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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • The Planetarium

    by Nathalie Sarraute ...
    Translated by Maria Jolas ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on the emotional lives of the characters in a way that surpasses even Virginia Woolf. Always deeply ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nausea

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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 Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    **22 classic short stories and novellas of love and death, betrayal and hope—now collected for the first time in this beautiful 720-page volume!“One of the masters of the short story.” —Guardian**In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Our Lady of the Flowers

    by Jean Genet ...
    Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Collected Stories Of Colette

    by Colette ...
    Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella-Vista', 'The Tender Shoot' and 'Le K-pi', Colette's subtle and ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. Shot through with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and fertile French countryside, these short stories reverberate with the fine-spun desire ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Little Virtues

    Essays

    by Natalia Ginzburg ...
    Translated by Dick Davis ...
    In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Childhood

    by Nathalie Sarraute ...
    As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits, which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute's most accessible and emotionally open work. Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing the Continent

    by Michel Tremblay ...
    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    Series Book 1 - The Desrosiers Diaspora
    Born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Cree mother and a French father, Rhéauna, affectionately known throughout Tremblay’s work as “Nana,” was sent with her two younger sisters, Béa and Alice, to be raised on her maternal grandparents’ farm in Sainte-Maria-de-Saskatchewan, a francophone Catholic enclave of two hundred souls. At the age of ten, amid swaying fields of wheat under the idyllic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Very French Christmas

    The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Paul Arène, François Coppée, Anatole Le Braz, Dominique Fabre, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine Gustave Droz, Anatole France, Irène Némirovsky ...
    Series series Very Christmas
    Joyeux Noël: "[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France's most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated." ― Foreword ReviewsThis collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reader for Hire

    by Raymond Jean ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    A beautiful homage to the art of reading - light and funny. A celebration of the union of sensuality and language.Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses an attractive voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in the local paper offering her services as a paid reader. Her first client, a paralysed teenager, is transformed by her reading of a Maupassant short story. Marie-Constance's fame ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthology of Black Humour

    by Andre Breton ...
    Translated by Mark Polizzotti ...
    This is Breton's definitive statement on l'humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism. In his provocative anthology of the writers he most admires, Breton discusses the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg and Duchamp, the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, the wry missives of Rimbaud, the manic paranoia of Dali, the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus