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A Certain Smile - A Novel by Françoise Sagan; Anne Green (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
Fran oise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less shocking and more psychologically convincing, was preferred by many critics. Like Bonjour Tristesse, this s ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, Francoise Sagan
Category: Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithPublished when she was only eighteen, Fran oise Sagan's astonishing novella, Bonjour Tristesse, became an insta ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse: Penguin Essentials by Françoise Sagan
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary ... This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love'. The French Riviera: home to t ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was considered too daring for 1950s Britain, and sexual scenes were removed for the English publication. Now t ...Show more
The Four Corners of the Heart - An Unfinished Novel by Françoise Sagan; Sophie Lewis (Translator)
Category: Fiction
From the internationally bestselling author of Bonjour Tristesse comes the surprise publication of a novel she never finished--and a story that evokes her greatest works.French literary star Françoise Sagan was just eighteen when she published her first bestseller, Bonjour Tristesse, in 1954. Decades l ...Show more
The Gigolo (Mini Modern Classics) by Françoise Sagan
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create.'A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband is suspected of infidelity; and a dying man reflects on his extramarital affairs, in these tales of love and d ...Show more
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