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 Anatole
France:
The Gods Are Athirst (Les dieux ont soif)
France's novel about the last phase of the
French Revolution, the "terror" of Robespierre, Danton and Marat.
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 Edmond
and Jules de
Goncourt: Germinie Lacerteux
The Fathers of the Prix Goncourt with their
most famous naturalistic novel, based in Paris. |
 André
:
Strait
is the Gate (La Porte étroite)
A novel about the failure of love
in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism.
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 Anatole
:
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Bonnard, a highly esteemed scholar,
encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient
document that takes him into his own life history.
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 Romain
:
Pierre and Luce (novella)
Paris, 1918: Amidst
the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly
develops between two young Parisians.
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 Romain ROLLAND:
Colas Breugnon.
A Burgundian Story (movel)
- "Prometheus Illbound"
is one of the most characteristic books of André Gide: a work of
pure intelectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of the author has full
play.
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 Anatole
:
Penguin Island
Penguin Island (1908) has been called
"the best social satire ever written" (Toni Ungerer).
The story takes place in Antarctica, where a fictional penguin population
mirrors the foibles of human beings.
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 Gustave
:
Salammbo (Salambo)
The action of this classic French novel
takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries
in the employ of Carthage in the 3rd century BC.
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 André : Prometheus
Illbound (Le Prométhée mal enchaîné) - "Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. Colas Breugnon is the jovial Burgundian, the lusty wood-carver, the practical joker always fond of his glass, the droll fellow...
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 Honore
de:
Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)
Among all the novels of Balzac,
none depicts so penetratingly the small-mindedness, avarice and envy of
the provincial lower middle classes.
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Jules
:
An Antarctic Mystery (The
Sphinx of the Ice Fields)
Adventures à la Jules
Verne, this time on the ocean! |
 André et al.: Recollections
of Oscar Wilde
Nobel Prize winner André Gide, Ernest
La Jeunesse and Franz Blei present their "Recollections" of
the last years of Oscar Wilde.
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 Honore
de:
Maitre
Cornelius
Balzac's
famous medieval love story, in which he turns King Louis XI of France
into a detective.
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 Victor
:
The
Man Who Laughs (By Order of the King)
A novel, originally
published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Although
among Hugo's more obscure works, it was adapted into a popular 1928 film,
directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova.
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 Victor : History of a Crime (The Testimony of an Eye-Witness)
Victor Hugo's docu-novel
about Napolen III ("Napoleon le petit").
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