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1	Mysterious Island more books like this by Jules Verne add to wishlist Five Union prisoners of war escape in a balloon from Richmond, Virginia, and land on an uninhabited island, where they begin to reconstruct society as they knew it. This is one of the novels is Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Prayers from the Ark more books like this by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold add to wishlist These prayers were first published, in French, in 1947 by a private press. Rumer Godden discovered a volume of them and translated them into English. The poem-prayers are at once reverent, humorous, realistic and concise. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
3	Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts more books like this by Samuel Beckett add to wishlist see all copies from $3.92! new only from $27.76! \| first editions
4	Prayers from the Ark more books like this by Gasztol Carmen Bernos De, Carmen B De Gasztold, Carmen Bernos De Gasztold add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	Les Liaisons Dangereuses more books like this by Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderl Laclos add to wishlist The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.51! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Zadig L'Ingenu more books like this by Voltaire, John Butt (Introduction by) add to wishlist One of Voltaire's earliest tales, "Zadig" is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $7.62! \| first editions
7	Modern French Theatre more books like this by Michael Benedikt (Editor), George E Wellwarth (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.98! first editions
8	Aphrodite more books like this by Pierre Louys add to wishlist The Drums of War takes place in Alexandria in the 1st Century BC where Demetrios, a renowned artist falls in love with a courtesan, Chrysis. She asks him to prove his love to her by committing three crimes and Demetrios agrees. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Against Nature: 4a New Translation of a Rebours' more books like this by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert Baldick (Translator) add to wishlist Huysmans tells the story of a jaded count who tries to revive his senses by means of increasingly more extravagant intoxications. When A REBOURS appeared in 1884, Huysmans wrote, it "fell like an aerolite into the literary fairground, to be received with mingled amazement and indignation; the Press completely lost their heads; such an outburst of ... see all copies from $1.99!
10	Bel-Ami more books like this by Guy de Maupassant add to wishlist Georges Duroy comes to Paris as a provincial young man determined to become a great success in journalism. Maupassant shows the inevitable hypocrisy and corrupting effects of this quest and the shameless mediocrity that pervades the highest levels of Paris society, especially as Duroy's rise owes more to his looks and his ability to seduce the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, Part One more books like this by Marion Ayton Crawford (Translator), Honore de Balzac add to wishlist Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.38! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Therese Raquin: 5 more books like this by Emile Zola, Leonard W Tancock (Translator) add to wishlist 'Therese Raquin' is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere 'human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. 'Therese Raquin' stands ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.26! \| SVS
13	Bedside book of famous French stories more books like this by Robert Newton Linscott, Belle Becker add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
14	Little Red Riding Hood more books like this by Charles Perrault add to wishlist Not only is grandmother eaten up in this Perrault version, but so is Little Red Riding Hood. Illustrated with photographs placing the tale in an urban setting. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
15	A Woman's Life more books like this by Guy de Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, H N P Sloman (Introduction by) add to wishlist In his first full-length novel, published in 1883, Maupassant follows the life of Jeanne, a member of the old Normandy gentry, from her departure from a convent in 1819 to middle age in 1855. In her family life she is surrounded on all sides by avarice, treachery, cruelty, and greed, as her husband turns out to be a lascivious boor and her son a ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16	One Generation After more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	Cinderella: Or, the Little Glass Slipper more books like this by Charles Perrault add to wishlist In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper. see all copies from $2.13! first editions \| SVS
18	Dangerous acquaintances more books like this by Choderlos de Laclos add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19	Dangerous Acquaintances more books like this by Richard Aldington (Translator), Pierre-Ambroise De Laclos, Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderl Laclos add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! first editions
20	Great French detective stories more books like this by T. J. Hale add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
21	Une saison en enfer more books like this by Arthur Rimbaud add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.75! \| first editions
22 view cover	Dramacontemporary: France more books like this by Professor Philippa Wehle (Editor) add to wishlist Contents: Marguerite Duras, Véra Baxter or The Atlantic Beaches ? Nathalie Sarraute, Over Nothing at All ? Michel Vinaver, Chamber Theatre: Two Plays ? Dissident, Goes without Saying ? Nina, It's Different ? Gildas Bourdet, The Gas Station ? Enzo Cormann, Exiles ? Jean-Claude Grumberg, The Workroom see all copies from $4.22! new only from $13.17! \| SVS
23 view cover	Paul and Virginia more books like this by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre add to wishlist In introducing to the Public the present edition of this well known and affecting Tale, -- the _chef d'oeuvre_ of its gifted author, the Publishers take occasion to say, that it affords them no little gratification, to apprise the numerous admirers of "Paul and Virginia," that the _entire_ work of St. Pierre is now presented to them. All the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Around the world in eighty days ; [and], From the earth to the moon direct ; [and], 20,000 leagues under the sea more books like this by Jules Verne add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
25	Lacombe Lucien more books like this by Louis Malle, Patrick Modiano add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $35.61! \| first editions

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