The Chouans

Author	Émile Zola
ISBN	2253003662

A la fin d’une chasse, pendant la curée, les chiens dévorent les entrailles de la bête tuée. Pour le jeune Zola, qui déteste son époque, c’est le cœur de Paris, entaillé par les larges avenues de Napoléon III, que des spéculateurs véreux s’arrachent. Ce deuxième volume des Rougon-Macquart,...

Author	Stendhal
ISBN	0679783180

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of European...

Author	Madame de La Fayette
ISBN	0192837265

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Well, I have to say the moment I saw this book I thought that it would be about Anne of Cleves a.k.a. the luckiest wife of Henry VIII.

I never heard about the book The Princess of Clèves...

Author	Jean Racine
ISBN	2070409023

Fin d’une guerre où l’on crie malheur aux vaincus. Prise d’otages. Chantage sur un enfant. Complot. Manipulation. Passions trahies et noyées dans le sang. Fanatisme. Folie. Bain de sang final. Des horreurs d’aujourd’hui ? Non. C’est le résumé de la tragédie Andromaque, sur les...

Author	Yasmina Reza
ISBN	0571190146

Friendship and Honesty

Think of your oldest, closest friends: the shared experiences and interests that your friendship is rooted in, and the unspoken understanding, support, and private jokes that nurture it. These friends are the background of your life, but the foreground,...

Author

James Kelman

One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's shoes and trying to remember his two-day drinking binge. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell, badly beaten and, he slowly discovers, completely blind. And things get worse:...

Author	Georges Arnaud
ISBN	2266128590

Las Piedras, port d'échouage. Ils sont des centaines, venus d'on ne sait où, oublier sous les tropiques l'impasse de leur existence. Pour une poignée de dollars, ces sans-grade sont prêts à tout. Prêts à affronter des kilomètres de piste impraticables, au volant d'un camion délabré, pour...

Author	Leo Tolstoy
ISBN	1406952907

"Father Sergius" (Russian: Отец Сергий, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.

For some weeks Father Sergius had been living with one persistent thought: whether he was right in accepting the...