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  • Solo

    by Frank Cyril Shaw Davison ...
    Solo by Frank Cyril Shaw Davison is a striking work of classic fiction that explores themes of isolation, identity, and personal endurance. Through a compelling narrative centered on a lone protagonist, the novel delves into the psychological and emotional challenges of confronting life without companionship or certainty. As the story unfolds, the central character is drawn into a series of ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Domain

    by Alain-Fournier, Adam Watt ...
    Translated by Frank Davison ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am looking for something still more mysterious: for the path you read about in books, the old lane choked with undergrowth whose entrance the weary prince could not discover.' The Lost Domain (1913) is an adventure story as well as a lyrical homage to life in pre-war rural France. One of France's best-loved and most read novels of all time, it is a tale of growing up, friendship, love, and loss ... Read more

    $13.69 CAD

  • Hare and Tortoise

    An Allegorical Tale of Patience and Humility

    by Frank Cyril Shaw Davison ...
    In "Hare and Tortoise," Frank Cyril Shaw Davison delivers a poignant retelling of the classic fable, intricately woven with rich imagery and allegorical depth. Through masterful storytelling, Davison elongates the debate on hubris and diligence, employing vivid characters to explore themes of perseverance and the often-unexpected nature of success. The literary style, marked by a rhythmic ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Domain

    Le Grand Meaulnes

    Translated by Frank Davison ...
    by Alain-Fournier ...
    The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend François Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand Meaulnes, disruptive and charismatic, on his schoolmates, and the encounter that is to haunt them both. Lost, and alone, Meaulnes stumbles upon an isolated ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Flaubert's Parrot

    by Julian Barnes ...
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Scapegoat

    by Daphne du Maurier ...
    Series Book 9 - Virago Modern Classics
    THE CLASSIC THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'What a magnificent thriller this is' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'Tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'He turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realised, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea ... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1

    The Way by Swann's

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

    by Henri Alain-Fournier ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick HornbyThe Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes.When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an ... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vertigo

    by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury ...
    Series Book 5 - Pushkin Vertigo
    The original breath-taking psychological thriller behind Hitchcock’s legendary film—the story of a man tormented by his search for the truth, and ultimately destroyed by a terrible secretIt could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $15.19 CAD