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Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the ... More

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Abe Ravelstein is a famously iconoclastic university professor who has died from AIDS; his close friend Chick is writing a memoir about him. As the ... More

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Three women: Dodo, Val, and Charley, orphaned at birth, are bound by a unique friendship spanning two continents, and two world wars. Dodo, "born to ... More

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The "New York Times"-bestselling authors of "Celebutantes" return with a dazzling new novel set among the star-studded crowds of the Cannes Film ... More

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"Swann's Way", the first book in Proust's monumental "Remembrance of Things Past", introduces such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, ... More

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'People talk about love at first sight, about the way that men and women fall for each other immediately, but there is also such a thing as ... More

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Haunting readers since its first publication in 1911, the classic story of the disfigured Erik who haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly trains ... More

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A young artist arrives in the city, hoping to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance, he meets and falls in love with Prudence, a forensic ... More

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Set in pre-war Paris, Julie de Carneilhan tells of the complex relationship between proud but impoverished Julie and her former husband, the Comte d ... More

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La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of ... More

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Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between a German-born apprentice painter and the marquis de Clemengis, a ... More

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"As an entomologist of the ways of love, [Dorner] has a rare precision . . . we devour her book, realizing that it shows the building and the ... More

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Marcel's obsessive love for Albertine makes her virtually a captive in his Paris apartment. Features music by Ciurlionis, Breton, Schumann, and ... More

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Albertine has finally escaped her 'imprisonment' from Marcel's Paris apartment... Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect her flight has ... More

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Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born ... More

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Close your eyes and let this powerful music transport you to another time and place. Les Miserables has captivated generations, but with this ... More

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Fiction. Music.This is the one and only novel by the 20th century provocateur of French pop music and film - the legendary Serge Gainsbourg. Evguenie ... More

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The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to ... More

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One of the most important examples of the "naturalist" style and school, this work depicts working-class life in the slums of Paris. When it was ... More

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In Time Regained, the final volume of Remembrance of Things Past, as the various threads that have emerged through the vast novel are brought ... More

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The tragic and haunting story of Dick Diver, a young psychiatrist whose career is thwarted and his genius gradually numbed as a result of his ... More

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Why does Great-Aunt Louise wreck the apartment of her sister Suzanne? What are the documents she is looking for, and do they really concern a thirty ... More

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In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela together through the common ... More

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