Books in the French Texts series

Text in French, with introd. and notes in English.

In a tale of West Indian legend, magic, folk-loric wisdom and reverence for the elderly or deceased, great-grandmother of Minerve, the elderly Telumee, tells the story of her difficult life after recounting the equally difficult experiences of her female ancestors.

French text with English introduction and notes.

A critical edition of "Le Misanthrope". The introduction examines the interlocking levels of comedy apparent both in the play's literary texture and in the original performance, and discusses the history of its reception, showing how it is constantly adapted to the values of changing times.

A gothic tale of murder and adultery, Therese Raquin was denounced aspornography on its publication in 1867. "Putrid literature" was howLouis Ulbach described the novel in a contemporary review.

A romantic novel set in Paris during the final years of the First World War in which the narrator, a sixteen-year-old boy, recounts his love affair with a woman whose husband is fighting at the Front. From the author of COMTE D'ORGEL. In French.

A title in the BCP French Texts series, in French with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. This anthology of poems by Pierre de Ronsard contains light poetry, such as witty love poems, as well as philosophical and meditative poetry.

This edition of Maeterlinck's "Peleas et Melisande" includes English language introduction and notes, and is designed to make accessible a classic text which heralded the ethos of modernism of the late 20th century.