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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Arnie Jacobson |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on The Count of Monte Cristo takes you into a rollicking yarn of … |
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I love a lass
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Elizabeth Cadell |
The bright young creatures that inhabit Elizabeth Cadell’s world have never been more charming than in this light-hearted story of doubtful doings in France. Sebastian, a rich young English Bachelor,… |
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Perfume
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Patrick Süskind |
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of sm… |
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La Vendee
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Anthony Trollope |
The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is know… |
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Manon Lescaut
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Abbé Prévost |
Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits … |
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Les Liaisons dangereuses
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
Cet ouvrage, ou plutot ce recueil, que le public trouvera peut-etre encore trop volumineux, ne contient pourtant que le plus petit nombre des lettres qui composaient la totalite de la correspondance … |
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Bone soup
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Cambria Evans |
Retells the classic tale about a traveller, a ghost, who tricks a town's witches, ghouls, and zombies into helping him make soup. |
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Un Crime en Hollande
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Georges Simenon |
Maigret had only a faint idea of what it was all about when he arrived one May afternoon in Delfzijl, a small town squatting on the low coast in the extreme northeast of the Netherlands. |
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La guinguette à deux sous
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Georges Simenon |
During a final visit to the cell of condemned prisoner Jean Lenoir, Maigret picks up a negligently dropped remark about an unsolved-in fact, unreported-murder committed in Paris six years before. It … |
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Un Noël De Maigret
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Georges Simenon |
A selection of short stories featuring Inspector Maigret of the Police Judiciare. Only the title story is set at Christmas-time; the others vary in season and also from Maigret's time on the force a… |
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Le pendu de Saint-Pholien
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Georges Simenon |
First published as *Le Pendu de St Pholien*, this early Simenon records how Maigret unwittingly drove a little man to suicide. You'd have said that Louis Jeunet was a down-at-heel layabout, but he wa… |
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Maigret et l'homme tout seul
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Georges Simenon |
It was August and over half of his inspectors, along with most of Paris, are on holiday. Things are fairly quiet. Then Chief Superintendent Maigret receives a telephone call about the murder of an … |
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Maigret se trompe
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Georges Simenon |
Lulu und Louise - zwei Namen, zwei Lebensentwürfe, eine Person. Lulu hieß die junge Prostituierte aus der Provinz, bis sie eines Tages todkrank ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert wurde. Als junge, sorgenfr… |
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Pietr-le-Letton
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Georges Simenon |
Pietr the Lett had for years been clocked across the European frontiers by Interpol. Who was he, this international swindler with the skin of a chameleon? Was he Oswald Oppenheim, friend of multi-mil… |
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Querelle de Brest
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Jean Genet |
**From Wikipedia:**
***Spoiler alert!***
The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer. When his ship, the Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he vis… |
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Fable for another time =
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
"Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where… |
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The courtier's secret
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Donna Russo Morin |
Set in France in 1682, during the time of Louis XIV, this novel tells the story of Yvette, a courtier in Versailles. After using her secret fencing skills to save one of the king's Musketeers, she co… |
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Sirens and spies
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Janet Taylor Lisle |
No one agrees on the truth about the mysterious violin teacher, Renee Fitch, until she herself tells the definitive story of her life and brings together all the differing views people have of her. |
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The Brooding Frenchman’s Proposal
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Rebecca Winters |
Since Laura arrived at his family's chateau, Raoul Laroche hasn't taken his eyes off the golden-haired beauty. But he thinks she's just another gold digger, out to snare the Laroche family fortune.Th… |
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No Safe Place
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Deborah Ellis |
Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award
Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his … |
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