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VINGT MILLE LIEUES SOUS LES MERS Texte restaure JULES VERNE Edition etablie, annotee et presentee par William Butcher 636pp. Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand. 28 [euro]. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the [...]

ALBUM ROMAIN GARY Collection album de la Pleiade MAXIME DECOUT 248pp. Gallimard. 22 [euro]. ROMANS ET RECITS, I & II ROMAIN GARY Edited by Mireille Sacotte et al 1,688pp and [...]

Jules Verne Edited by William Butcher 513pp. Galllmard. Jules Verne's 'balloon story', published in 1863, was the first of his sixty novels of adventure and science fantasy. It tells how [...]

JOURNEY TO ITALY MARQUIS DE SADE Translated, introduced and annotated by James A. Steintrager 832pp. University of Toronto Press. $125. Travel books were Europe's introduction to relativism. 'Abroad' was a [...]

THE KING OF NAZI PARIS Henri Lafont and the gangsters of the French Gestapo CHRISTOPHER OTHON 306pp. Biteback. 20 [pounds sterling]. In June 1940, Henri Chamberlin, thirty-nine, a petty thief [...]

THE DEATH OF CAMUS GIOVANNI CATELLI Translated by Andrew Tanzi 154pp. Hurst. Paperback, 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ALBERT CAMUS SPENT Christmas 1959 at his house in the Vaucluse with his family [...]

PIERRE LOTI RICHARD M. BERRONG 214pp. Reaktion. Paperback, 11.99 [pounds sterling]. In 1887 the self-mythologizing Frank Harris attended a ball where he met Pierre Loti dressed as a gaudy Osiris [...]

Nicolas Pagnol MARCEL PAGNOL 1895-1974 L' Album d'une vie 230pp. Llammarion. 24.90 [euro]. 978 2 0814 1326 9 Marcel Pagnol 'JE TE SOUHAITE BEAUCOUP D'ENNEMIS COMME MOI' Correspondances intimes et [...]

Robert Darnton A LITERARY TOUR DE FRANCE The world of books on the eve of the French Revolution 336pp. Oxford University Press. 25.49 [pounds sterling] 978 0 19 514451 2 [...]

Cyrano de Bergerac has suffered multiple identity theft. It was stolen in 1897 by Edmond Rostand who used him, his name and his nose for an intoxicatingly successful verse play, [...]

Michel Delon THE LIBERTINE The art of love in eighteenth century France Translated by John Goodman 496pp. Abbeville Press, 100 [pounds sterling] (US $150). 978 0 7892 1147 7 The [...]

Michel Deon THE FOUNDLING'S WAR Translated by Julian Evans 464pp. Gallic. Paperback, 9.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 908313 71 3 The Foundling Boy (reviewed in the TLS, May 2, 2014) [...]

Tom Reiss THE BLACK COUNT Glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo 414pp. Harvill Seeker. Paperback, 8.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 099 57513 9 It is a [...]

Sir,--Christian Weise is quite right to point out (Letters, March 14) that Captain Nemo, unnamed in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1869), resurfaces in The Mysterious Island (1874-5) as [...]

James MacManus BLACK VENUS 354pp. Duckworth Overlook. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 7156 4742 3 Baudelaire's 'Venus noire', whom he also called tigress, vampire and ebony-thighed witch, appears almost exclusively [...]

Dave Eggers THE STORY OF CAPTAIN NEMO Illustrated by Fabian Negrin 104pp. Pushkin. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 78269 018 4 From Eugene Sue and Dumas pere to Gerard de [...]

Julie Kavanagh THE GIRL WHO LOVED CAMELLIAS The life and legend of Marie Duplessis 288pp. Knopf. 19.99 [pounds sterling] (US $27.95). 978 0 307 27079 5 Alexandre Dumas fils THE [...]

Sally Dugan BARONESS ORCZY' S 'THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL' A publishing history 296pp. Ashgate. 60 [pounds sterling] (US $104.95). 9781 4094 2717 9 That demmed elusive Pimpernel' started life in a [...]

Xavier de Maistre A JOURNEY AROUND MY ROOM Translated by Andrew Brown 145pp. Alma Classics. Paperback, 7.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84749 308 8 Confined in 1790 to his room [...]

Julia V. Douthwaite THE FRANKENSTEIN OF 1790 AND OTHER LOST CHAPTERS FROM REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE 317pp. University of Chicago Press. $45 (paperback, $29); distributed in the UK by Wiley. 31.50 [pounds [...]

Owen Sheers CALON A journey to the heart of Welsh rugby 275pp. Faber. 14.99[pounds sterling]. 978 0 571 29729 0 Every modern rugby union has two hearts', writes Owen Sheers, [...]

Michel Ferry, with Christopher Todd LES GRANDES ONDES Memoires d'un homme de radio 322pp. L'Harmattan. 32 [euro]. 978 2 296 96390 0 In 1923, Michel Ferry (1912-86) was given a [...]

The literary magazine Tel Quel was the venue for French intellectuals for 25 years. Its six-man editorial committee published experimental fiction of their own and used their columns to start theoretical debates on various issues. In the late 1960s, the magazine turned towards politics due to the Vietnam war and growing interest in Maoism. The influence of Tel Quel by the 1970s became widespread.

Georges Perec LE CONDOTTIERE 208pp. Seuil. 17 [euro]. 978 2 02 103053 2 Le Condottiere is one of three fictions completed by Georges Perec (1936-82) between 1957 and 1963, none [...]

Jean-Marie Bias de Robles WHERE TIGERS ARE AT HOME Translated by Mike Mitchell 741pp. Dedalus. 20 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 907650 16 1 Eleazard von Wogau, an occasional Reuters correspondent [...]

Raymond Birn ROYAL CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE 216pp. Stanford University Press. US $60; distributed in the UK by Eurospan. 41.20 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 8047 6359 2 Pre-publication [...]

Gustave Flaubert MADAME BOVARY Translated by Adam Thorpe 350pp. Vintage Classics. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 09 952986 6 Sentences like this one, because they are simple and contain nothing [...]

Paul Morand TENDER SHOOTS Foreword by Marcel Proust Translated by Euan Cameron 142pp. Pushkin Press. Paperback, 12 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 906548 65 0 When Paul Morand (1888-1976) published Tendres [...]