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Lamiel
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute
France 1848 – 1945
Intellect and Pride
Theodore Zeldin
Analyzes the Frenchmans unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and
Discourse on Method and The Meditations
Rene Descartes
René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse
Troubled Sleep
Jean-Paul Sartre
Powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished response of the French people to the German oc
Derrida
On Deconstrunction
Barry Stoker
Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his
The Historian’s Craft
Marc Bloch
In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques of historic
Zadig / L’ingenu
Voltaire
One of Voltaire’s earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L
Feudal Society
Marc Bloch
Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist woul
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debords The Society of th
The History of Sexuality
Volume 3: The Care of the Self
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressioni
Language and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu
This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieus highly original writings on language and on the relations among la
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the
Micromégas And Other Short Fictions
Voltaire
Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and
collection, enlightenment, fantasy, french, philosophy, scifi
Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire
Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary is a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an enormously
Maupassant
Michael G Lerner
Despite the popularity of his novels and short stories it is some years since a major study of Maupassant has a
The Complete Works of Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagr
Penguin Island
Anatole France
Penguin Island is a satirical novel by Anatole France first published in 1908. The book details the history of
The Reprieve
Jean-Paul Sartre
An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Mun
History of the Thirteen
Honoré De Balzac
This trilogy of storie’s Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty, The Duchesse De Langeais, and The Girl with
Iron in the Soul
Jean-Paul Sartre
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, aw
The Debacle
Émile Zola
The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events
A Harlot High and Low
Honoré de Balzac
Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this
Cousin Bette
Poor Relations Part 1
Honoré de Balzac
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior rela
The Order of Things
An archaeology of the human sciences
Michel Foucault
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how cla
Madness and Civilization
A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle
Chronicles of the Crusades
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and re
The Wild Ass’s Skin
Honoré de Balzac
The Wild Ass’s Skin is Honoré de Balzacs 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaél de Valentin,
Droll Stories
Honoré de Balzac
Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, The Hundred Facetious Tales) — known as Droll Stories — is a collectio
The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Modern Library volume 98 edited by Saxe Commins.
The Civilisation of Charlemagne
Jacques Boussard
Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He was born before their canonical marr
Dry Guillotine
Fifteen Years Among the Living Dead
René Belbenoit
Dry Guillotine chronicles Belbenoit’s childhood, the commission of two non-violent and relatively minor thefts
Short Stories of De Maupassant
Guy De Maupassant
Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and effici
Pierre and Jean
Guy de Maupassant
The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy.
Chicot The Jester
The Last Valois #2
Alexandre Dumas
Intrigue and adventure in the dangerous days of the sixteenth century.
Candide
Voltaire
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desper
Droll Stories Volume 1
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac’s Droll Stories are one of the greatest achievements of the genius of comedy. For more than a century th
A Womans Life
Guy de Maupassant
The most popular and perhaps the greatest of Maupassants full-length novels, A Womans Life is the story of the
Masculine Domination
Domination
Pierre Bourdieu
Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it
The Bankrupt
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac lived most of his life one step from his creditors; his house in Paris even had a special exit
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of
Nana
Émile Zola
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect t