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  • Who Owns This Sentence?

    A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    by David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu ...
    **A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely." —Louis Menand, The New YorkerA fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.**Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    "An award-winning translator describes and defends his profession. . . . Ultimately illuminating, even transformative." — Kirkus Reviews"Dazzingly inventive." — New York Times Book Review , A Notable Book of the Year"A richly original cultural history." — The Economist , A Book ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Maigret
    In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes.When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from Interpol that Pietr the Latvian, an infamous con man, is on his way to Paris, he rushes to intercept him at the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Novel of the Century

    The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

    by David Bellos ...
    This "impeccably researched and pithily written" volume reveals the dramatic life of Victor Hugo's literary masterpiece ( The New York Times ).Les Misérables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert's dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned since its first publication in 1862. Whether we encounter Victor Hugo's story on the page, onstage, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jacques Tati

    by David Bellos ...
    The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Life: A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
    The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Georges Perec: A Life in Words

    by David Bellos ...
    "It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation.David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Pitards (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    Aboard a cargo ship on a hazardous voyage, ominous prophecies cause troubling misapprehensions, disputes, paranoia, and ultimately tragedy.Émile Lannec thinks it’s madness for his wife, Mathilde, to join him on the maiden voyage of his freighter, the Tonnerre-de-Dieu. She had insisted on coming, probably at the behest of her mother, Madame Pitard, who cosigned the loan to buy the ship. Predictably ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Siege

    by Ismail Kadare, David Bellos ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    Series series Canons
    In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable.Soon enough dust kicked up by Turkish horses is spotted from a citadel. Brightly coloured banners, hastily constructed minarets and tens of thousands of men fill the plain below. From this moment on, the world ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Romain Gary

    A Tall Story

    by David Bellos ...
    Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different names in two languages, English and French, neither of which was his mother tongue. Gary had a gift for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Cousin Bette

    Translated by Sylvia Raphael ...
    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere

    A Novel

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    The posthumously published first novel from the acclaimed French author of Life: A User's Manual offers "glimpses of Perec's future greatness" ( The New Yorker).Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus