BEGAG, AZOUZ: LE GONE DU CHAÂBA
Autobiographical novel about a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown in Lyon, known as The Chaâba by its residents.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Editions du Seuil ISBN: 9782020800327 - £9.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - SHANTYTOWN KID : LE GONE DU CHAABA
University of Nebraska Press ISBN 9780803262584 - £14.99
CAMUS, ALBERT: L'ÉTRANGER
Camus looks at all the events leading up to a man shooting another man dead, as well as exploring the issued of the meaninglessness of life.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Gallimard ISBN: 9782070360024 - £7.25
Routledge, ISBN: 9780415025867 - £21.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - OUTSIDER
Penguin ISBN: 9780141198064 - £7.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: L'ETRANGER: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL FRENCH SET TEXT
This guide for L'etranger is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent revision, providing insight into characters, theme and language,with activities in French that prompt a closer analysis of the text.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418344 2017 - £9.50
COLETTE: LE BLÉ EN HERBE
Colette’s, at the time a controversial novella, set in the 1920s describing the physicality relationship of two friends moving from childhood into adulthood.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Garnier Flammarion, ISBN: 9782081354524 - £5.70
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RIPENING SEED - AT PRESENT OUT OF PRINT
Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780140183214
ERNAUX, ANNIE: LA PLACE
A daughters reflexion on her father's life beginning with her father's birth in 1899 till is death in 1967
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Folio ISBN: 9782070377220 - £6.95
Routledge ISBN: 9780415059268 - £21.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A MAN'S PLACE
Seven Stories Press. ISBN: 9781609804039 - £8.99
JOFFO, JOSEPH.: UN SAC DE BILLES
Memoir about young Joseph Joffo who, as a ten year old Jew, is given five thousand francs and instructed with his brother to flee Nazi-occupied Paris.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Routledge ISBN: 9780415017152 - £21.99
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253029496 - £7.90
Hachette ISBN: 9782011611543 - £8.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - A BAG OF MARBLES
Univ.Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226400693 - £18
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: UN SAC DE BILLES : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL FRENCH
This accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891878 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: UN SAC DE BILLES: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL FRENCH SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418337 2018 - £9.50
MAUPASSANT, DE GUY: BOULE DE SUIF
The ten travellers, constituting a microcosm of French society, share a stagecoach to flee to Le Havre in the Franco-Prussian War.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Editions Gallimard (Folio Plus Collège) ISBN: 9782070793167 - £3.55
Boule de suif : et autres nouvelles Editions Larousse ISBN: 9782035834232 - £4.40
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN - THE BEST SHORT STORIES
Wordsworth Classics. ISBN: 9781853261893 - £1.99
MAURIAC, FRANÇOIS: THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX
Cleared of poisoning her husband we follow Therese Desqueyroux through her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253004219 £7.60
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THERESE
Penguin Modern Classics ISBN: 9780141186221
DVD THERESE DESQUEYROUX (12A) 2012 FRANCE MILLER, CLAUDE £19.99
The film stars Audrey Tautou as the eponymous Thérèse, a cultured and intelligent woman who enters into an arranged marriage in rural 1920s France.
MOLIÈRE: LE TARTUFFE
First performed in 1664 this play is about the religious fraud Tartuffe, who has wormed his way into the affections and household of rich merchant, Orgon.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Larousse ISBN: 9782035859174 - £4.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION -
Nick Hern Books ISBN: 9781854596376 - £4.99
PAGNOL, MARCEL: LE CHÂTEAU DE MA MÈRE
The novel tells the story of growing up in Provence in the early part of the 1900s.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
De Fallois ISBN: 9782877065085 - £8.95
DVD - LE CHATEAU DE MA MERE (U) 1991 FRANCE YVES, ROBERT £19.99
One of the most successful French films based on a Pagnol novel, telling the story of growing up in Provence .
ROCHEFORT, CHRISTIANE: LES PETITS ENFANTS DU SIÈCLE
Written in 1961 this critique of postwar French society follows Josyane Bouvier, who is living in a souless housing estates, from child to young woman.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Le Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253002949 - £7.85
SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL : LES MAINS SALES
Intriguing play about political violence in which a young communist is sent to assassinate another party member who’s qualities he begins to admire.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSIONS -
Folio. ISBN: 9782070368068 - £8.35
Routledge ISBN: 9780415039352 - £20.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - IN THE COLLECTION - NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS
Vintage ISBN: 9780679725169 - £14.95
VIGAN, DELPHINE DE: NO ET MOI
Lou Bertignac, who has an IQ of 160, meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets, and Lou persuades her parents to let No live with them. No's presence forces Lou and her parents to finally face the sadness that has enveloped the family.
FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION -
Livre de Poche ISBN: 9782253124801 - £9.30
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NO AND ME
Bloomsbury ISBN: 9780747599647 - £8.99