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  Le petit Nicolas: Book 1

  Le petit Nicolas

  by Jacques Sempe, René Goscinny

  This is a special edition of the famous school stories of "Le Petit Nicolas"
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  Delta of Venus

  by Anaïs Nin

  This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possiblility, from a female angle.
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  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as... (more)
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 13

  Germinal

  by Émile Zola

  The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers... (more)
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  Inspector Adamsberg: Book 4

  Have Mercy on Us All

  by Fred Vargas

  In a small Parisian square, the ancient tradition of the town crier continues into modern times. The self-appointed crier, Joss Le Guern, reads out the daily news, snippets of gossip, and lately, ominous messages -- placed in his handmade wooden message box by an anonymous source -- that warn of an imminent onset of the bubonic plague. Concerned, Le Guern brings the puzzling notes to the bumbling but brilliant... (more)
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  The Fascination of Evil

  by Florian Zeller

  When a young French author is invited to Egypt as a guest of Cairo's French Embassy, he anticipates a week of literary discussions and official dinners. He certainly does not foresee the extraordinary events that will lead to murder. His fellow author on the trip, Martin Millet, offends Islamic sensibilities with his views on art and literature, and worse: he searches obsessively for an Egyptian woman willing to... (more)
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  Story of O

  by Pauline Réage

  The classic erotic novel, THE STORY OF O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and pychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed.
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  Once upon the River Love

  by Andreï Makine

  In this brilliant, affecting novel, acclaimed Russian novelist Andrei Makine takes readers to the vast, remote forests of eastern Siberia to tell the story of Alyosha, Utkin, and Samurai, three boys on the verge of manhood. Isolated by history as well as geography, with only the passing lights of the Transsiberian train to assure them of an outside world, the three friends yearn for experiences their small village... (more)
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  The Woman Who Waited: A Novel

  by Andreï Makine

  A moving, utterly captivating love story: Romeo and Juliet as if told by Chekhov or Dostoevsky.In the remote Russian village of Mirnoje a woman waits, as she has waited for almost three decades, for the man she loves to return. Near the end of World War II, 19-year-old Boris Koptek leaves the village to join the Russian army, swearing to the 16-year-old love of his life, Vera, that as soon as he returns they will... (more)
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  Dangerous Liaisons

  by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos’s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded... (more)
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  Pensees

  by Blaise Pascal

  Compiled after his death, Pascals ""pensées"" (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. Pascal analyzes the differences between mathematical and intuitive thinking and attempts to resolve their conflict.
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  Delta of Venus / Little Birds

  by Anaïs Nin

  both Delta of Venus and Little Birds in same edition
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  No Exit and Three Other Plays

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.
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  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas, père

  Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of retribution, inspired by a real-life... (more)
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  Les Misérables

  by Victor Hugo

  An ex-convict struggles for redemption in the punishing world of post-Napoleonic France. Described as the bible of the poor, downtrodden, heartbroken, convicted, and oppressed.
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  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details, shine on every page of this... (more)
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  All Men are Mortal

  by Simone de Beauvoir

  Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort. He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he is immortal. But having been resuscitated into enjoying life again, he soon starts breaking free from her grasp and all notions of mortality.
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  The Plague

  by Albert Camus

  A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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  D'Artagnan Romances: Book 5

  The Man in the Iron Mask

  by Alexandre Dumas, père

  Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask climactically concludes the epic adventures of the three Musketeers: here, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.
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  Candide and Other Stories

  by Voltaire, David Wootton

  Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's "philosophical tales," in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric romance, the other tales in this selection--Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull--do for science fiction,... (more)