French Books


The StrangerThe Stranger
Best Price: $5.47
Camus was well known for defending values of justice, freedom and human dignity, I don't think...
Suite FrancaiseSuite Francaise
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This book was fine. Not great, not awful, just fine. It took a bit of patience to read, but the...
Origins: A MemoirOrigins: A Memoir
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I am amazed with the speed and proffesionalism of delivering and quality of the transaction. ...
The PlagueThe Plague
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In light of the constant scare of chemical warfare we are faced with in this age where even the...
Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Holy crap - we get it already - you dislike Leibniz. I can appreciate satire - I love satire....


Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Bantam Classics)Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Bantam Classics)
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If you are looking for a English translation of JTTCOTE that is faithful to Verne's French one,...
Notebooks 1951-1959Notebooks 1951-1959
Best Price: $17.99
College-level collections strong on Camus will find this a special acquisition presenting the...
The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other EssaysThe Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Best Price: $7.24
Not everyone is inclined to navel lintgazing. Nor is everyone up for the level of effort...
No Exit and Three Other PlaysNo Exit and Three Other Plays
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This book is a wonderful collection of plays written by the brilliant intellect of Sartre. It is...
NauseaNausea
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Sartre's "Nausea" is a gripping, twitchy little novella confirming the ways one person...


How Proust Can Change Your LifeHow Proust Can Change Your Life
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I loved this book. It introduced me to Proust's life and works and so far, I have finished...
The Phantom of the Opera: The Original NovelThe Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
Best Price: $2.94
The Phantom of the Opera: The Original NovelAfter seeing the play years ago and recently seeing...
The AttackThe Attack
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I can't say I enjoyed this book, because the subject matter was so sad. Read it for book club,...
The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics)The Count of Monte Cristo (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $3.06
I bought this book for one of my children for a summer reading project. I needed a specific...
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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You get immersed right away into Nemirovskys' world. Right away with "The Ball" you...

The FallThe Fall
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Bleak but beautiful, The Fall is one of those books that reveals humans for what they are. The...
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
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I admit that I would never have read Madame Bovary for it not being required reading in my...
Wind, Sand and StarsWind, Sand and Stars
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Like many of his contemporaries, European aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944) was...
Story of the EyeStory of the Eye
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George Bataille's brief Sade-esque novella is a mordantly brilliant dip into the post-Nietzschen...
The LoverThe Lover
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Ms. March was entrancing and the photography was superb. It's R rated with reason, and a fairly...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)
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This delightful novel has rekindled my desire to read or re-read the classics. I picked it up...
Best Short Stories (Dual-Language)Best Short Stories (Dual-Language)
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Contrary to all silly 19th Century notions of linguistics and Saxon ethnicity, English and...
The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)The Count of Monte Cristo (Modern Library Classics)
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Fifteen hundred pages, what a whopper of a story, but I've read far shorter books that bored me...
Les Miserables (Enriched Classics)Les Miserables (Enriched Classics)
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I like teaching this novel, but I don't have time to teach the full text. This abridgement does...
Night FlightNight Flight
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There already exist a dozen or more excellent reviews on this early aviation piece. I humbly...

Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Candide: Or Optimism parodies the classic, romantic coming-of-age story, with the young title...
The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)
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Its a fast-paced book with few lulls, not 2 many dead moments. It is much funnier than I thought...
The 120 Days of Sodom and Other WritingsThe 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
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After reading through such a phenomenal sequence of tales found in the Grove Press collection of...
Fire in the Blood (Vintage International)Fire in the Blood (Vintage International)
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The astonishing story behind Ir?ne N?mirovsky's posthumous 2004 novel, Suite Francaise, about...
Candide (A Norton Critical Edition)Candide (A Norton Critical Edition)
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Candide is another one of those books I wish I'd been forced to read at some point in my...

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Enriched Classic)Journey to the Center of the Earth (Enriched Classic)
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A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, this science fiction tale delves into the...
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book)Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book)
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Pretty good book, but unfortunately not really the complete history of punk rock. It...
Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel TextShort Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text
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Great practice for intermediate to advanced French learners. Some stories require quite a lot...
Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)
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The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on Eleanor Marx Aveling's celebrated...
Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)Cyrano de Bergerac (Dover Thrift Editions)
Best Price: $1.33
This book came quickly, and was the correct book for the reading list for my daughter who is in...

Exercises in StyleExercises in Style
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Humorous and instructive. The story of an altercation on a bus, an apparition with a hat...
Tartuffe, by MoliereTartuffe, by Moliere
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Intriguing and entertaining, the play Tartuffe is a satire displaying the scandalous truths and...
Have Mercy on Us All: A Novel (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries)Have Mercy on Us All: A Novel (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries)
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I overall liked reading the book, plot etc., however, I did find the ending a bit hasten and...
Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics)Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics)
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D.D.R. Owen, late professor emeritus of French in the University of St. Andrews, states of his...
Les Miserables (Modern Library)Les Miserables (Modern Library)
Best Price: $17.75
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo’s tour...

Hugo's Les Miserables (Cliffs Notes)Hugo's Les Miserables (Cliffs Notes)
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Well, it's Cliff's Notes. There isn't much to say. But it does quite a fair job of clarifying...
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
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I think it was Kierkegaard who advised to be aware of entangling alliances. The web of sin in...
Leo AfricanusLeo Africanus
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I've read this book several times now, and what I find most appealing is the ease at which the...
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (New York Review Books Classics)The Case of Comrade Tulayev (New York Review Books Classics)
Best Price: $8.35
A voracious reader I thought I finished the Russian classics when I completed Cancer Ward and...
The Count of Monte Cristo (Cliffs Notes)The Count of Monte Cristo (Cliffs Notes)
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The Cliff Notes guide to "The Count of Monte Cristo" is a superficial, error-riddled...

Le Chat ChapeauteLe Chat Chapeaute
Best Price: $11.53
I ordered this book to share with our two-year old son, who loves every single Dr Seuss book. We...
The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics)The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $8.74
Not Zola's best work by a long shot, but mostly a good read. The many pages of description,...
Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautr?amontMaldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautr?amont
Best Price: $11.22
This review is of *Maldoror*, alone. Lautreamont's *Maldoror* is legendary for its bold and...
Wash This Blood Clean from My HandWash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Best Price: $7.71
This book is certainly entertaining and hard to put down once you've started reading. Unlike...
The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)
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The entire Musketeer series is a great read mixing adventure, comedy, and history. It tells the...

The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics)The Three Musketeers (Barnes & Noble Classics)
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS ranks as one of the ten best books I've ever read. With fast-paced and...
Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.25
I loved the movie Dangerous Liasons with Glenn Close and John Malkovich and decided to try this...
The Count of Monte CristoThe Count of Monte Cristo
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The problem is that this is an incredibly bad abridged version. There are a number of problems...
Lost Illusions (Modern Library Classics)Lost Illusions (Modern Library Classics)
Best Price: $8.70
The Human Comedy is a saga of 92 novels that Balzac said was written by French society. Legend...
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost TimeProust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
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Roger Shattuck has written on Marcel Proust and his "In Search of Lost Time" for over...

The Portable Voltaire (The Viking Portable Library)The Portable Voltaire (The Viking Portable Library)
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Incorporating the Philosophical Dictionary into this paperback along with the standards...
Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)
Best Price: $1.92
I just read Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Besides a great book and a fun read, I...
The Possibility of an Island (Vintage International)The Possibility of an Island (Vintage International)
Best Price: $8.29
This is the first Houellebecq book I've read. I had a hard time deciding where to start, and I...
  
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