David Coward is Research Professor in French at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on the literature and culture of France since 1700 and has translated tales by Sade and Maupassant, plays by Molière and novels by Diderot and Dumas fils. His English version of Albert Cohen“s Belle du Seigneur was awarded the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Translation in 1996. He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and is a contributor to the literary pages of magazines and newspapers in the UK and US.
50 Ebooks von David Coward
David Coward: A History of French Literature
This magnificent volume provides a complete history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day, taking us beyond traditional definitions of ‚literature‘ into the world of the …
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Frédéric Dard: The Wicked Go to Hell
A taut psychological prison-thriller from Frédéric Dard, one of France's most popular post-war authors A cop receives a mission – to win the confidence of an enemy spy, currently in prison, and …
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Frédéric Dard: The Executioner Weeps
WINNER OF THE 1957 GRAND PRIX DE LA LITTÉRATURE POLICIÉREIt was fate that led her to step out in front of the car. A quiet mountain road. A crushed violin. And a beautiful woman lying motionless in …
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Alexandre Dumas: Vicomte de Bragelonne
It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la …
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Alexandre Dumas: Man in the Iron Mask
One of France’s best-selling writers at the time of the novel’s composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life’s essentials – `l’action et l’amour‘. This historical romance is the …
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Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo
‚people get out of prison, and when they get out, and their name is Edmond Dantes, they take their revenge!’Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dants is arrested on his wedding day …
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: Les Liaisons dangereuses
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and …
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Alexandre Dumas: Man in the Iron Mask
One of France’s best-selling writers at the time of the novel’s composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life’s essentials – `l’action et l’amour‘. This historical romance is the …
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€9.34
Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu …
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€11.44
Marquis de Sade: Crimes of Love
‚Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows…’Who …
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Marquis de Sade: Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, …
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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: Figaro Trilogy
The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with …
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Marquis de Sade: Crimes of Love
‚Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman who murdered your son, the wife of your own father and the ignoble creature who sent your mother to the gallows…’Who …
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€10.37
Marquis de Sade: Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, …
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€9.36
Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure. Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu …
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€11.44
Guy de Maupassant: Day in the Country and Other Stories
This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The …
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos: Les Liaisons dangereuses
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and …
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€8.30
Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo
‚people get out of prison, and when they get out, and their name is Edmond Dantes, they take their revenge!’Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmond Dants is arrested on his wedding day …
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€10.33
Alexandre Dumas: La Dame aux Camelias
La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas’s marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the …
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Alexandre Dumas: Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas’s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas’s most famous …
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Alexandre Dumas: Louise de la Valliere
Louise de la Balliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne or, Ten Years After. Against a tender love story, Dumas continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and …
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Alexandre Dumas: Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world’s greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the …
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Alexandre Dumas: La Dame aux Camelias
La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas’s marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the …
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€9.36
Alexandre Dumas: Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas’s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas’s most famous …
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Gaston Leroux: Phantom of the Opera
‚I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost…I am Erik!’A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine …
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Gaston Leroux: Phantom of the Opera
‚I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost…I am Erik!’A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine …
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Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
‚It is a ripping yarn, but it is also an eerie tale of isolation and madness … with a compellingly Byronic central character‘ Guardian Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a …
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Jean-Baptiste Moliere: Misanthrope and Other Plays
In the seventeenth century, Moli re raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic …
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Jean-Baptiste Moliere: Miser and Other Plays
Moli re combined all the traditional elements of comedy – wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire – to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a …
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Georges Simenon: Carter of ‚La Providence‘
‚Compelling, remorseless, brilliant‘ John Gray What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got …
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Georges Simenon: Grand Banks Caf
A new translation of Georges Simenon’s gripping novel set in an insular fishing community, book eight in the new Penguin Maigret series.It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face …
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Georges Simenon: Man’s Head
‚The father of contemporary European detective fiction‘ Ann Cleeves Slowly the Czech was becoming animated, but in a muted way, so typical of the man. Maigret now noticed his hands, which were long, …
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Georges Simenon: Lock No. 1
A new translation of Georges Simenon’s novel set in claustraphobic provincial town, book eighteen in the new Penguin Maigret series.Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret …
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Georges Simenon: Signed, Picpus
‚Compelling, remorseless, brilliant‘ John Gray A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret’s Dead Man
‚Compelling, remorseless, brilliant‘ John Gray Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. ‚That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying …
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Georges Simenon: Maigret Christmas
Three seasonal stories set in Paris at Christmas, from the celebrated creator of Inspector Maigret. It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister …
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Georges Simenon: Felicie
‚The father of contemporary European detective fiction‘ Ann Cleeves In his mind’s eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose …
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Georges Simenon: Inspector Maigret Omnibus 1
Introducing Inspector Maigret, the literary character behind the major ITV drama starring Rowan Atkinson The first four titles from the new Penguin Inspector Maigret series: Pietr the Latvian, The …
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Michel de Montaigne: What Do I Know?
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose …
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Guy de Maupassant: Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
‚It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.’Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not …
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Guy de Maupassant: Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
‚It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.’Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not …
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