Contes de Charles Perrault

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  Antigone

  Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of …

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  Fables

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  The Social Contract

  "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."
  
  These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view …

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  Phèdre

  Andromacha
  Brytanik
  Berenika
  Ifigenia
  Fedra

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  The Oldest Orphan

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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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  Ruy Blas

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  Petit pays

  Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique…

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  Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

  "...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?"
  
  Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggle…

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  The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda

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  Alcools

  Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism," Guillaume Apollin…

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  The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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  Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

  The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventiona…

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  Happening

  In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she c…

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  Les Fleurs du Mal

  Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs du…

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  Les Bonnes

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  The Marrow Thieves

  In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Ind…

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  Candide

  Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a …

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  Manon Lescaut

  "'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate for a moment...'" "So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tal…

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  Max

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