University of Chigago Press offers a free ebook each month, April's is
French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan.
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Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary France of the intelligence. But soon her infatuation with all things French comes up against the dark, unimagined recesses of French political and cultural life.
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Link:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html
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