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  • The Communist of Montmartre

    by Michael Kleeberg ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    Series Book 1 - ERIS gems
    In 1935 Paris, the French Communist Party faces a surreal dilemma: Moscow demands a black African delegate for its upcoming Festival of Peace, but none can be found—until a flamboyant vaudeville performer named Luciano di Lammermoor unexpectedly fits the part.With wit and quiet precision, Michael Kleeberg turns a historical farce into a pointed meditation on identity, ideology ... Read more

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  • The Spy

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    by Paulo Coelho ...
    In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMANWhen Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Last Days of New Paris

    A Novel

    by China Miéville ...
    A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.“Beauty will be convulsive. . . .”In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer—and occult disciple—Jack ... Read more

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  • The Last Love of George Sand

    A Literary Biography

    by Evelyne Bloch-Dano ...
    George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Flaneur

    A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

    by Edmund White ...
    Edmund White has just met you at a party and he's going to tell you about a friend. But his 'friend' is one of the greatest cities in the world, beloved by many and yet really known by only a few. And he is one of those few. -Alexander CheeEdmund White's New York Times bestselling guided sojourn through the streets of Paris, with a new foreword by Alexander Chee.Legendary paterfamilias of queer ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Invisible Love

    by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Five unforgettable stories. "What a delight when a writer hits his target as deftly and with such beauty as Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt does in Invisible Love" ( New York Journal of Books).In this latest collection, two young lovers secretly love the child they will never be able to have; an esteemed physician and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps finds inner peace thanks to the love of a ... Read more

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  • The Necklace

    Simplified for Modern Readers

    by Guy De Maupassant, GeorgeLakon ...
     “The Necklace” (1884) is the Guy de Maupassant short story best known for its surprise ending. -The language of over one hundred years ago has been modernized. -End notes, interpretation, and discussion of major themes follow the text. -Biographical information on Guy de Maupassant is included. -Every effort has been made to keep the story as close to the original as possible. -Modern readers ... Read more

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  • Paris Noir

    The Secret History of A City

    by Jacques Yonnet ...
    Translated by Christine Donougher ...
    In Paris Noir Yonnet tells is about some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Black Mozart

    Le Chevalier De Saint-Georges

    by Walter E. Smith ...
    Long before the word “Super Star” was coined, Saint-Georges was the original. Many people throughout history have been famous for one reason or another. Many have made great contributions to civilization and left great legacies. Their paintings and sculptures we still admire. Their discoveries have made our lives better; their music we still play and sing, but no one in history was as talented in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Novels in Three Lines

    by Félix Fénéon ...
    A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALNovels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s and here translated for the first time into English, is the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair

    Introduction by Claire Messud

    by Irene Nemirovsky ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky’s other novels–all of them newly translated by the award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • La Place de l'Étoile

    by Patrick Modiano ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious ... Read more

    $8.99 USD