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  • Saving the Children of the Holocaust

    True Stories of Remarkable Women who Risked their Lives to Save Thousands of Children during World War II

    by Helen Constantine ...
    Saving the Children of the Holocaust tells the astonishing, little-known stories of eight ordinary women who risked everything to save children during one of history's darkest periods.While much has been written about the horrors of the Holocaust, the courage of many who resisted and rescued remains largely unknown. Through extensive research, Helen Constantine shines a light on remarkable women ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Paris Street Tales

    by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Cat and The Masked Woman

    by Diana Holmes, Colette, Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?' Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The Cat (first serialised then published in volume form in 1933) is one of her short novels. This story of a middle-class couple in 1920s Paris follows the familiar romantic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Venice Tales

    by Helen Constantine, Katia Pizzi ...
    Translated by Katherine Gregor, Howard Curtis ...
    Series series City Tales
    Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream-like city uniquely built on ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Sentimental Education

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also finds himself distracted by the equally romantic appeal of political action in the turbulent years ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Athens Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Athens Tales is a portrait of Greece's capital through the city's own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a roughly chronological course from the 1890s to the present day, through these stories, the reader follows the history of Athens through its multiple ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Warsaw Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw's past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city's Nazi occupation, the post ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Mademoiselle de Maupin

    by Theophile Gautier ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his boredom, he is thrown into tumultuous confusion when she receives a dashing young visitor. Exquisitely handsome, Théodore inspires passions d'Albert never believed he could feel for a man - and Rosette ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Paris Metro Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...
    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • French Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the twenty-first, affords readers a panoramic view of French society and culture, reflecting, as it does, its variety and diversity from ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Barcelona Tales

    Edited by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series City Tales
    Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, a multilingual capital of an autonomous region that longs to be independent of Spain. The city is famous for its painters, modernist architecture, style of football, and its history, but as Peter Bush reveals it has always been a major centre of literary talent and creativity. Barcelona Tales presents a selection of newly translated short ... Read more

    $11.39 USD