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Stranger
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Albert Camus
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 ...
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Candide
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Voltaire
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 ...
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Bonjour tristesse
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Francoise Sagan
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 ...
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Story of O
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Pauline Reage
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.
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God's Bits of Wood
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Sembene Ousman, Ousmane, Francis Price (Translator)
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".
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Torture garden
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Octave Mirbeau
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 ...
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Around the World in 80 Days
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Jules Verne
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.
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The Charterhouse of Parma
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Stendhal
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.
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Void
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Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair
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 ...
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Belly of Paris
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Emile Zola, Ernest A Vizetelly (Translator)
'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 ...
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The Diary of a Country Priest
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Georges Bernanos
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 ...
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Exile and the Kingdom
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Albert Camus
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."
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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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Rock of Tanios
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Amin Maalouf
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 ...
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Gargantua & Pantagruel
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Francois Rabelais
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 ...
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Slowness
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Milan Kundera
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.
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Candide, and other stories
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Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
'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 ...
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Town Beyond the Wall
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Elie Wiesel
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.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires
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Alexandre Dumas
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.
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The horseman on the roof
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Jean Giono
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 ...
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Planet of the Apes
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Pierre Boulle
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, ...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Jules Verne
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.
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L'Enfant Noir
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Camara Laye
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Exercises in style
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Raymond Queneau
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.
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Airman's odyssey
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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.
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