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Molière's classic tale of the Seducer of Seville, an uproariously funny story flawlessly translated by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
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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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Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies
Si l'on devait citer le poète qui a exercé l'influence la plus profonde sur la poésie du début du XXe siècle, il faudrait nommer Rimbaud. Avec plus de hardiesse encore que Baudelaire, il a étendu le c…
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Chéri
Léa de Lonval is an aging courtesan, a once famous beauty facing the end of her sexual career. She is also facing the end of her most intense love affair, with Fred Peloux--known as Chéri--a playboy h…
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Le Malade imaginaire
Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s'agit d'une comédie-ballet en trois actes.
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The Wild Ass's Skin
The Wild Ass's Skin is Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaël de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's sk…
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La délicatesse
« François pensa : si elle commande un déca, je me lève et je m’en vais. C’est la boisson la moins
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Les Mains libres
Ce recueil est un modèle de complicité artistique, les deux auteurs engendrant une oeuvre qui exige que les dessins de l'un et les poèmes de l'autre demeurent indissociables. Renversant l'ordre habitu…
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The Seagull
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation.
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Daphnis and Chloe
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside…
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Nadja
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.
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