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  • The Queen of Atlantis

    by Pierre Benoit, Hugo Frey ...
    Translated by Arthur Chambers ...
    Series series Bison Frontiers of Imagination
    In 1903 Lieutenant Olivier Ferrières of the French army welcomes Captain de Saint-Avit as the new commandant of his post in Algeria. Shunned by his fellow officers, the captain has been accused of the brutal murder of his friend Lieutenant Morhange, when the two were lost alone in the desert. To Ferrières’s horror, Saint-Avit soon confesses to the crime, unveiling a shocking tale of lost worlds, ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

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    Translated by Christine Donougher ...
    by Victor Hugo ...
    A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs.This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century.Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past ... Read more

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  • Shadows on the Grass

    by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from ... Read more

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  • Lord Jim

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'To the white men in the waterside business and to the captain of ships he was just Jim - nothing more. He had, of course, another name, but he was anxious that it should not be pronounced.' Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman - 'as unflinching as a hero in a book' - who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship ... Read more

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  • Passenger to Teheran

    by Vita Sackville-West ...
    In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. She returned to England ... Read more

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  • A Hero of Our Time

    by Mikhail Lermontov, Andrew Kahn ...
    Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated from those around him yet he is full of passion and romantic ardour, sensitive as well as ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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  • Courage

    by Robert Carter ...
    True love. The terror of war. Rejection. Separation. Reconciliation. COURAGE.France, 1790, and a nation is on the brink of destruction, a not so innocent flirtation at a glamorous ball, a Frenchwoman destined for the guillotine, and a British naval captain who has loved and lost her - these are the ingredients of , Courage, Robert Carter's epic tale of love and war. Add to these the machinations ... Read more

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  • P. C. Wren's STORIES OF THE FOREIGN LEGION: 40+ Stories in One Volume (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. (Stepsons of France, Good Gestes, Flawed Blades & Port o' Missing Men)

    by P. C. Wren, Linden Castermere ...
    P. C. Wren's *Stories of the Foreign Legion* gathers more than forty tales set amid the barracks, deserts, and frontier outposts of the legendary French corps. Written in a vigorous, highly visual prose, these stories combine romance, melodrama, irony, and military adventure, while returning repeatedly to themes of loyalty, disguise, exile, and masculine codes of honour. In the context of early ... Read more

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  • The Country Doctor (Mobi Classics)

    by Honore de Balzac,Ellen Marriage (Translator),Clara Bell (Translator) ...
    On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some considerable length. The melting of the snows had filled the boulder-strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) ... Read more

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  • The Ring of Thoth (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    A simple visit to a museum becomes a fateful encounter for an Egyptologist, who stumbles upon a cryptic secret: an elusive elixir of life and the strange, eerie power of a mysterious ancient ring.From the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the master of crime fiction and creator of Sherlock Holmes, comes a tale of ancient mystery and supernatural power. Originally published in 1890, The Ring of Thoth ... Read more

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  • Egypt

    by Theophile Gautier ...
    Travel essay, first published in French in "The Orient" in 1869. According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as ... Read more

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  • Desert Soul

    A John Murray Journey

    by Isabelle Eberhardt ...
    INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.'Isabelle Eberhardt's writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Often dressed in male clothing and assuming a man's name, she worked as a war correspondent, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD