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Counterfeiters
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Andre Gide
Edouard Molinier is a writer working on a novel called THE COUNTERFEITERS. In it, a brash young man named Bernard becomes Edouard's secretary. During the course of the book, Bernard and his friend Olivier, pals from college, undergo a psychosexual education: Olivier emerges as a homosexual, and Bernard as a primarily gay man who idolizes women but ...
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Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
"The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell ...
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Manon Lescaut
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Antoine Francois Prevost, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Translator)
Manon Lescaut is a ground-breaking novel of passion and immorality, and one of the most famous love stories of all time. The Chevalier des Grieux is still a young man, but already life and bitter experience have worn him to a shell. The kindness of a stranger persuades him to reveal his troubles, the story of his helpless and ill-starred love for ...
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Mysteries of Paris
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Eugene Sue
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the pavilion, inhabited only by the notary. A flight of eight or ten steps of disjointed stones, which were moss- grown and time-worn, led to this square pavilion, ...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count
Three great stories offer profound insights into human behavior and motivation. Title story plus "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych." Explanatory footnotes.
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The wisdom of the sands
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Rimas y leyendas
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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Compendio de poemas pertenecientes al periodo del romanticismo en la literatura espaola. En las Leyendas, Bcquer expone sus teoras sobre la poesa y el amor. Sin embargo, fueron sus Rimas las que le aportaron mayor fama, ya que iniciaron la corriente romntica de poesa intimista inspirada en Heine y opuesta a la retrica y ampulosidad de poetas ...
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Southern Mail (Cancelled)
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In Saint Exupery's debut novel, a French aristocrat, after an unhappy romance, finds solace in flying.
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Trois Contes
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Gustave Flaubert
These three stories include "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," in which the hero is rescued from his humanity and its consequences by the grace of God; "A Simple Heart," one of Flaubert's most celebrated stories, in which a poor country woman who leads an exemplary life becomes obsessively devoted to her parrot, even after its death; ...
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San Manuel Bueno, Martir
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Miguel de Unamuno
La novela de Unamuno muestra un espacio espiritual, no descriptivo, en el que se asientan los simbolos clave de la dialectica entre fe y duda: el lago, la montana, la nieve, la villa sumergida, los nombres de los personajes, etc. Esta edicion se basa en la edicion de 1933 con las variantes de la de 1930.
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Selected Short Stories
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Honore de Balzac
Six short-story masterpieces by great French novelist include "An Episode During the Terror," "A Passion in the Desert," "The Revolutionary Conscript," 3 more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages.
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Country Waif
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George Sand, pse
The Country Waif (Francoise le Champi) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these tales have behind them much of the complex experience of her extraordinary life. As Mrs. Zimmerman writes in the introduction, they reflect Sand's ...
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Un Amour de Swann
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Marcel Proust
This outtake from Marcel Proust's SWANN'S WAY is an account of the long, obsessive affair between Swann, the Parisian man about town, and Odette, the cocotte to whom he is enslaved.
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Wind, Sand and Stars
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Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In 1926, the author began flying for the pioneering airline, Latecoere, which opened up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. This book describes his experiences during this period, including numerous aviation adventures and encounters with nomadic peoples.
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Tres Novelas Ejemplares y Un Prologo
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Miguel De Unamuno, Miguel De Unamuno
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The Hatter's Phantoms
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Georges Simenon
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Le Horla
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G De Maupassant
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The Double
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky
There is a great doppelganger tradition in literature, but there is nothing is quite like Dostoevsky's "The Double. "There is a modern quality in this Russian nightmare, where much of Dostoevsky shares qualities with Dickens and Tolstoy, and reminds readers of the work of Kafka or Sartre.
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Boule de Suif
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Guy de Maupassant
One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.
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A school for fools
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Sasha Sokolov, Carl R. Proffer
This debut novel is set at a school for disturbed children outside Moscow.
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Insulted and Injured
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Insulted and Injured" is a tale of a love quadrangle told by a young novelist not unlike Dostoyevsky himself. Vanya, the narrator, has a crush on Natasha, who has gone to live with her new lover, Alyosha. Alyosha is a little dim; he's the son of Prince Valkovsky, a Machiavellian character who's the villain of the tale.
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La Curee
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Emile Zola
mile Zola (1840-1902), n Paris, est un crivain, journaliste et homme public franais, considr comme le chef de file du naturalisme. C'est l'un des romanciers franais les plus universellement populaires, l'un des plus publis et traduits au monde, le plus adapt au cinma et la tlvision. Sa vie et son oeuvre ont t tudis dans le dtail par la science ...
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Courrier Sud
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Le Vice-consul
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Marguerite Duras
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Si Le Grain Ne Meurt: Memoires
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Andre Gide
SI LE GRAIN NE MEURT, Gide's autobiography, tells the story of his writing life, from his very early childhood, when he realized he was a writer, to the mid-1920s, when he was in his 50s.
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