French Books


The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.90 Difficult to track the history of this stanza poem, but it is thought to be written in the...	Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.00 D.D.R. Owen, late professor emeritus of French in the University of St. Andrews, states of his...	Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautr?amont Best Price: $11.38 This review is of Maldoror, alone. Lautreamont's Maldoror is legendary for its bold and...	Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry) Best Price: $10.49 Aime' Cesaire's "Return to My Native Land," one of the great prose-poetry works of the...	The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyes Best Price: $12.99 If chivalry and courtly love interest you, this collection of romances is sure to please you.



The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $11.76 This is an excellent collection of excerpts from the writings of the 15th century author...	Introduction to French Poetry (Dual-Language) Best Price: $3.49 An excellent tool for French-English speakers or English-French speakers who are interested in...	Essential Poems and Writings of Robert Desnos Best Price: $14.74 This is a very welcome and valuable addition to introduce Anglophone readers to Robert Desnos....	The Poems of Francois Villon Best Price: $15.00 I have always found Villon to be one of the most overlooked poets in history. In fact, it is...	Baudelaire: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Best Price: $6.99 Baudelaire is credited, along with Whitman and Dickinson, with being the inventor of modern...



Shadow (From the French of Blaise Cendrars) Best Price: $3.20 In (...)I used to look at the large posters displayed in the school library showing the various...	The Nature of Things (French Series) Best Price: $14.95 The following is the text of a letter from award-winning translator Barbara Wright on Lee...	Yvain, Or, the Knight With the Lion Best Price: $14.82 The King could not reply to all before he saw the lady coming toward him to hold his stirrup....	Watchfiends & Rack Screams Best Price: $10.50 Antonin Artaud, Watchfiends and Rack Screams (Exact Change, 1995) Will Exact Change ever put...	Bestiary: Or the Parade of Orpheus Best Price: $6.98 This is as close as I've found to a perfect book of poems. Each idea is short, thoughtful, and...

The Mays of Ventadorn (National Geographic Directions) Best Price: $2.88 This is a delightful look at a wonderful place and a marvellous cast of characters by one of our...	The Romance of the Rose Best Price: $19.93 This is a very relaxing yet thought-provoking allegory of life and love, but primarily love. I...	Six Nineteenth Century French Poets: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $7.82 This book is an ideal introduction to some of the most well-known French poets of the period,...	Capital of Pain Best Price: $10.99 It is important that anyone do a little research or have an understanding of this kind of poetry...	Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.18 Having been brought up in a liberal culture which automatically assumed (and taught) that the...

The Art of Poetry (Bollingen Series XLV, Vol. 7) Best Price: $30.54 All of Valery's major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this...	Selected Fables (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.95 A collection of the world?s most beloved fables Jean de la Fontaine popularized some of our...	Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems Best Price: $7.16 "Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems" carries with it a strong...	The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) Best Price: $17.40	The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry Best Price: $21.00 Not since the publication of Paul Auster’s The Random House Book of 20th Century...

Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa 1880-91 Best Price: $10.86 Somebody Else is one of my favorite books. People tend to like Rimbaud for his excesses -- his...	Ideograms in China Best Price: $5.44 Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's Ideograms in China is now...	Song of Roland Best Price: $7.45	Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Poem by Marie De France (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) Best Price: $20.00	The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen De Paris Petits Poemes En Prose Best Price: $4.77 i have several translations of le spleen de paris( in turkish) and want to say that these i have...

Rimbaud: A Biography Best Price: $19.00 I found this book impossible to read. I had hoped to find a substantive biographical...	Pierre Reverdy Selected Poems Best Price: $18.76	Manhood: A Journey from Childhood into the Fierce Order of Virility Best Price: $16.15 Although I'm not a huge fan of philosophy, Manhood is a page turner. Leiris autobiographical...	Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard Best Price: $16.66 Thank-you Mr. Shapiro! Not only for this book, but for your previous translations of LaFontaine,...	Twenty Prose Poems Best Price: $3.85 Modernity is what defines the work of Baudelaire. No elegant poems of love; no...

The Form of the City Changes Faster, Alas, than the Human Heart (French Literature Series) Best Price: $7.89 The Form Of A City Changes Faster, Alas, Than The Human Heart is a collection written as an...	Dreaming the Miracle: Three French Prose Poets: Max Jacob, Jean Follain, Francis Ponge Best Price: $12.36 The prose poem is something of a French specialty. Edgar Allan Poe may have coined the term, but...	Chronicles of King Arthur: 1 Best Price: $10.55 This book is a wonderful resource for both those who are new to the myths of King Arthur and...	Selected Poems of Jacques Prevert tr Carol Porter	Selected Poems (A Calderbook, Cb435) Best Price: $8.53 Along with a few other poets who were in the surrealist group formally but had to maintain a...

Tristran and Yseut: Old French Text With Facing English Translation (American University Studies Series II, Romance Languages and Literature)	Apollinaire, Visual Poetry, and Art Criticism Best Price: $42.50	Selected Poems and Reflections of the Art of Poetry	The Centenary Corbiere Best Price: $10.95 Direct, colloquial, and allusive, these poems evoke the peasants and sailors of Brittany and the...	Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal (2nd edition) Best Price: $20.00 Born in 1913 in Martinique, Aim Csaire is acknowledged as one of the major poets of the...

Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $5.95 An essential book that collects all of Rimbaud's poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed reading each poem...	Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature	Cliges Best Price: $42.82 In this extraordinarily fine translation of Clig_s, the second of five surviving Arthurian poems...	Beyond the Limit-Experience: French Poetry of the Deportation, 1940-1945 (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures) Best Price: $58.95	Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology Best Price: $8.98 Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day...

French Symbolism and the Modernist Movement: A Study of Poetic Structures	Una temporada en el infierno. Iluminaciones/ A Season in Hell. Illuminations (Clasicos De Siempre) Best Price: $4.95	The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State Best Price: $20.00	Gallic Salt: Glimpses of the Hilarious Bawdy World of Old French Fabliaux. Eighteen Fabliaux Translated from the Old French. Best Price: $39.34	Soliel Eclate: Melanges Offerts a Aime Cesaire a L'Occasion De Son Soixante-Dixieme Anniversaire Par Une Equipe International D'Artistes Et De Cherch (Etudes litteraires francaises)

Poems of Andre Breton: A Bilingual Anthology Most of these poems are purely surrealistic, and some others include political and social...	Fifty Fables of La Fontaine Best Price: $18.63 Norman Shapiro's four volumes of La Fontaine translations are better than we have the right to...

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