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“mireille harmelin”

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  • Letters From My Windmill

    by Alphonse Daudet ...
    Translated by Mireille Harmelin, Keith Adams ...
    Have you ever fantasized about leaving big-city life behind and making a beeline for a bucolic village? That's exactly what Alphonse Daudet did, and he documents the results of his decision in the series of fictionalized sketches collected in Letters From My Windmill, in which he recounts his move from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the rustic life in a small village in Provence. The book is ... Read more

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  • The Passion

    by Jeanette Winterson ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author interweaves the destinies of Napoleon's cook and an enigmatic Venetian woman in this "arresting, elegant novel" ( Publishers Weekly).A faithful soldier of the Grande Armée, Henri is given the honor of serving meals to Napoleon himself. After all, Henri is short—and no one over five-foot-two ever serves the emperor. But when following his revered leader brings ... Read more

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  • War and Turpentine

    A novel

    by Stefan Hertmans ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearThe life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Belly of Paris

    by Emile Zola ...
    Translated by Mark Kurlansky ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother’s family in the newly rebuilt Les ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Death on the Installment Plan

    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night.Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s earlier novel, Journey to the End of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • The Strangers in the House (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    “A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal.” —P. D. JamesCaught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, Hector Loursat, once a respected lawyer, now holes up, unwashed and drunk on Burgundy, in his once grand but increasingly decrepit mansion. He barely ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Black Spring

    by Henry Miller ...
    Series series Miller, Henry
    Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Peel Me a Lotus

    by Charmian Clift ...
    'Clift's immersive 1950's memoirs capture the magic, and the menace of Greek island life' Daily Telegraph. In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing The result is Charmian Clift's best known and most loved books, Mermaid ... Read more

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  • The Mahé Circle (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    A shattering study of restlessness and midlife crisis on the ocean, from an icon of bleak fiction.François Mahé took his family on vacation to Porquerolles, a sun-drenched Côte d’Azur island, only because a friend suggested it. His everyday life as a small-town doctor was sedate and predictable, but contented—until he experienced the strange, hostile energy of Porquerolles, with its intense heat ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Notre-Dame de Paris

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Alban Krailsheimer ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Very French Christmas

    The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine Gustave Droz, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword ReviewsThis collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner ... Read more

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  • A Case of Curiosities

    A Novel

    by Allen Kurzweil ...
    This tale of an ambitious inventor in France as the Revolution looms is "brilliantly playful . . . full of lore and lewdness" ( Chicago Tribune)."A portrait of a young mechanical genius in 18th-century France, delivered along with a gallimaufry of odd and intriguing facts and a rich, lusty picture of society in that time and place." — Publishers WeeklyIn France, on the eve of the Revolution, a ... Read more

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