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English
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A favourite of readers for nearly 150 years, this stirring tale of crime, punishment, justice and redemption pulses with life. Hugo's epic novel sweeps readers from the French provinces to the back alleys of Paris, and from the battlefield of Waterloo to the bloody ramparts of Paris during the uprising of 1832.
5) Corydon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Co
Pub. Date
1950
Language
English
Description
First published nearly one hundred years ago, André Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author's assertion that homosexuality is a natural human trait At the time of his death in 1951, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature only four years prior, André Gide was considered one of the most important literary...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
'Lupin follows me everywhere. He is not my shadow. I am his shadow.' - Maurice Leblanc
In his first appearance, Leblanc's charming burglar, Arsène Lupin, finds himself behind bars as the police congratulate themselves on capturing the notorious criminal. But little did they know that Lupin had them exactly where he wanted them...
This book features nine astounding adventures of the gentleman thief. Sparkling with wit and filled with elaborate plots...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Charming, impudent, privileged, emotionally precocious, Vincent de I'Etoile is the same age as the young century when he meets the elegant, asthmatic forty-five-year-old Marcel Proust, and in one week - at literary salons, at the Ritz, in private rooms, in cafes - the striking youth with black hair and green eyes fashions an intimate platonic friendship with Parisian society's most eminent outsider."
"It is 1916. For two years war has ravaged Europe,...
11) Savage nights
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Despite his HIV status, it is hard to feel sympathy for Jean, the 27-year-old hedonistic, bisexual Parisian filmmaker protagonist, because he lacks the basic decency to tell 17-year-old Laura that he is HIV-positive when they first make love. Written in precise yet feverish prose, the novel is a study in massive denial. Jean lives in the sexual fast lane, taking anonymous lovers and having an affair with Sammy, a moody sadomasochistic hooligan who...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography by a man of two cultures, the Spanish one which he calls his night personality, and the French one which he calls his day personality. He describes his youth in Argentina, the discovery of his homosexuality and his emigration to France where he became the literary correspondent for the Paris newspaper, Le Monde.
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