French: Books and Ebooks
A guide to help you research and locate French materials at Fisk and beyond!
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Le Petit Prince by ISBN: 9782070408504Publication Date: 2000-01-01To all appearances The Little Prince is a children's book. But ever since its original publication in French in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story has enchanted audiences of all ages. The book's beloved hero is a small, blond-haired boy from asteroid B-612, which he leaves to journey across the galaxy.
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French 'Ecocritique' by ISBN: 9781487501457Publication Date: 2018-09-28*Full-text available at EBSCOhost*
French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise questions about nature and environment. Stephanie Posthumus's ground-breaking work brings together thinkers such as Guattari, Latour, and Serres with recent ecocritical theories to complicate what might otherwise become a reductive notion of 'French ecocriticism'.
Webster's New World Concise French Dictionary by ISBN: 0764541587Publication Date: 2003-11-28This concise reference offers basic, everyday French, as well as the idiomatic speech and slang intermediate-level learners need to master the language.
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