Le Cabinet des Antiques

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  The Princesse de Clèves

  This new translation of The Princesse de Clèves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.

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  Ninety-Three

  Ninety-three, the last of Victor Hugo's novels, is regarded by many including such diverse critics as Robert Louis Stevenson and André Maurois as his greatest work.
  
  1793, Year Two of the Republic, saw …

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  The Mayor of Casterbridge

  Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover.
  
  In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course o…

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  The Gods Will Have Blood

  Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Blood is the story of Gamelin, an idealistic young artist appointed as a magistrate during the French Revolution. Gamelin's i…

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  Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches

  «Garcin : - Le bronze... (Il le caresse.) Eh bien, voici le moment. Le bronze est là, je le contemple et je com prends que je suis en enfer. Je vous dis que tout était prévu. Ils avaient prévu que je …

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  Ruy Blas

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  The Belly of Paris

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  L'Argent (Les Rougon-Macquart, #18)

  Dix-huitième volume des Rougon-Macquart, L'Argent est le premier grand western financier des temps modernes : bilans falsifiés, connivences politiques, fièvre spéculative, manipulations médiatiques, r…

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  Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

  Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar transla…

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  Le Sagouin

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  Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

  Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentari…

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  The Virginian

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  Erewhon (Erewhon, #1)

  In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' ('nowhere,' scrambled) to satirize beliefs popular in the England of his day. Butler wrote a sequel t…

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  The World of Yesterday

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  The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart #11)

  The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourge…

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  Antony and Cleopatra

  A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary.

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  Agnes Grey

  An alternate cover edition can be found here.
  
  Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and …

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  The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

  A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's streets while musing upon how ridiculous his life is, as well as its distinct lack of meaning or purp…

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  Twenty Years After (The d'Artagnan Romances, #2)

  'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.'
  
  Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.
  
  Two decades have passed since the …

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  La Bête humaine

  Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9782070418015.
  
  « L'essentiel de La Bête humaine, c'est l'instinct de mort dans le personnage principal, la fêlure cérébrale de Jacques Lantier, mécanic…

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