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  • Against Nature

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness ...
    Translated by Patrick McGuinness ...
    The hero of this curious novel is des Esseintes, a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments, starting with the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Hundred Days

    A Novel

    by Patrick McGuinness ...
    Once the gleaming "Paris of the East," Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia, in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews, grocery shelves are empty, and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis, a young British man arrives to take a university post he never interviewed for. He is taken under the wing of Leo O ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Throw Me to the Wolves

    by Patrick McGuinness ...
    “Compulsively readable.”-New York Times Book Review"A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner."- Jonathan Lee"Elegantly written, darkly entertaining."- John Banville"An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning."- Denise MinaIn the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and a neighbor, a reti... ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • The Conquest of Plassans

    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    by Patrick McGuinness, Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Abbé Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with François, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly falls under the influence of the priest. Ambitious and unscrupulous, Faujas gradually infiltrates ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2

    From Colette to Marie NDiaye

    Edited by Patrick McGuinness ...
    'Beautiful and deep ... **a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times***A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

    From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

    by Various ...
    Translated by Siân Reynolds, David Bellos, Christine Donougher, Ros Schwartz, Dr Will McMorran ...
    'Beautiful and deep ... **a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'F**ood for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of the Year*The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for redisco... ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • The Dream

    by Paul Gibbard, Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Is it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beautiful, because it is rich - because, I think, it brings joy to my heart. . . On Christmas day, in the flurry of a snow storm, the Huberts discover a ragged nine year old girl sheltering under the neighbouring cathedral porch. Childless and pious, the couple take in and raise Angelique as their own. The girl ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • His Excellency Eugène Rougon

    by Brian Nelson, Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper échelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugène ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Money

    Translated by Valerie Minogue ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)

    by Brian Nelson, Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Fortune of the Rougons

    Translated by Brian Nelson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.' Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvère and Miette, two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état in December 1851. They ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Kill

    Translated by Brian Nelson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD