A Tale of Two Cities |
 Charles Dickens
ISBN: 0192833901
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to that great upheaval. Set between 1757 and 1793, A Tale of Two Cities views the causes and effects of...(read more) |
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A Town Like Paris: Living and Loving in the City of Light |
 Bryce Corbett
ISBN: 0733623484
Fleeing London, in search of adventure and determined to sample some of the famed delights of the City of Light, our hero arrives in Paris with only a suitcase and a determination to have the time of his life. He launches himself into la vie parisienne,...(read more) |
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Capturing Paris |
 Katharine Davis
ISBN: 0312340982
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Cousin Bette |
 Honore de Balzac
ISBN: 0192836684
This new translation has an Introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. |
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Down and Out in Paris and London |
 George Orwell
ISBN: 0140282564
Meet Bozo, a star-gazing pavement artist, and Boris the starving Russian, and enter the vile Hotel X, with its mean patron. Discover this and more in the young Orwell's memoir of his time among the desperately poor of Paris and London. |
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Giovanni's Room |
 James Baldwin
ISBN: 0141186356
First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, as he awaits his...(read more) |
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Horace |
 George Sand
ISBN: 156279082X
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Hunting and Gathering |
Anna Gavalda
ISBN: 0099494078
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Ladies' Delight |
Emile Zola (Author), April Fitzlyon (Translator)
ISBN: 1847490484
(Oneworld Classics) Encapsulating, with atypically, luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification, "The Ladies Delight" depicts the beginnings of capitalist economy through the...(read more) |
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Les Miserables |
 Victor Hugo
ISBN: 0140622918
Out of extreme poverty Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to...(read more) |
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Letters from Leonardo: A Novel |
Iain Wodehouse-Easton
ISBN: 0955184711
This literary novel is a reflective and imaginative exploration of the inner man that Leonardo da Vinci cleverly hid from the public gaze. It reveals his relationships with his pupils and secret loves throughout his life, and challenges stereotypical...(read more) |
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Life, a User's Manual |
 Georges Perec
ISBN: 0099449250
One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentiethcentury fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene, one of the inhabitants of the apartment block, has conceived the idea of a painting...(read more) |
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MURDER IN THE RUE DE PARADIS (Aimee Leduc Investigation) |
Cara Black
ISBN: 1569474745
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Murder on the Ile Saint Louis (Aimee Leduc Investigation) |
 Cara Black
ISBN: 1569474443
(Hardcover) Parisian computer expert Aimee Leduc finds herself in the midst of murder and corruption after an anonymous telephone call leads her to an abandoned baby girl. |
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On Paris |
Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 1843916045
'The scum of Greenwich Village, New York, has been skimmed off and deposited in large ladled on that section of Paris adjacent to the Cafe Rotonde. New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum and...(read more) |
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On Paris (On) |
Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 1843916045
'The scum of Greenwich Village, New York, has been skimmed off and deposited in large ladled on that section of Paris adjacent to the Cafe Rotonde. New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum and...(read more) |
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Paris Tales: A Literary Tour of the City |
 Helen Constantine (Translator)
ISBN: 0192805746
Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by specific locations in this most visited of capital cities. The twenty-two stories - by well-known writers including Nerval, Maupassant,...(read more) |
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Paris Trance |
 Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 0349110204
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Sentimental Education - Penguin Classics |
 Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 0140447970
This novel begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. |
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Short French Fiction |
 J. E. Flower (Editor)
ISBN: 085989570X
Short fiction in France has made a major contribution to French culture and literature. This volume provides insights into some examples of this sort of writing in the 20th century and also includes a chapter which explores the ways in which the genre...(read more) |
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The Ambassadors |
 Henry James
ISBN: 0140432337
Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs Newsome sends her "ambassador" Strether to Paris to extricate him. Strether, however, finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by the...(read more) |
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The Ambassadors |
Henry James (Author), Adrian Poole (Editor)
ISBN: 0141441321
(Penguin Classics) When Chadwick Newsome, a young American favoured with fortune and independence, becomes entangled in a liaison dangereux with a Parisian temptress, his overbearing mother deploys her future husband, the elderly, amiable Strether, as...(read more) |
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The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas |
 Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 0141185368
"The Autogiography of Alice B. Toklas" is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography, seen through the eyes of her friend, Alice B Toklas. With occasional glimpses into her early life, it describes her years in Paris until 1932. At 27 Rue de...(read more) |
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The Belly of Paris |
Emile Zola
ISBN: 0192806335
(Oxford World's Classics; Paperback) 'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond...(read more) |
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The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School/Claudine in Paris/Claudine Married/Claudine and Annie |
 Colette
ISBN: 0374528039
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The Da Vinci Code |
 Dan Brown
ISBN: 0552149519
Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu,...(read more) |
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The Drinking Den |
Emile Zola (Author), Robin Buss (Editor, Translator)
ISBN: 014044954X
(Penguin Classics; Paperback) Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class people living in the slums of a city. "The Drinking Den" (1877) is part of the "Rougon-Macquart" series, a...(read more) |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
 Victor Hugo
ISBN: 0140622225
The story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame cathedral and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. When the demented archdeacon Frollo sets out to abduct Esmeralda, he uses Quasimodo to do the evil deed on his behalf....(read more) |
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The Kill |
Emile Zola
ISBN: 0192804642
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The Kill (Oxford World's Classics) |
 Emile Zola (Author), Brian Nelson (Translator)
ISBN: 0192804642
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
 Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 0752847708
In just five stories, Edgar Allan Poe laid down most of the ground rules of detective fiction. In the three tales featuring Auguste Dupin ('The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The Purloined Letter') he created the...(read more) |
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The Paris Review Interviews: v. 1 |
 Philip Gourevitch
ISBN: 1841959251
How do great writers do it? From James M Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book -...(read more) |
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The Penguin Book of French Poetry |
 William Rees (Editor)
ISBN: 0140423850
This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the...(read more) |
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The Phantom of the Opera |
 Gaston Leroux
ISBN: 0140621741
Filled with the colour and theatrical spectacle of the Paris Opera House at the turn of the century, and the ageless fascination of love transformed into murderous obsession, this is a classic work of mystery and suspense. |
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier |
T.E. Carhart
ISBN: 0099288230
Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. Pianos were everywhere: they swelled and shrank in the heat of the colonies, they were...(read more) |
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Voice Over |
Celine Curiol
ISBN: 0571229964
A young woman works in Paris, at the Gare du Nord. She spends every day talking into a microphone, announcing platforms and timetables, invisible to the world. And then she falls in love with a man who, in turn, loves another. To our heroine, her rival...(read more) |
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Writers in Paris |
 David Burke
ISBN: 1593761570
No other city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the middle ages through the 20th century, wave after wave of poets, novelists and playwrights,...(read more) |
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