French Work

The complete D'Artagnan saga in one unabridged volume. Five novels. Fifty years of French history. One immortal hero. For the first time in a single edition, all five novels of Alexandre Dumas's D'Artagnan Romances: The Three Musketeers — D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, befriends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and crosses swords with Cardinal Richelieu and the legendary Milady de Winter. Twenty Years After — The four friends reunite during the Fronde, divided across political lines, racing to save Charles I from the executioner's axe. The Vicomte de Bragelonne — A new generation rises. ...

The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris. This program includes a...

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This short book considers a short (about thirty-seven page) speech given by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) in 1945. In this speech, "Existentialism is a Humanism," Sartre defended existentialism against its critics. I consider what lessons of wisdom we can take from Sartre's speech. But I do that in a critical way--not in the sense of being hostile or negative but in the sense of examining and weighing what Sartre says to see where I agree and where I disagree. Like him or not, Sartre is a great thinker who is worth considering even if you may reject some or all...

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times...

Lucrezia Floriani has retired from the Italian stage at the height of her fame. She has loved, and had children by different fathers, and lived according to feeling rather than convention, and she is not apologetic about any of it. She has settled into a life centered on her children and on the genuine richness that her nature requires. She is, in any honest accounting, a woman of extraordinary moral seriousness — which is precisely what the moral vocabulary available to her time has no category for. Prince Karol arrives and loves her with an intensity she initially receives as the ...

Late in the first volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, a boy cannot sleep. His mother comes to stay, and she reads to him. What she reads — in the lamplight, on the night that becomes for him one of the indestructible memories of childhood — is François le Champi. Decades later, seeing the same book in a library, the narrator is flooded by the return of everything that reading contained. Proust did not choose this book at random. He chose it because a story about a foundling who found belonging, read by a mother to a child who needed her presence, was the right vessel for the ...

Every word Oscar Wilde published — the novel, the plays, the poems, the essays, the fairy tales, and the two masterpieces he wrote in disgrace — in a single authoritative edition. Oscar Wilde lived two lives simultaneously: the most celebrated wit in Victorian London, and a man whose inner life was at war with everything the society around him demanded. He understood, better than almost anyone before or since, that style is not decoration but argument — that how you say something is inseparable from what you are saying. He paid for that understanding with two years in Reading Gaol and...

Learning a new language as a hobby, like French, can be incredibly satisfying. You are learning a new skill, deepening your mind by learning about a new culture, and exercising your memory. But, did you ever realize that learning French can be a game-changer? As one of the most widely used languages in the world, the ability to speak French can offer new career opportunities as business becomes more global.

One of the founding works of modern science fiction — and one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. In 1866, ships of every nation begin to sink in deep ocean. A monstrous creature — vast, phosphorescent, faster than any vessel — is glimpsed in the waters of the world. The American government sends out the frigate Abraham Lincoln to hunt it down. On board: the French marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land. What they find is not a creature. It is a submarine — the Nautilus — captained by a brilliant, embittered, ...

Build Real Connections — Créez de vraies connexions Félicitations. You’ve completed the first five books. You can describe experiences, express emotions, compare ideas, and tell stories about the past. Now it’s time to build deeper connections in French. French Vocabulary Builder B1.1: Connexions (Constructeur de vocabulaire français B1.1 : Connexions) is the sixth step in your journey. You move beyond everyday French into professional, educational, and media-based French. From Expression to Connection This is where French becomes broader and more sophisticated. You will learn to: ...

Bloomsbury presents Solidarity: The Work of Recognition by Dr. Rowan Williams, read by Niall Lucas. Celebrated thinker Rowan Williams explores the shared burdens and hopes that make solidarity possible. From its use as a rallying cry by the labour movement to its central place in struggles for...

Landry and Sylvinet are twins, and in the Berry village where they have grown up, their closeness is the thing everyone notices first. Sylvinet's version of that closeness has become, over the years, something more consuming: a love for his brother so total that it has organized his entire emotional world around a center that is not himself, that cannot tolerate absence, and that will not easily accommodate the reality that Landry has a life that exists independently of the two of them. When Landry falls in love with Fadette — Fanchon Fadet, the village's wild girl, poor and ...

In the sun-drenched maritime quarter of Montredon, Marseille, Monsieur Coumbes lives a simple life. A humble porter by trade, he finds his greatest joys in his weathered cabin, his stubborn garden where the fierce mistral wind allows nothing to grow, and the ancient art of fishing for the rock fish that make the perfect bouillabaisse. But tranquility shatters when his wealthy neighbor Monsieur Riouffe builds a magnificent chalet nearby, awakening dangerous jealousies and long-buried secrets. Living under Coumbes' protection are Millette and her son Marius—a young man who has always ...

Enter the darkly romantic world of Prosper Mérimée, master of the French short story This essential collection brings together five of Mérimée's most celebrated tales, each a masterpiece of psychological tension and narrative economy. In Colomba, journey to Corsica where honor, vengeance, and ancient blood feuds collide when a young lieutenant returns home to confront his father's unsolved murder. Mateo Falcone explores the brutal price of betrayal in a tale of family honor that will leave you breathless with its shocking conclusion. The Venus of Ille weaves supernatural dread through ...

Two classic novellas. Two strikingly different visions of fate, ambition, and human vulnerability. Pauline & Murat brings together two powerful early works by Alexandre Dumas, published together in 1838 and presented here in a new modern English translation by Eleanor Montfield. In Pauline, Dumas turns inward, crafting a tense gothic psychological tale inspired by real events. A young woman becomes entangled in a marriage shadowed by secrecy, obsession, and violence, as the line between love and danger slowly dissolves. Atmospheric, intimate, and unsettling, Pauline reveals Dumas at his ...

Before Madame Bovary. Before Sentimental Education. Before the ferocious self-discipline that made Flaubert one of the most exacting writers who ever lived — there was a teenager in Rouen, writing in secret, at full intensity, with no audience and no restraint. This collection gathers Flaubert's earliest works, written between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, and published here together for the first time. They include tales of obsession, horror, forbidden passion, satanic rebellion, and premature death — a bookseller who kills for rare volumes; a creature born of man and ape who ...

Personne ne devrait être seul pour Noël. Ce n’est pas le premier Noël que Piper Woodhull passe seule, mais vivre dans une petite ville où elle ne peut échapper à la douleur de son passé est une forme de torture en soi. Voir son ancienne meilleure amie avec sa famille parfaite lui rappelle tout ce que Piper a failli avoir, et peut-être ce qu’elle n’aura jamais. Rudger Pierce a emménagé à Holly Wreath pour repartir à zéro et laisser son passé douloureux derrière lui. Il est convaincu que ce passé a ruiné ses chances de vivre une nouvelle relation, mais en croisant sans ...

George Sand was looking out of her window at Nohant when she began the preface that became one of the most important statements of artistic purpose she ever made. She was watching a ploughman at work in a spring field — his oxen, his small son walking beside him, the patient rhythm of the furrow — and thinking about a Holbein engraving: the medieval ploughman guided through his labor by Death itself, the skeleton driving the furrow alongside the man, the image of peasant life as unrelenting toil haunted by mortality. The scene outside the window was not the scene in the engraving. And ...