France
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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…
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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…
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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)
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- 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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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
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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.'
- 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
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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.
- Add to basket