The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

The Black Tulip

Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Georges Rodenbach: Critical Essays

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789

Marcel Proust: A Life

The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the <i>Encyclopédie</i>, 1775–1800

The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future

Dangerous Liaisons

A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

The New Gods

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

Les Miserables in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography, and C

Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature

Beauty Raises the Dead: Literature and Loss in the Fin de Siècle

A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning

Dangerous Years

The Dossier of Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple