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1	Stranger more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist In this stylistically simple, first-person tale of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." Through Meursault, Camus portrays a man who rejects the beliefs and life styles imposed on him by society. The events that lead to his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Candide more books like this by Voltaire add to wishlist Candide, the quintessential innocent, has been taught by his tutor, Pangloss, that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Gradually, Candide and his beloved, Cunegonde, learn--as they travel through a world peopled with evil characters and various cruelties--the limits of Pangloss's philosophy. Voltaire's great comic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bonjour tristesse more books like this by Francoise Sagan add to wishlist The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But when Raymond decides to marry, he lets ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Story of O more books like this by Pauline Reage add to wishlist This classic work of erotic literature (which was partly modeled on the Marquis de Sade's JUSTINE) follows the sexual adventures of a young photographer who, in an effort to please her lover, agrees to submit to his every whim and desire. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.68! \| first editions \| SVS
5	God's Bits of Wood more books like this by Sembene Ousman, Ousmane, Francis Price (Translator) add to wishlist In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers' perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author's other novels include "Xala" and "Black Docker". see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.28! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Torture garden more books like this by Octave Mirbeau add to wishlist Novel. "This hideously decadent fin-de-siecle novel by the French anarchist Mirbeau has become an underground classic... There are satirical and allegorical dimensions, but it remains irreducibly horrible" (The Sunday Times). First published in 1898, the decadent classic Oscar Wilde recommended as "revolting...a sort of grey adder" is available in ... see all copies from $2.16! new only from $11.30! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Around the World in 80 Days more books like this by Jules Verne add to wishlist Enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg makes a wager that he can travel around the world in only 80 days. With his faithful valet, Passepartout, the two men set off on an adventure with an inept detective, Mr. Fix, close behind. One of the classics from Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Charterhouse of Parma more books like this by Stendhal add to wishlist This epic novel, set in Parma, Italy, during the early 1800's, is about a young aristocrat named Fabrice del Dongo and his attempts to find his place in life. A classic of French literature, written in seven manic weeks, it was revered by Proust, envied by Gide, and deemed "perfection" by Balzac. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Void more books like this by Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair add to wishlist In Perec's extraordinary tour de force--written entirely without the use of the letter "e"--a group of people die or are otherwise eliminated as a result of their inability to "name the unnameable," i.e. to use the letter "e." This novel is a classic text of the Oulipo, the French literary movement that produces works of art using formal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions
10	Belly of Paris more books like this by Emile Zola, Ernest A Vizetelly (Translator) add to wishlist 'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way ... see all copies from $3.66! new only from $7.97! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Diary of a Country Priest more books like this by Georges Bernanos add to wishlist When this novel was first published in 1936, it was awarded the Prix Femina and the Grand Prix for literature by the Academie Francaise. It traces the life of an unnamed priest in a small French village and his bitter struggle against the darkness of corruption, indifference, and sin that afflicts the community. It is one of the most moving ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Exile and the Kingdom more books like this by Albert Camus add to wishlist This volume contains six short stories about moments of epiphany in the midst of ordinary life, including "The Adulterous Woman," "The Renegade," "The Silent Men," "The Guest," "The Artist at Work," and "The Growing Stone." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Manon Lescaut more books like this by Antoine Francois Prevost, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.96! \| SVS
14 view cover	Rock of Tanios more books like this by Amin Maalouf add to wishlist An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo the African. Expertly controlling his multi-faceted narrative with prose of great beauty and power, Maalouf delves into the history of an extraordinary life: that of ... see all copies from $3.55! new only from $11.30!
15 view cover	Gargantua & Pantagruel more books like this by Francois Rabelais add to wishlist The stories of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel are, at heart, like simple folk tales--but folk tales elaborated with an extraordinary range of linguistic and comic devices, from puns and obscenity to insult and satire. They are good-humored assaults on traditional belief and knowledge, a unique blend of expansiveness and down-to-earh comedy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Slowness more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Candide, and other stories more books like this by Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire add to wishlist 'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Town Beyond the Wall more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist A young Jew who survived the Holocaust returns to his hometown to solve the mystery of 'the face in the window,' the symbol of all the bystanders who witnessed the atrocities and did nothing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Les Trois Mousquetaires more books like this by Alexandre Dumas add to wishlist This is a French reader for intermediate through advanced students. "Les Trois Mousquetaires" - Alexander Dumas' colorful tales of D'Artagan and his companions - has been adapted for intermediate students. This reader is softcover, 6" A - 9", and 168 pages in length. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| SVS
20 view cover	The horseman on the roof more books like this by Jean Giono add to wishlist Begun in 1934 and published in France in 1951, this is a tale about the return of an Italian nobleman to his native land, which he was forced to leave after his involvement in a duel. En route, he encounters a cholera epidemic, not to mention corpses, criminals, and rioting townspeople. In addition to being a chronicle about the transformation of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Planet of the Apes more books like this by Pierre Boulle add to wishlist A witty, ironical tale a la Voltaire, full of sharp views about the relationship between men and animals. Boulle depicted a world where humankind has lost its position at the dominant species and apes rule over human savages. The story is set in the year 2500. In the spirit of Gulliver's Travels, a French journalist travels to another planet, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Journey to the Centre of the Earth more books like this by Jules Verne add to wishlist In this novel from Verne's "Extraordinary Journeys" series Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, enter an extinct Icelandic volcano. What they find there is truly extraordinary--a thriving ecosystem, giant shepherds, the corpse of an earlier explorer, and human beings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	L'Enfant Noir more books like this by Camara Laye add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| SVS
24 view cover	Exercises in style more books like this by Raymond Queneau add to wishlist A difficult-to-classify work in which a trivial incident on a bus is described in 99 different styles, reflecting Queneau's idea that literature can come from the most banal and insignificant plot. see all copies from $5.35! new only from $7.37! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Airman's odyssey more books like this by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry add to wishlist This book, which could be called the "essential" guide to Antoine de Saint-Exupery, includes selections that cover his early years in the airmail service through the occupation of France by Germany during World War II. Introduction by Richard Bach. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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