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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • La Batarde

    by Violette LeDuc ...
    Translated by Derek Coltman ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women.When first published, La Bâtarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of ... Read more

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  • Giovanni's Room

    by James Baldwin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel whose frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance was decades ahead of its time—named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the past 100 years“Baldwin writes . . . with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and intensity.”—The New York TimesIn 1950s Paris, a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lisette's List

    A Novel

    by Susan Vreeland ...
    From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war.In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, André, move from Paris to a village ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Grand Hotel

    by Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Translated by Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Suite Francaise

    A Novel

    by Irene Nemirovsky ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II—a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler’s horrors march closer and closer to their doors" (New York).“Stunning.... A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review**Beginning in Paris ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Madame Bovary

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker**Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home ... Read more

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  • Arch of Triumph

    A Novel

    by Erich Maria Remarque ...
    Translated by Walter Sorell, Denver Lindley ...
    The evocative story of a man without a country, Arch of Triumph is a World War II–era classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front.It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic—a German doctor and refugee living in Paris—has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Saint-Fiacre Affair (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    Series Book 13 - Inspector Maigret
    An evocative tale from Georges Simenon that unearths the inspector’s past: Maigret finds an anonymous note predicting a crime in his hometown.I wish to inform you that a crime will be committed at the church of Saint-Fiacre during first mass on All Souls’ Day.This handwritten note is deposited at the headquarters of the Police Judiciaire in Paris. Maigret sets off for the village, having been ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet

    A Novel

    by Maureen Gibbon ...
    Set in the richly drawn art world of nineteenth-century Paris, this stunning historical novel imagines Édouard Manet's last days in an indelible snapshot of genius, illness, and the dying embers of passion.Suffering from the complications of syphilis toward the end of his life, Édouard Manet begins to jot down his daily impressions, reflections, and memories in a notebook. He travels for healing ... Read more

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  • The Belly of Paris

    by Emile Zola ...
    Translated by Mark Kurlansky ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother’s family in the newly rebuilt Les ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • She Who Was No More

    by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury ...
    Series Book 3 - Pushkin Vertigo
    A couple's murderous plot goes horribly awry in this French noir classic that later inspired the Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece PsychoEvery Saturday evening, travelling salesman Ferdinand Ravinel returns to his wife, Mireille, who waits patiently for him at home. But Ferdinand has another lover, Lucienne—an ambitious doctor—and together the adulterers have devised a murderous plan.Drugging Mireille, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Man who Walked Through Walls

    by Marcel Ayme ...
    Translated by Sophie Lewis ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime ... Read more

    $11.99 USD