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Cyrano De Bergerac
Written by Edmond Rostand
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: November 1, 1950
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21360-7 (0-553-21360-1)
Edmond Rostand's bittersweet melodrama tells the tale of France's master swordsman--Cyrano de Bergerac, a valiant soldier cursed with the face of a clown. Gallantry, love, poetry, and failure all combine in this timeless classic. Read more >
Written by Edmond Rostand
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: November 1, 1950
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21360-7 (0-553-21360-1)
Edmond Rostand's bittersweet melodrama tells the tale of France's master swordsman--Cyrano de Bergerac, a valiant soldier cursed with the face of a clown. Gallantry, love, poetry, and failure all combine in this timeless classic. Read more >
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72516-9 (0-679-72516-4)
In these four plays, Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a... Read more >
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72516-9 (0-679-72516-4)
In these four plays, Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of drama. No Exit is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The Flies is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. Dirty Hands is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. The Respectful Prostitute is a... Read more >
The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 27, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7632-1 (1-4000-7632-3)
Here in one volume is a unique, essential overview of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Extensive excerpts from Sartre's major philosophical and literary writings—Being and Nothingness, The Critique of Dialetical Reason, Nausea, No Exit, The Flies, St. Genet, as well as lesser known works—are organized systematically, illustrating the key elements of... Read more >
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 27, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7632-1 (1-4000-7632-3)
Here in one volume is a unique, essential overview of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Extensive excerpts from Sartre's major philosophical and literary writings—Being and Nothingness, The Critique of Dialetical Reason, Nausea, No Exit, The Flies, St. Genet, as well as lesser known works—are organized systematically, illustrating the key elements of... Read more >
The Reprieve
A Novel
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 7, 1992
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74078-0 (0-679-74078-3)
The second novel of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, The Reprieve is set in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. A masterly historical re-creation, it depicts at once the negotiations between the British government... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 7, 1992
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74078-0 (0-679-74078-3)
The second novel of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, The Reprieve is set in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Munich Pact and the subsequent takeover of Czechoslovakia in September 1938. A masterly historical re-creation, it depicts at once the negotiations between the British government... Read more >
Troubled Sleep
A Novel
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 7, 1992
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74079-7 (0-679-74079-1)
The third novel of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, Troubled Sleep powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished feelings of a group of Frenchmen, whose war apathy gives way to a consciousness of the dignity of individual resistance--to the German occupation and to fate in general--and solidarity... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 7, 1992
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74079-7 (0-679-74079-1)
The third novel of Sartre's Roads to Freedom series, Troubled Sleep powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished feelings of a group of Frenchmen, whose war apathy gives way to a consciousness of the dignity of individual resistance--to the German occupation and to fate in general--and solidarity... Read more >
We Have Only This Life to Live
The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Edited by Adrian van den Hoven and Ronald Aronson
Introduction by Ronald Aronson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-493-7 (1-59017-493-3)
Philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist, and activist, Jean-Paul Sartre was also–and perhaps above all–a great essayist. The essay was uniquely suited to Sartre because of its intrinsically provisional and open-ended character. It is the perfect form in which to dramatize the existential character of our deepest intellectual, artistic, and political commitments... Read more >
The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Edited by Adrian van den Hoven and Ronald Aronson
Introduction by Ronald Aronson
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-493-7 (1-59017-493-3)
Philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, journalist, and activist, Jean-Paul Sartre was also–and perhaps above all–a great essayist. The essay was uniquely suited to Sartre because of its intrinsically provisional and open-ended character. It is the perfect form in which to dramatize the existential character of our deepest intellectual, artistic, and political commitments... Read more >
Words
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1981
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-74709-5 (0-394-74709-7)
Written when he was fifty-nine, this book is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book-loving family and raised by a widowed mother and doting... Read more >
Written by Jean-Paul Sartre
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1981
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-74709-5 (0-394-74709-7)
Written when he was fifty-nine, this book is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book-loving family and raised by a widowed mother and doting... Read more >
The Rabbi's Cat 2
Written by Joann Sfar
Translated by Alexis Siegel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42507-3 (0-375-42507-1)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria’s Jewish community, The Rabbi’s Cat... Read more >
Written by Joann Sfar
Translated by Alexis Siegel
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42507-3 (0-375-42507-1)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria’s Jewish community, The Rabbi’s Cat... Read more >
The Rabbi's Cat
Written by Joann Sfar
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71464-1 (0-375-71464-2)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his... Read more >
Written by Joann Sfar
Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: May 22, 2007
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71464-1 (0-375-71464-2)
The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics artists, The Rabbi’s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat–a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his... Read more >
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The Engagement
Written by Georges Simenon
Afterword by John Gray
Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-228-5 (1-59017-228-0)
On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of... Read more >
Written by Georges Simenon
Afterword by John Gray
Translated by Anna Moschovakis
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-228-5 (1-59017-228-0)
On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of... Read more >
Pedigree
Written by Georges Simenon
Translated by Robert Baldick
Introduction by Luc Sante
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-351-0 (1-59017-351-1)
Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the... Read more >
Written by Georges Simenon
Translated by Robert Baldick
Introduction by Luc Sante
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-351-0 (1-59017-351-1)
Pedigree is Georges Simenon’s longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the... Read more >
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The President
Written by Georges Simenon
Translated by Daphne Woodward
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-935554-62-2 (1-935554-62-X)
At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement–self exile–on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier’s former attaché, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of... Read more >
Written by Georges Simenon
Translated by Daphne Woodward
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-935554-62-2 (1-935554-62-X)
At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement–self exile–on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier’s former attaché, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of... Read more >
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The Red and the Black
Written by Stendhal
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by Diane Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7207-8 (0-8129-7207-4)
A Major New Translation
The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel’s quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters... Read more >
Written by Stendhal
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by Diane Johnson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7207-8 (0-8129-7207-4)
A Major New Translation
The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel’s quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters... Read more >
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The Castle in Transylvania
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-08-0 (1-935554-08-5)
This long-forgotten work of Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, is one of his few writings about the supernatural. This eerie gothic story set in a forgotten valley in the mountains of Transylvania, where demons and vampires menace the populace, pits a young stranger against the forces of evil and... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Charlotte Mandell
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-08-0 (1-935554-08-5)
This long-forgotten work of Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, is one of his few writings about the supernatural. This eerie gothic story set in a forgotten valley in the mountains of Transylvania, where demons and vampires menace the populace, pits a young stranger against the forces of evil and... Read more >
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The Mysterious Island
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7212-2 (0-8129-7212-0)
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7212-2 (0-8129-7212-0)
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
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The Mysterious Island
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6642-8 (0-8129-6642-2)
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6642-8 (0-8129-6642-2)
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >
Genet
A Biography
Written by Edmund White
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75479-4 (0-679-75479-2)
A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France’s most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet’s experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet’s plays, novels, and essays. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award... Read more >
A Biography
Written by Edmund White
Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 4, 1994
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75479-4 (0-679-75479-2)
A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France’s most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet’s experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet’s plays, novels, and essays. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award... Read more >
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The Case of Dr. Sachs
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-261-4 (1-58322-261-8)
•Winner of the Prix du Livre
•Winner of the 2000 French-American Foundation Translation Award
Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Martin Winckler
Translated by Linda Asher
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 4, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-261-4 (1-58322-261-8)
•Winner of the Prix du Livre
•Winner of the 2000 French-American Foundation Translation Award
Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures... Read more >
The Belly of Paris
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7422-5 (0-8129-7422-0)
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... Read more >
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7422-5 (0-8129-7422-0)
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and... Read more >
