With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live.Business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family, the s
Understanding Marcel Proust includes an overview of Marcel Proust's development as a writer, addressing both works published and unpublished in his lifetime, and then offers an in-depth interpretation
This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells
A tale inspired by the life of writer Raymond Carver traces a passionate writer's intense first marriage, supportive second marriage, escalating conflict with his editor and sober final decade during
A new translation by Adam ThorpeGustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, “Emma Bovary, c’est moi.” In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert’s
Les articles dans ce volume sont écrits par des chercheurs en littérature québécoise contemporaine et en littérature scandinave et finlandaise d’aujourd’hui. Il y a trois points de départs thématiques
Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lim
A dilapidated seasidevilla whose interior opens upon a landscape of memory and madness is thesetting for this story about the ways our homes come to define ourpersonalities.
A word-crazedmonologue in the mind of a man flying to his war-torn native country for thefirst time in years, Without Origin exploresthe ways a family, homeland, friendship, or even a favorite author,
A memoir and meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix’s first book to appear in fourteen years, and deals with the reasons for her withdrawal fr
A # 1 French and Italian bestseller from the three-time winner of the CWA’s International Dagger Award More than ten million copies of Fred Vargas’s Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries have been sold
A thrillingly comic Mafia farce?soon to be a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones, and produced by Martin Scorsese The Blakes are newcomers to a sma
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation published to coincide with a major new biography of the real-life “Lady of the Camellias” One of the greatest
To escape from a disastrous affair, a journalist, writer and translator moves to Lisbon where he is teamed up with photographer Antonio and as they work closely together, they discover that the more t
Best-selling author Alexandre Dumas--who also wrote The Three Musketeers--tells this heartbreaking yet heroic tale of Edmond Dantes who takes revenge on the men responsible for his unjust fourteen-yea
Fiction. Translated from the French by Leon Stephen. THE OBSTINATE SNAIL is the first translation into English of Boudjedra's diabolical satire of the bureaucratic mind, L'escargot entete. Here are th
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the ori
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the ori
