French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)

French Vernacular Books / Livres vernaculaires français (FB) (2 vols.)

Author: Andrew Pettegree

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 1638

ISBN-13: 9047422449

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This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.


Read & Think French, Premium Second Edition

Read & Think French, Premium Second Edition

Author: The Editors of Think French! Magazine

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1259836304

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Your first-class ticket to building key French language skills From the bestselling Read & Think series, this fully-illustrated guide brings the French language to life! In addition to introducing, developing, and growing key vocabulary, this book gives you an insider’s look at Francophone life and culture—from a trip around Marseilles to a walk through Senegal’s bustling markets, and from biographies of famous French personalities to articles on the customs and gastronomy of French-speaking countries. Including more than 100 engaging articles written by native French-speakers, each one provides a bilingual glossary on the same page, allowing you to learn without stopping to look up new or unfamiliar words. Each chapter contains several exercises to reinforce comprehension and the new premium edition features streaming audio recordings of more than 40 readings (70 minutes) and over 7,000 vocabulary items by flashcard, easily accessible online or on any mobile device, through the unique McGraw-Hill Language Lab app.


One Hundred Great French Books

One Hundred Great French Books

Author: Lance Donaldson-Evans

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933346229

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metropolitan France as well as by francophone authors from Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Belgium and Switzerland, One Hundred Great French Books offers a rich, varied, and multicultural panorama of one of the most beloved and inspiring literatures in the world." --Book Jacket.


French Books III & IV (FB) (2 vols.)

French Books III & IV (FB) (2 vols.)

Author: Andrew Pettegree

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-10-14

Total Pages: 1964

ISBN-13: 900421500X

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French Books III & IV complete a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all books published in France in the first age of print. It lists over 40,000 editions printed in France in languages other than French during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries together with bibliographical references, an introduction and indexes. It draws on the analysis of over 3,000 collections situated in libraries throughout the world. French Books will be an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. I & II please go to French Vernacular Books.


French Books of Hours

French Books of Hours

Author: Virginia Reinburg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1107007216

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How was the Book of Hours created and used as a book and what did it mean to its owners?


Juniper

Juniper

Author: Thomas French

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 031632440X

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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists. Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly translucent, and through her chest you could see her flickering heart. Babies like Juniper, born at the edge of viability, trigger the question: Which is the greater act of love -- to save her, or to let her go? Kelley and Thomas French chose to fight for Juniper's life, and this is their incredible tale. In one exquisite memoir, the authors explore the border between what is possible and what is right. They marvel at the science that conceived and sustained their daughter and the love that made the difference. They probe the bond between a mother and a baby, between a husband and a wife. They trace the journey of their family from its fragile beginning to the miraculous survival of their now thriving daughter.


Le Roman de Tristan Et Iseut

Le Roman de Tristan Et Iseut

Author: Joseph Bdier

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-07-16

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781548956196

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Le roman de Tristan et Iseut by Joseph B�dier


The Festival of Insignificance

The Festival of Insignificance

Author: Milan Kundera

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 0063290723

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“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”— Boston Globe From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an entertaining and enchanting novel—"a fitting capstone on an extraordinary career." (Slate) Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated by the reality of the contemporary world and at the same time completely avoiding realism—that’s The Festival of Insignificance. Readers who know Milan Kundera’s earlier books know that the wish to incorporate an element of the “unserious” in a novel is not at all unexpected of him. In Immortality, Goethe and Hemingway stroll through several chapters together talking and laughing. And in Slowness, Vera, the author’s wife, says to her husband: “you’ve often told me you meant to write a book one day that would have not a single serious word in it…I warn you: watch out. Your enemies are lying in wait.” Kundera is finally and fully realizing his old aesthetic dream in this novel that we could easily view as a summation of his whole work. A strange sort of summation. Strange sort of epilogue. Strange sort of laughter, inspired by our time, which is comical because it has lost all sense of humor. What more can we say? Nothing. Just read.


Monsieur Linh and His Child

Monsieur Linh and His Child

Author: Philippe Claudel

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 0857385712

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Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. To begin with, he is too afraid to leave the refugee centre, but the first time he braves the freezing cold to walk the streets of this strange, fast-moving town, he encounters Monsieur Bark, a widower whose dignified sorrow mirrors his own. Though they have no shared language, an instinctive friendship is forged; but Monsieur Linh's stay in the dormitory is only temporary. Sooner or later he and his child must find a permanent home. Delicate and restrained, but with an extraordinary twist, Monsieur Linh and His Child is an immensely moving novel of perfect simplicity, by the author of Brodeck's Report.