The House of Scorta By Laurent Gaudé

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Title	:	The House of Scorta
Author	:	Laurent Gaudé
ISBN	:	1596920556
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	289

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Winner of the Prix Goncourt, Laurent Gaud s The House of Scorta follows five generations of the infamous Scorta family as they struggle to survive in a small southern Italian village While their scandalous history confronts them at every turn, they are blessed with an imposing pride and a relentless faith in their own power The lyrical narrative is punctuated by the con Winner of the Prix Goncourt, Laurent Gaud s The House of Scorta follows five generations of the infamous Scorta family as they struggle t...

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Andromaque By Jean Racine

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Title	:	Andromaque
Author	:	Jean Racine
ISBN	:	2038716803
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	223

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Oreste aime Hermione, qui aime Pyrrhus, qui aime Andromaque, qui aime Hector, qui est mort Pris dans une cha ne amoureuse sans issue, comment pourraient ils s en sortir De fait, quand le rideau s ouvre, tous les l ments de l tau tragique sont d j pr ts se refermer sur les personnages prisonniers de leurs passions, leur perte est in luctable Racine orchestre av Oreste aime Hermione, qui aime Pyrrhus, qui aime Andromaque, qui aime Hector, qui est mort Pris dans une cha ne amoureuse sans issue, comment pourr...

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The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14) By Émile Zola

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Title	:	The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14)
Author	:	Émile Zola
ISBN	:	0192839632
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	464

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The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola s Rougon Macquart series It provides a unique insight into Zola s career as a writer The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces t...

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Les Tragiques By Agrippa d'Aubigné

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Title	:	Les Tragiques
Author	:	Agrippa d'Aubigné
ISBN	:	2070737241
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	568

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Ceci est un livre qui br le L avertissement est clairement formul voici, nous dit l avis aux lecteurs , le larcin de Prom th e, le h ros tragique qui, un jour, vola le feu aux dieux et le r v la aux hommes Ce livre est un feu qui couvait, tant qu il tait cach , et qui, maintenant qu il est d couvert, vol son auteur et r pandu travers le monde, s embrase la l Ceci est un livre qui br le L avertissement est clairement formul voici, nous dit l avis aux lecteurs , le larcin de Prom th e, le h ros tr...

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Treasured Dreams By Jackie Williams

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Title	:	Treasured Dreams
Author	:	Jackie Williams
ISBN	:
Format	:	Kindle Edition
Number of Pages	:	273

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Is it possible that a recurring dream could uncover the five year old mystery of why Sophie s parents died in an horrific car crash while on holiday in France Haunted by the elusive visions of treasures, Princes and gentle kisses since the fateful day when she was orphaned, eighteen year old Sophie is shocked to discover that she now owns the property where all her dreams Is it possible that a recurring dream could uncover the five year old mystery of why Sophie s parents died in an horrific car crash whi...

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Le Voleur d'ombres By Marc Levy

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Title	:	Le Voleur d'ombres
Author	:	Marc Levy
ISBN	:	2221113128
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	274

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Maintenant, assieds toi, il faut que l on parle, a dit l ombre.Je me suis assis en tailleur sur le sol Tu as un pouvoir tr s rare, il faut que tu acceptes de t en servir, m me s il te fait peur Pour quoi faire Trouve pour ceux dont tu d robes l ombre cette petite lumi re qui clairera leur vie, un morceau de leur m moire cach e, c est tout ce que nous te demandons Maintenant, assieds toi, il faut que l on parle, a dit l ombre.Je me suis assis en tailleur sur le sol Tu as un pouvoir tr s rare, il ...

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Les Paysans By Honoré de Balzac

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Title	:	Les Paysans
Author	:	Honoré de Balzac
ISBN	:	2070366758
Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages	:	495

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Comment, depuis trente ans que le p re Rigou vous suce la moelle de vos os, vous n avez pas core vu que les bourgeois seront pires que les seigneurs Les bourgeois et le gouvernement, c est tout un Qu qu ils deviendraient si nous tions tous riches Laboureraient ils leurs champs, feraient ils la moisson Il leur faut des malheureux Faut tout de m me ch Comment, depuis trente ans que le p re Rigou vous suce la moelle de vos os, vous n avez pas core vu que les bourgeois seront pires que les seigneurs...

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The Thief's Journal By Jean Genet

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Title	:	The Thief's Journal
Author	:	Jean Genet
ISBN	:	0802130143
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	268

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The Thief s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet s most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France s Black Prince of Letters here reconstructs his early adult years time he spent as a petty criminal and vagab The Thief s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet s most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through t...

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Someone I Loved (Je l'aimais) By Anna Gavalda

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Title	:	Someone I Loved (Je l'aimais)
Author	:	Anna Gavalda
ISBN	:	1594480419
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	164

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Anna Gavalda has been hailed as an author graced with the Gallic virtues of dry wit and almost involuntary elegance Vogue Now, the prize winning author of I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere returns with a novel of an abandoned wife, and the profound relationship that unfolds between her and her father in law....

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Rood en zwart By Stendhal

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Title	:	Rood en zwart
Author	:	Stendhal
ISBN	:
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	485

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Aan de vooravond van de revolutie van 1830, in het benepen klimaat van de Restauratie waarin de verkalkte Franse aristocratie krampachtig haar oude rechten probeert terug te winnen, werkt de ambitieuze Julien Sorel aan een carri re die hem sociaal doet stijgen Voor iemand uit de lagere burgerij is dat een bijna onmogelijke opgave, maar met zijn superieure intelligentie en Aan de vooravond van de revolutie van 1830, in het benepen klimaat van de Restauratie waarin de verkalkte Franse aristocratie krampacht...

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A Simple Heart By Gustave Flaubert

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Title	:	A Simple Heart
Author	:	Gustave Flaubert
ISBN	:	0974607886
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	62

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Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature s greatest writers In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers Nonet...

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Encyclopedie 1 By Denis Diderot

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Title	:	Encyclopedie 1
Author	:	Denis Diderot
ISBN	:	2080704265
Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages	:	339

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Furono necessari ventuno anni per comporre l Enciclopedia, dal 1751 al 1772 L opera completa consta di ventotto volumi per un totale di settantaduemila articoli scritti da un numero mai documentato di contributori e dalle firme pi prestigiose della cultura dei Lumi Questa antologia a cura di Paolo Casini, che firma anche l introduzione, rende disponibile una campionatur Furono necessari ventuno anni per comporre l Enciclopedia, dal 1751 al 1772 L opera completa consta di ventotto volumi per un t...

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Phaedra By Jean Racine

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Title	:	Phaedra
Author	:	Jean Racine
ISBN	:	015675780X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	132

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Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human scale characters and actions Introduction by Richard Wilbur Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is reb...

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Funeral Rites By Jean Genet

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Title	:	Funeral Rites
Author	:	Jean Genet
ISBN	:	0802130879
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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Genet s sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death....

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La Vie mode d'emploi By Georges Perec

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Title	:	La Vie mode d'emploi
Author	:	Georges Perec
ISBN	:	2253023906
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	641

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La Vie mode d emploi est un livre extraordinaire, d une importance capitale non seulement dans la cr ation de l auteur, mais dans notre litt rature, par son ampleur, son organisation, la richesse de ses informations, la cocasserie de ses inventions, par l ironie qui le travaille de bout en bout sans en chasser la tendresse, par sa forme d art enfin un r alisme baroque qu La Vie mode d emploi est un livre extraordinaire, d une importance capitale non seulement dans la cr ation de l...

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Manon Lescaut By Abbé Prévost

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Title	:	Manon Lescaut
Author	:	Abbé Prévost
ISBN	:
Format	:	Kindle Edition
Number of Pages	:	208

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The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesitate for a moment So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misalliance, which moves from early eighteenth century Paris with its theatres, assemblies, and gaming houses via prison and deportation The sweetness of her glance, or rather my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin, did not allow me to hesi...

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Tartarin of Tarascon By Alphonse Daudet

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Title	:	Tartarin of Tarascon
Author	:	Alphonse Daudet
ISBN	:	1406947288
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	82

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In the first place you must know that everybody is shooting mad in these parts, from the greatest to the least The chase is the local craze, and so it has ever been since the mythological times when the Tarasque, as the county dragon was called, flourished himself and his tail in the town marshes, and entertained shooting parties got up against him So you see the passion In the first place you must know that everybody is shooting mad in these parts, from the greatest to the least The chase is the local cr...

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