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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Un Noël De Maigret Un Noël De Maigret 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… OL1242788W
Notre-Dame de Paris Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy … OL15202030W
Shadow Shadow Blaise Cendrars,Marcia Brown Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller. OL1672318W
El Mendigo y el millonario El Mendigo y el millonario Benoit Saint Girons Quien es el mendigo, que parece manipular los destinos de nuestros dos protagonistas, el joven Samuel y el rico Jean-Jacques? De donde proviene su sabiduria? Y por que el sistema le teme tanto? Este … OL17691912W
Against the grain Against the grain Huysmans, Joris Karl (1848-1907) . Zaidenberg, Arthur (1908-1990) Illus.,John Howard,Joris-Karl Huysmans A rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English, is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Anti-hero Jean Des Esseintes despises the bourgeois society he lives in and withdraws into the aest… OL2239477W
Juan, el guardian de historias Juan, el guardian de historias Christian Jolibois The little chickens are very sad when the old mouse that tells them bedtime stories decides to retire, and they set out to find a replacement. OL29239780W
Prières dans l'arche Prières dans l'arche Carmen Bernos de Gasztold An illustrated collection of poems, each a prayer by one of the animals in Noah's ark. OL3383570W
Le Comte de Monte Cristo Le Comte de Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm OL36287W
Fables Fables Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several v… OL50348W
Mithridate Mithridate Jean Racine Xiphares. On nous faisoit, Arbate, un fidele rapport : Rome en effet triomphe, et Mithridate est mort. Les Romains, vers l'Euphrate, ont attaque mon pere, et trompe dans la nuit sa prudence ordinaire… OL741408W
Bouvard et Pécuchet Bouvard et Pécuchet Gustave Flaubert Comme il faisait une chaleur de 33 degres, le boulevard Bourdon se trouvait absolument desert. Plus bas le canal Saint-Martin, ferme par les deux ecluses etalait en ligne droite son eau couleur d'enc… OL893601W
L'Éducation sentimentale L'Éducation sentimentale Gustave Flaubert Le 15 septembre 1840, vers six heures du matin, la Ville-de-Montereau , pres de partir, fumait a gros tourbillons devant le quai Saint-Bernard. Des gens arrivaient hors d'haleine ; des barriques, des… OL893802W