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  • One Luckì Day

    by Lahsann Rogers, Pearson Rogers ...
    Series Book 1 - BITA
    One Luckì DayOne night. One meeting. One twist of fate.Luckì Prince Cunningbur never thought his career in high-profile event planning would lead him straight into the path of Hollywood's brightest star-Jade Star. She is beautiful, successful, and untouchable, but behind the cameras and flashing lights, she carries the weight of a devastating past.For years, Jade has built a world w... ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Germinal

    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern FranceÉtienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • La Bête humaine

    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Beauty of Baudelaire

    The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver

    by Roger Pearson ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris. It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire's ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Candide and Other Stories

    by Voltaire ...
    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ing--ecirc--;nu, and The White Bull - and a verse tale based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale,: What Pleases the Ladies. - ;'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Masterpiece

    Translated by Thomas Walton ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Voltaire Almighty

    by Roger Pearson ...
    Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refused to die; and when he did consent to expire some eighty-four years later, he secured a Christian burial despite a bishop's ban.During much of his life Voltaire was the toast ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Stéphane Mallarmé

    by Roger Pearson ...
    Series Book 28 - Critical Lives
    At the age of fifty Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) spoke of his published work as ‘very precise reference points on my mind’s journey’. In Stéphane Mallarmé, Roger Pearson charts that journey for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. ‘A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet’, he declared at the age ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A Life

    The Humble Truth

    by Guy de Maupassant, Roger Pearson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Stendhal

    The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma

    Edited by Roger Pearson ...
    Series series Modern Literatures In Perspective
    Both critic and writer, Stendhal has now become established as one of realism's founding fathers. Dr Pearson's book maps out, for the first time, the critical reception of Stendhal's two most widely read novels, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma since their publication in 1830 and 1839 respectively. In part one he provides generous samples of the most important nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Germinal

    Penguin Classics

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Josh Dylan ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 13 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelligent but with little education and a dangerous predisposition to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Blue and You

    The Cop's Son

    by Lahsann Rogers, Pearson W Rogers ...
    Series Book 2 - BITA
    The Blue and You: The Cop's Son Edition (Bita Vol. 2) Companion Novel to BITA Vol. 1- One Lucki Day"Newtone" Roberts never wanted to be a cop-he wanted to be a legend. But when his family is slaughtered before his eyes, his past catches up to him in a way he never saw coming.A former hustler turned devoted father, Newtone thought he had buried the streets along with his old reputation. Dominic ... Read more

    $4.99 USD