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Series
Garnier-Flammarion volume .86
Publisher
Garnier-Flammarion
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The slow but inevitable moral degeneration of a weak woman. Describes the patient rendering of the squalor and narrowness of provincial life and of its effect on the woman's mind.
3) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.
4) The last one
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
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Description
"Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian. The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, the novel has established itself as a modern classic. To commemorate...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 10
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
266 p. map 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1937 Warsaw, on the eve of World War II, intelligence operatives on both sides of the forthcoming struggle wage their own espionage battle in a world of betrayal, intrigue, and abduction.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the center of the tale is Silvio, who in his younger years fled the boredom of the village for travel and adventure. He now returns to live in a farmer's hovel in the middle of the woods. Much to his family's dismay, Silvio is content with his solitude. But when he attends the wedding of his favorite young cousin, Silvio begins to be drawn back into the complicated life of this small town. As the narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture...
10) Le sagouin
Author
Publisher
Plon
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Français
Description
In this novel, Mauriac deals predominantly with "the remains of the provincial nobility, impoverished and almost ossified by ineffectuality and pride" and the radical village teacher who tried to save them from themselves.
11) Marshlands
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xx, 116 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"André Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a writer who is writing "Marshlands," which is about a reclusive character who lives all alone in a stone tower. The narrator, by contrast, is anything but a recluse: He is an indefatigable social butterfly, flitting about the Paris literary world and...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A historically-based fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who reinvents himself as a middle-class factory owner and family man in France, chronicling his work as an assassin and bureaucrat during the genocide of the Jews.
Author
Series
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.
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Series
Language
English
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness ..." The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were...
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