Edexcel A Level English Literature Texts in Translation
This selection of titles contains French editions of the set texts on the Edexcel A Level English Literature list. Each title can be purchased separately.
Adolescent/Adult
Antoine et Cléopâtre - £14.75
Following Caesar's assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his... read more...
Auprès de moi toujours - £12.75
In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of... read more...
Ce que savait Maisie - £11.95
Maisie's parents go through an acrimonious divorce when she is very young, and the court decrees that she will travel between them, spending time with... read more...
En attendant Godot - £7.00
L'attente comprend deux phases, l'ennui et l'angoisse. La pièce comprend donc deux actes, l'un grotesque, l'autre grave. Préoccupé de... read more...
Expiation - £13.50
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in... read more...
Frankenstein - £6.35
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous... read more...
Hommage á la Catalogne - £11.75
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism... read more...
Hurlevent des monts - £7.95
Raised together on the Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Catherine become lovers and soul mates so utterly inseparable that their destiny seems inevitable.... read more...
L'indésirable - £25.75
One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician,... read more...
La couleur pourpre - £10.50
Set in the deep American South between the wars, "The Colour Purple" is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation.... read more...
La Duchesse d'Amalfi - £11.75
In an attempt to prevent the fiercely independent Duchess from marrying the man she loves, her corrupt brothers go on a disturbing quest to destroy her.... read more...
La mégère apprivoisée - £10.00
The beautiful but sharp-tongued "shrew" Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. Her younger sister Bianca, meanwhile,... read more...
La Nuit des Rois (traduction de Pierre Leyris)... - £12.50
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf,... read more...
La pierre de lune - £11.95
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth... read more...
La servante ecarlate - £12.50
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall... read more...
La Terre natale - £12.50
The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge... read more...
Le coeur des ténèbres - £9.20
Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane,... read more...
Le Joy Luck Club - £9.40
In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared loss and hope,... read more...
Le secret de Lady Audley - £11.95
Wealthy estate owner sir Michael Audley willingly marries a gold-digger, his only daughter Alicia's governess Lucy née Gray. Sir Michael's dashing,... read more...
Le songe d'une nuit d'été - £2.20
On a Midsummer's night, four young lovers find themselves wrapped in the dream-like arms of an enchanted forest where sprites lurk and fairies rule. While... read more...
Les aventures d'Huckleberry Finn - £12.95
Refusing to be civilized by Southern society or cowed by his drunken father's lashings, young Huckleberry Finn decides he has only one option left: fake... read more...
Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul - £13.95
Au début des années 70, Amir et Hassan, frères de lait, embrasent le ciel de Kaboul de leurs cerfs-volants. Jusqu'à ce jour, terrible,... read more...
Les Peintres au charbon - £18.50
In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art Appreciation evening class. Unable... read more...
Les temps difficiles - £10.95
"Les temps difficiles", the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the... read more...
Mille soleils splendiddes - £12.95
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila,... read more...
Putain de mort - £24.75
Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting... read more...
Route des Indes - £27.95
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced... read more...
Sept mers et treize rivières - £23.75
Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat... read more...
Tess d'Uberville - £9.95
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her... read more...
Tout s'effondre - £8.00
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also... read more...
Un tramway nommé désir suivi de... - £15.75
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella... read more...
