and tourist attraction - until a murder reveals a darker side of crime and corruption....

Reducere. She thought the nightmare was over....Twenty-three years ago, Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, t...

Reducere. The gritty business of politics is not something we usually associate with the occult. But esoteric beliefs have influenced the destiny of nations ...

A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century.Long ago, in childhood, when Summer reverbe...

Reducere. The classic novel by William GoldingWith a new Introduction by Stephen King"To me Lord of the Flies has always represented what novels are for, wha...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Edward Rutherfurd, the grand master of the historical novel, comes a dazzling epic about the magnificent city of Par...

Reducere. DescriptionUSA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with this heartwarming novel about the power of friendship, love and what happens when...

Reducere. N.O. Lit: 200 Years of New Orleans Literature is, quite simply, the most comprehensive collection of the literature of New Orleans ever. Designed a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first three mysteries in the USA Today bestselling Franki Amato series: Limoncello Yellow, Prosecco Pink, and Amaretto AmberWhen Fra...

Reducere. Ciji Ware - NY Times & USA Today bestselling author presents A NOVEL INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES OF EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN & MEN WHO VOLUNTEERED A...

Reducere. The world of today continues to be shaped by the past Without understanding the pivotal events, political movements and social revolutions that hap...

Reducere. Read the USA Today bestseller from the author of Roses, a "sumptuous, full-bodied, and emotional" novel about five young spies embedded among the h...

Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for ...

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the...

Reducere. Here today. Dead tomorrow? My best friend, Emily, is dead - killed last night in a hotel fire. But it was meant to be me. Now I have 24 hours to fi...

Reducere. Jean Ray brilliantly upends the haunted-house tradition in this widely acclaimed puzzlebox of a novelA reinvention of the Gothic novel and an estab...

From USA TODAY bestselling author Candice Proctor (aka C. S. Harris) comes an unforgettable tale of lust and murder set against the steamy, decaden...

Reducere. In The Art of Kissing, William Cane reveals that there is more to kissing than simply locking lips. Through a hundred thousand interviews he has di...

Reducere. DescriptionNow a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-c...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece. --Maur...

Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the ...

Reducere. Don't miss the first book in the Anthony Award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author Gigi Pandian. A chance f...

Reducere. "Fran Lewis's newest offering is a polished, razor-sharp double-edged sword. On one hand, it is reminiscent of the old Twilight Zone series and jus...