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  • The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Alphonse Allais

    by Alphonse Allais ...
    The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Alphonse AllaisThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - À se tordre: Histoires chatnoiresques2 - Contes humoristiques - Tome I3 - Pour cause de fin de bail4 - Deux et deux font cinq ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The World of Alphonse Allais

    by Alphonse Allais, Miles Kington ...
    In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. He carried it off with panache. As Max Harrison said in The Times, '... has done a difficult job well, even preserving some of Allais's puns' ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Life: A User's Manual

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  • Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    by Christian Dior ...
    Translated by Antonia Fraser ...
    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the 'New Look' took the world by storm. Originally published in 1957, this charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment. This book is part of the V&A Fashion Perspectives ... Read more

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  • Leon and Louise

    by Alex Capus ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's ... Read more

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    by Georges Simenon ...
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    Series Book 35 - Inspector Maigret
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  • The Man who Walked Through Walls

    by Marcel Ayme ...
    Translated by Sophie Lewis ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
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  • The Blessing

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  • The Violins of Saint-Jacques

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    On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Caribbean port overlooked by a volcano, and, in time, she shares the story of her youth there in the early twentieth century.Set in the tropical luxury of the island of Saint-Jacques, hers is a tale of romantic intrigue and decadence amongst the descendents ... Read more

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