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  • Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier

    by Claire de Duras, Pratima Prasad ...
    Translated by Chris Miller ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.' A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by Sainte-Beuve and Goethe, imitated by Stendhal, and influencing later writers such as Fromentin, Ourika describes the discrimination suffered by a young Black woman brought up in an aristocratic French ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Sand's Indiana

    Edited by David A. Powell, Pratima Prasad ...
    Series Book 137 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Indiana, George Sand's first solo novel, opens with the eponymous heroine brooding and bored in her husband's French countryside estate, far from her native Île Bourbon (now Réunion). Written in 1832, the novel appeared during a period of French history marked by revolution and regime change, civil unrest and labor concerns, and slave revolts and the abolitionist movement, when women faced rigid ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

    by Pratima Prasad ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire de Duras, and Prosper Mérimée—comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, & Other Writings

    by Marquis de Sade ...
    The biography, the philosophy, and some of the most influential works of the infamous French writer who shocked the world with his erotic novel, Justine.No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds ... Read more

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  • Athenais

    The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France

    by Lisa Hilton ...
    As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, Athenais de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign. photos. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Ruin a Queen

    Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair

    by Jonathan Beckman ...
    In 1785, a sensational trial began in Paris that would divide the country and captivate Europe. A leading Catholic cardinal and scion of one of the most distinguished families in France stood accused of forging the queen's signature to obtain the most expensive piece of jewelry in Europe: a 2,800-carat diamond necklace. Where were the diamonds? Was the cardinal innocent? Was, for that matter, the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Love

    by Stendhal ...
    Translated by Gilbert Sale, Suzanne Sale ...
    In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Translated by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Misanthrope and Other Plays

    by Jean-Baptiste Moliere ...
    Translated by David Coward, John Wood ...
    In the seventeenth century, Molière raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrates the range of Molière's comic vision, his ability to move between the broad and basic ploys of farce to the more subtle and sophisticated level of high ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    by Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Book 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Lemoine Affair

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune.This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.The Lemoine Affair was inspired by the real-life French scandal involving Henri Lemoine, who claimed he could manufacture diamonds from ... Read more

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