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1	How Proust Can Change Your Life more books like this by Alain de Botton add to wishlist Alain de Botton's first work of nonfiction is a tribute to Marcel Proust, in the guise of a somewhat unusual self-help book. Consisting of Proust's opinions on subjects ranging from vacations to sex, it is, in the end, an illuminating portrait of Proust by de Botton. Listed by Salon as one of the Ten Best Books of 1997. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Journey to the end of the night more books like this by Louis-Ferdinand Céline add to wishlist The dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	La Symphonie Pastorale more books like this by Andre Gide add to wishlist In beautiful, evocative prose, Gide's short novel explores such themes as love, blindness, honor, and mortality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.38! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The 120 days of Sodom : and other writings more books like this by D. A. F. marquis de Sade, Austryn Wainhouse, Richard Seaver add to wishlist The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud ... see all copies from $7.09! new only from $7.10! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The fall more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist An expatriate Frenchman on the skids in Amsterdam spills his life story in a sleazy bar, revealing that he used to be a successful Paris lawyer. His downfall parallels the plight of all humanity in Camus's allegorical novel, which is a classic of existential literature. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $7.28! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Le Comte de Monte-Cristo more books like this by Alexandre Dumas add to wishlist This is a French reader for intermediate through advanced students. "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo" (Dumas) is a thrilling story of Edmond Dantes that remains as fascinating to today's students as it was to 19th-century French readers. This reader is softcover, 6" A - 9", and 144 pages in length. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present more books like this by Michael Sheringham add to wishlist In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien, or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first comprehensive analytical survey of the whole field of approaches to the everyday. It offers, firstly, a historical perspective, demonstrating the ... see all copies from $12.98! new only from $45.69! \| SVS
8	A Barthes Reader more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades. see all copies from $8.79! new only from $14.51! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Anthologie de La Litterature Francaise: Tome I: Des Origines a la Fin Du Dix-Huitieme Siecle more books like this by Robert Leggewie (Editor) add to wishlist The main change from the previous edition is the substitution of Moliere's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" for "Le Misanthrope". see all copies from $30.58! new only from $63.65! \| SVS
10	Tresors Litteraires: Initiation a la Litterature Francaise Et Francophone (Student Edition) more books like this by Anne-Marie Bourbon, Debra Popkin, Gloria Sawicki add to wishlist This new reader for French is the perfect supplement for any Beginning or Intermediate French grammar text. At 160 pages in length, it will have an immediate impact in this market because of its size and affordable price. The authors compiled and wrote this text thanks to an NEH research grant. As a result, the book has been extensively class ... see all copies from $12.51! new only from $40.24!
11	The Impersonal Sublime: Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautreamont more books like this by Suzanne Guerlac add to wishlist The question of the sublime, which links the idea of aesthetic force with rhetorical impact and moral law, has been an important topic in discussion of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and the shift between them. This book argues that the sublime is equally important in understanding the shift from romanticism to modernism later in the ... see all copies from $7.25! new only from $31.52! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Oulipo Compendium more books like this by Harry Mathews (Editor), Alastair Brotchie (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of the works by members of the movement known as OuLiPo who find their inspiration in experimental with literary form, including mathematical rhyme schemes, lipograms, and palindromes. see all copies from $31.17! new only from $31.17! \| first editions
13 view cover	Anthologie de La Litterature Francaise: Tome II: Dix-Neuvieme Et Vingtieme Siecles more books like this by Robert Leggewie (Editor) add to wishlist Most of the revisions in this volume consist of the addition of women writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute and Colette. see all copies from $26.00! new only from $33.33! \| SVS
14 view cover	The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France more books like this by Robert Darnton add to wishlist The best-selling books in France during the waning decades of the ancien regime were not the outlawed works of great philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, but other books, also banned by the government, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was a crucial part of the culture of dissent in the ancien ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	On Life and Letters (Third Series) more books like this by Anatole France add to wishlist CONTENTS Preface - Hamlet at the Comdie-Franaise - Serenus - The Reception of M. Lon Say at the French Academy - M. Alexandre Dumas, Moralist - The Young Girl of the Past and the Young Girl of the Present - M. Guy de Maupassant and the French Story-Tellers - Benjamin Constant's Journal - A Novel and a General Order: "Le Cavalier Miserey" - The ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $19.92! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	La Peste more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist Camus uses the plague-stricken city of Oran as a metaphor for Occupied France. This novel illustrates the paradox that from evil may come happiness, as well as the idea that only when faced with dire circumstances is humanity capable of finding existential purpose, fraternal affection, and the capacity for courage. see all copies from $2.36! new only from $23.15! \| first editions
17 view cover	Paris France more books like this by Gertrude Stein add to wishlist "America is my country and Paris is my home town." -Gertrude Stein see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.53! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde more books like this by Susan Rubin Suleiman add to wishlist In this book Suleiman shows how the figure of Woman, as fantasy, myth, or metaphor has functioned in the work of male avant-garde writers and artists in the 20th century and in the process offers interpretations of major French avant-garde writers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Le Cid more books like this by Pierre Corneille add to wishlist Edited and Translated by John C Lapp, this edition of Le Cid for performance and study includes an introduction, which interprets the contemporary political, social, and romantic themes that give this tragedy its complex, interwoven structure. Also included are a selected bibliography and a list of the principal dates in the life of Corneille. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Les Femmes Et La Tradition Litteraire: Anthologie Du Moyen Age a Nos Jours Premiere Partie: Xiie-Xviiie Siecles more books like this by Professor Vicki Mistacco add to wishlist "Les femmes et la tradition litteraire," a two-part anthology, offers a sweeping historical overview of women's literature in France from the twelfth century to the present. Generously illustrated and richly annotated, it presents writers such as Helisenne de Crenne, Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Louise Ackermann and Renee Vivien along with more ... see all copies from $19.79! new only from $38.50! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Helene Cixous Reader more books like this by Susan Sellers (Editor), Jacques Derrida (Foreword by), Helene Cixous add to wishlist The pieces in this volume range broadly across Helen Cixous's entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures and drama. Arranged in chronological order, the extracts span 20 years of intellectual thought and demonstrate clearly the development of her creativity. With a foreword by Jacques Derrida, a preface by Cixous herself, and ... see all copies from $13.90! new only from $37.42! \| SVS
22	Survey of French Literature more books like this by Morris Bishop add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Studies in human time more books like this by Georges Poulet add to wishlist see all copies from $6.40! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830 more books like this by Paul Benichou, Mark Jensen (Translator) add to wishlist "The Consecration of the Writer" is the definitive study of the first stages of a phenomenon that has profoundly affected world literature: the process by which modern writers ceased to speak as representatives of some religious or political power and instead seized the mantle of spiritual authority in their own right, speaking directly to and in ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
25 view cover	Writing degree zero more books like this by Roland Barthes add to wishlist Barthes's first book and one of his most famous, WRITING DEGREE ZERO addresses the French avant-garde with a critique of modernist French literature and its use of language. see all copies from $5.08! new only from $7.33! \| first editions \| SVS

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