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1	Confessions more books like this by Jean Jacques Rousseau add to wishlist 'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the ... see all copies from £1.49! new only from £3.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette more books like this by Judith Thurman add to wishlist This biography of Colette puts her into the context of the changing world in which she lived and wrote, and explores her effect on it. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Explorations: La Litterature Du Monde Francais more books like this by Susan Schunk add to wishlist Combining literary readings at the intermediate level with a step-by-step approach to reading development, this text provides a progressive and systematic application of reading strategies which should allow students to become more sophisticated readers. see all copies from £5.69! new only from £54.05!
4	Very Easy Death more books like this by Beauvoir add to wishlist In this work Simone De Beauvoir records her mother's death from cancer. It shows the agonies of "a very easy death", the clinical humiliations of a proud woman, and the unforeseen flashes of love and hostility at the bedside. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.43! \| first editions
5	History of my life more books like this by Giacomo Casanova add to wishlist "Now at last we can enjoy the wonderful 'History of My Life'...as if we were reading an entirely new book...Few more extraordinary men have ever lived; an no memoirist gives us a more vivid impression of the social background of his period."--Peter Quennell The last two volumes of Casanova's account of his extraordinary life include the story of ... see all copies from £4.19! new only from £5.92! \| first editions
6	Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France more books like this by Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis add to wishlist This book is an account of life and death in early modern France. It is an analysis of the crime stories which men and women told their judges in order to try to save themselves from the gallows. To receive a royal pardon for murder in 16th century France, a supplicant had to tell the king a story. Thousands of such stories are found in the French ... see all copies from £11.22! new only from £18.13! \| first editions
7	Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust more books like this by Professor Paul De Man add to wishlist 'Through elaborate and elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust's Remembrance, Nietzsche's philosophical writings and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, and language, he says is always unreliable, slippery, impossible....Literary narrative, because it must rely ... see all copies from £10.91! new only from £15.68! \| first editions
8	Introducing Camus more books like this by David Zane Mairowitz, Alain Korkos (Illustrator) add to wishlist Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, always refused the existentialist label with which he is usually associated. For Camus, the world was 'absurd', without purpose, leading only unto death, yet all the more invigorating precisely because of this. Long associated with Left-Bank intellectuals, Camus' real emotional centre ... see all copies from £1.26! new only from £5.02!
9	Paris spleen, 1869 more books like this by Charles Baudelaire add to wishlist see all copies from £4.53! new only from £4.53! \| first editions
10	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 £12.45! new only from £28.37!
11 view cover	Exercices de Style more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist see all copies from £1.99! new only from £7.45!
12 view cover	Notebooks 1935-1942 more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist see all copies from £5.92! first editions
13 view cover	I Can't Go On, I'll Go on: A Samuel Beckett Reader more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist see all copies from £6.51! new only from £10.73! \| first editions
14 view cover	Using French Synonyms more books like this by R E Batchelor, M H Offord add to wishlist This new guide to French synonyms is the first to be produced specifically for English speaking students of French. Its aim is to enable them to develop, broaden, and enhance their awareness of the complexity and richness of French vocabulary by presenting, in an easily accessible form, information not readily available in traditional dictionaries ... see all copies from £8.85! new only from £29.34!
15 view cover	The Parasite more books like this by Michel Serres, Lawrence R. Schehr add to wishlist Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue--creating diversity and complexity vital to human life and thought. Michel Serres is ... see all copies from £9.64! new only from £9.64! \| first editions
16 view cover	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 £23.42! new only from £44.02!
17 view cover	The Proust Project more books like this by Andre Aciman (Editor) add to wishlist Edited by André Aciman, a longtime admirer of Marcel Proust, this collection features essays on Proust by 28 writers, including Colm Tóibín, Judith Thurman, Susan Minot, Louis Auchincloss, Shirley Hazzard, Diane Johnson, Louis Begley, Lydia Davis (who has translated SWANN'S WAY), Alain de Botton (author of HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE), Edmund ... see all copies from £5.91! new only from £9.34! \| first editions
18 view cover	Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time more books like this by Roger Shattuck add to wishlist For many years, Roger Shattuck has been mesmerised by one write. First came "Proust's Binoculars", a short, brilliant study published in 1964. Then came "Marcel Proust", commissioned by Frank Kermode for the Modern Masters series, which won the National Book Ward in 1974. A series of essays, lectures and reviews followed. Now, like Richard Ellmann ... see all copies from £7.57! new only from £8.04! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mallarme on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine La Derniere Mode, with Commentary more books like this by P N Furbank (Translator), A M Cain (Translator) add to wishlist In the later months of 1874, the great French poet, Stephane Mallarme, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project - the publication of a fashion magazine ("La Derniere Mode") that he almost single-handedly wrote and edited. Using a variety of feminine and masculine pseudonyms to theorize about the concept of fashion and to report and advise on ... see all copies from £2.96! new only from £2.96! \| first editions
20 view cover	Stendhal; or, The pursuit of happiness more books like this by Matthew Josephson add to wishlist "When Freud read Stendhal's memoirs of his childhood and adolescence he called them 'a manifestation of psychological genius.U Stendhal, he saw, had been a Freudian some 70 years before Freud himself."--"Time" magazine (1946). see all copies from £2.48! new only from £20.84! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Camus more books like this by Edward J Hughes (Editor) add to wishlist Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the author of L'Etranger and the architect of the notion of 'the Absurd' in the 1940s, he shot to prominence in France and beyond. His work ... see all copies from £18.07! new only from £18.31!
22 view cover	Words more books like this by Jean-Paul Sartre add to wishlist After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In "Words", Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World War, an illusion-ridden childhood made bearable by his lively imagination and passion for ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.50! \| first editions
23	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 £8.88! new only from £13.41! \| first editions
24 view cover	The perpetual orgy more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist Mario Vargas Llosa writes about his 30-year love affair with Madame Bovary, the heroine of Flaubert's novel. see all copies from £7.20! new only from £11.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 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 £20.57! new only from £25.14!

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