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  • A Love Story

    Traducido por Helen Constantine ...
    de Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.' Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who jealously guards her mother's affections. When Jeanne falls ill, she is ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Sentimental Education

    de Gustave Flaubert ...
    Traducido por Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also finds himself distracted by the equally romantic appeal of political action in the turbulent years ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Copenhagen Tales

    Edición de Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Exploring the many moods of the Danish capital. From the narrow twisting streets of the old town centre to the shady docklands, this rich anthology captures the essence of Copenhagen and its many faces. Through seventeen tales by some of the very best of Denmark's writers past and present, we travel the length and breadth of the Danish capital examining famous sights from unique perspectives. A ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Nana

    Traducido por Helen Constantine ...
    de Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Warsaw Tales

    Edición de Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw's past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city's Nazi occupation, the post ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wild Ass's Skin

    Traducido por Helen Constantine ...
    de Patrick Coleman, Honoré de Balzac ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris, and contemplates ending his life by throwing himself into the Seine. He is distracted by the bizarre array of objects in a chaotic antique shop, among them a strange animal skin, a piece of shagreen with ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Paris Metro Tales

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    de Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...
    Traducido por Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Venice Tales

    de Helen Constantine, Katia Pizzi ...
    Traducido por Katherine Gregor, Howard Curtis ...
    Series series City Tales
    Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream-like city uniquely built on ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Athens Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Athens Tales is a portrait of Greece's capital through the city's own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a roughly chronological course from the 1890s to the present day, through these stories, the reader follows the history of Athens through its multiple ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cat and The Masked Woman

    de Diana Holmes, Colette, Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?' Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume form in 1933) is one of her short novels. This story of a middle-class couple in 1920s Paris follows the familiar romantic ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Saving the Children of the Holocaust

    True Stories of Remarkable Women who Risked their Lives to Save Thousands of Children during World War II

    de Helen Constantine ...
    Saving the Children of the Holocaust tells the astonishing, little-known stories of eight ordinary women who risked everything to save children during one of history's darkest periods.While much has been written about the horrors of the Holocaust, the courage of many who resisted and rescued remains largely unknown. Through extensive research, Helen Constantine shines a light on remarkable women ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD