France
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A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
- £13.00
- The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted…
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A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
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Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
- Add to basket
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French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
- £110.00
- This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues…
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French Masters of the Organ: Saint-Sans, Franck, Widor, Vierne, Dupr, Langlais, Messiaen
- £45.00
- This engaging book discusses the colorful personalities and beloved music of the French romantic organist-composers. Michael Murray draws vivid portraits of Aristide Cavaill-Coll (1811-1899), the greatest and most influential organ builder of his time, and of seven other musicians with connections to Cavaill-Coll and to one another: Camille Saint-Sans (1835-1921),…
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Histoire contemporaine I. L’orme du mail
- £35.00
- Vol. I in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histoire contemporaine IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
- £35.00
- Vol. IV in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Jericho
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 4th novel. With his divorce proceedings looming, writer William Caldicott is in desperate need of some respite. As fate would have it, he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James, along with the keys to James' house France. Sensing the potentially reformative aspect of…
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Lascaux and Carnac
- £25.00
- A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
- £15.00
- In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking…
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More Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
- Add to basket
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Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
- Add to basket
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Paolo Paoli, The Years of the Butterfly
- £25.00
- Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) provoked great hostility after the opening night of this 1957 play, and even demonstrations. It was a savage satire on middle class society in the French Edwardian era. Translated by Geoffrey Brereton.
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
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The 7th Function of Language
- £10.00
- One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels youÕll read this year' - Observer ÔThe most outrageously entertaining novel of the yearÉ A joyÕ - Philip Hensher Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. ItÕs February 1980 and he has just come…
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The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
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The Clue to Pascal
- £10.00
- Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today. The author of this study of his personality and work claims that Pascal was 'one of the profoundest thinkers of all time.'
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The Man in the Red Coat
- £30.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
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The River of Fire (Le Fleuve de Feu)
- £15.00
- ÒWe do not know what we desire: we do not love those whom we think we love.Ó This musing from the lips of MauriacÕs protagonist in VipersÕ Tangle might well sum up the entirety of his fictional works, but particularly his 1922 novel The River of Fire. Daniel Trasis finds…
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The Scapegoat
- £25.00
- A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking…
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The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
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The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A CRIME STORY. A LOVE STORY. A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON. MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD. August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug…
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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
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Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
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A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
- £13.00
- The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Ree, told in his own words A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted…
- Add to basket
-
A Sense of Place
- £25.00
- A collection of three essays about France by the renowned Oxford professor of history: 1. Becoming a historian; 2. 'L'Affaire Perken'; 3. Seduction and Pregnancy in Revolutionary Lyon.
- Add to basket
-
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
- £30.00
- An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764,…
- Add to basket
-
Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
- Add to basket
-
Balzac
- £30.00
- Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with…
- Add to basket
-
Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
- Add to basket
-
Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
- Add to basket
-
French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
- £110.00
- This book draws upon both musicology and cultural history to argue that French musical meanings and values from 1898 to 1914 are best explained not in terms of contemporary artistic movements but of the political culture. During these years, France was undergoing many subtle yet profound political changes. Nationalist leagues…
- Add to basket
-
French Masters of the Organ: Saint-Sans, Franck, Widor, Vierne, Dupr, Langlais, Messiaen
- £45.00
- This engaging book discusses the colorful personalities and beloved music of the French romantic organist-composers. Michael Murray draws vivid portraits of Aristide Cavaill-Coll (1811-1899), the greatest and most influential organ builder of his time, and of seven other musicians with connections to Cavaill-Coll and to one another: Camille Saint-Sans (1835-1921),…
- Add to basket
-
Histoire contemporaine I. L’orme du mail
- £35.00
- Vol. I in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
- Add to basket
-
Histoire contemporaine IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
- £35.00
- Vol. IV in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
- Add to basket
-
Jericho
- £20.00
- Dirk Bogarde's 4th novel. With his divorce proceedings looming, writer William Caldicott is in desperate need of some respite. As fate would have it, he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James, along with the keys to James' house France. Sensing the potentially reformative aspect of…
- Add to basket
-
Lascaux and Carnac
- £25.00
- A well-known British Archaeologist on the painted caves in various places in France as well as the magalithic monuments near Carnac in Brittany. Described by the author as 'a light gossipy guide to some aspects of the gastro-archaeology of France.'
- Add to basket
-
Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
- Add to basket
-
Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
- £15.00
- In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking…
- Add to basket
-
More Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
- Add to basket
-
Old Touraine: The Life And History Of The Chateaux Of The Loire (2 vols)
- £45.00
- Theodore Cook's legacy from his artist mother was an early introduction to the world of paintings, sculpture and architecture. This inspired him to travel particularly in Europe and to publish authoritarian works on Old Provence, Twenty-five Great Houses of France, Leonardo da Vinci and sculpture among many others, some of…
- Add to basket
-
Paolo Paoli, The Years of the Butterfly
- £25.00
- Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) provoked great hostility after the opening night of this 1957 play, and even demonstrations. It was a savage satire on middle class society in the French Edwardian era. Translated by Geoffrey Brereton.
- Add to basket
-
Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
- Add to basket
-
Promenades: a historian’s appreciation of modern French literature
- £12.00
- As Edward Lucie-Smith said on BBC Radio 3 critics forum 'the discourses of a wonderful eccentric.'
- Add to basket
-
The 7th Function of Language
- £10.00
- One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels youÕll read this year' - Observer ÔThe most outrageously entertaining novel of the yearÉ A joyÕ - Philip Hensher Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. ItÕs February 1980 and he has just come…
- Add to basket
-
The Cat & The King, a novel
- £15.00
- Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. This novel is dedicated to "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who persuaded me that Versailles was still a valid source for fiction." An elegant, fictive portrait of the glittering court at Versailles under the powerful monarchy of Louis XIV evokes the…
- Add to basket
-
The Clue to Pascal
- £10.00
- Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today. The author of this study of his personality and work claims that Pascal was 'one of the profoundest thinkers of all time.'
- Add to basket
-
The Man in the Red Coat
- £30.00
- *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885,…
- Add to basket
-
The River of Fire (Le Fleuve de Feu)
- £15.00
- ÒWe do not know what we desire: we do not love those whom we think we love.Ó This musing from the lips of MauriacÕs protagonist in VipersÕ Tangle might well sum up the entirety of his fictional works, but particularly his 1922 novel The River of Fire. Daniel Trasis finds…
- Add to basket
-
The Scapegoat
- £25.00
- A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking…
- Add to basket
-
The students’ quarter; or, Paris five-and thirty years since
- £30.00
- Thackeray's memoir of his time in Paris as a student in 1839-40. Title page states Camden Hotten as publisher but Chatto and Windus publisher in gilt at bottom of spine. With 5 handcoloured plates presumed to be by the author.
- Add to basket
-
The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- A CRIME STORY. A LOVE STORY. A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON. MORE THAN 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD. August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug…
- Add to basket
-
They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
- £15.00
- From the bestselling author of Americans in Paris and The Deserters, the astounding story of Britain's Special Operations Executive, one of World War II's most important secret fighting forces. As far as the public knew, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) did not exist. After the defeat of the French Army…
- Add to basket
-
Tour de France
- £15.00
- An anthology of essays by the renowned Oxford professor of history, about the France that was his lifelong passion.
- Add to basket