French Literature
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Marcel
Aymé
(1902 - 1967) 
Le passe-muraille
{The Man Who Walked Through Walls}
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Les contes du chat perché
{The Wonderful Farm}
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Travelingue
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La rue sans nom
{The Street Without a Name}
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Le boeuf clandestin
{The Clandestine Beef}
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Honoré de
Balzac
(1799 - 1850)
Eugénie Grandet
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Père Goriot
{Old Goriot}
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Illusions perdues
{Lost Illusions}
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La recherche de l'absolu
{The Quest of the Absolute}
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La peau de chagrin
{The Wild Ass' Skin}
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Charles
Baudelaire
(1821 -1867)
Les fleur du mal
{The Flowers of Evil}
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Beaumarchais
(1732 - 1799)
Le barbier de Séville
{Barber of Seville}
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Le mariage de Figaro
{Marriage of Figaro}
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)
L'invité
{She Came To Stay}
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Les Mandarins
{The Mandarins}
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La cérémonie des adieux
{A Farewell To Sartre}
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 - 1655)
L'autre monde, ou, les états et empires de la lune
{Other Worlds: the comical history of the states and
empires of the moon and sun}
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Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927
L'évolution créatrice
{Creative Evolution}
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Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience
{Time and Free Will}
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Albert
Camus
(1913 - 1960) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957
La peste
{Plague}
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L'étranger
{The Outsider / The Stranger}
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La chute
{The Fall}
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L'exil et le royaume
{Exile and the Kingdom}
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894 - 1961)
Voyage au bout de la nuit
{Journey to the End of the Night}
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Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
René
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Mémoires d'outre-tombe
{Memoir - Beyond the Tomb}
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)
La maison de Claudine, C. en ménage, C. à l'école, à Paris etc.
{The Claudine Novels}
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La chatte
{The Cat}
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Gigi
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La vagabond
{Vagabond}
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Pierre
Corneille
(1606 - 1684)
Le Cid
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Horace
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Cinna
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Polyeucte
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L'illusion comique
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Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)
Tartarin de Tarascon
{Tartarin de Tarascon}
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Lettres de mon moulin
{Letters from My Mill}
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Le Petit Chose
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Alexandre
Dumas
Père (1802 - 1870)
Les trois Mousquetaires
{The Three Musketeers}
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Le comte de Monte-Cristo
{The Count of Monte-Cristo}
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La dame de Monsoreau
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La tulipe noire
{The Black Tulip}
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Le roman du masque de fer
{The Man in the Iron Mask}
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Alexandre
Dumas
Fils (1824 - 1895)
La Dame Aux Camélias
{Camille / The Lady of the Camellias}
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Gustave
Flaubert
(1821 - 1880)
Madame Bovary
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Salammbô
{Salambo}
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L'éducation sentimentale
{Sentimental Education}
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Anatole France (1844 - 1924) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1921
Le crime de Sylvestre Bonnard
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La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque
{At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque}
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Les Opinions de Jérome Coignard
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Thaïs
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Le lys rouge
{The Red Lily}
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L'histoire contemporaine
{Contemporary History} 4 Volumes
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L'orme du mail
{The Elm-Tree on the Mall}
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Le mannequin d'osier
{The Wicker Work Woman}
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L'anneau d'améthyste
{The Amethyst Ring}
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Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
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Crainquebille
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Les dieux ont soif
{The Gods Are Athirst / The Gods Will Have Blood}
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L'île des pingouins
{Penguin Island}
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Le petit Pierre
{Little Pierre}
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La vie en fleur
{The Bloom of Life}
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Le livre de mon ami
{My Friend's Book}
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Roger Martin du Gard (1881 - 1958) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1937
Les Thibault
{The Thibaults} 6 Volumes
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Le cahier gris
{The Thibaults Vol. 1}
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Le pénitencier
{The Thibaults Vol. 2}
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La belle saison
{The Thibaults Vol. 3}
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La consultation
{The Thibaults Vol. 4}
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La Sorellina
{The Thibaults Vol. 5}
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La mort du père
{The Thibaults Vol. 6}
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L'été
{Summer} 3 Volumes
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Vielle France
{The Postman}
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Un taciturne
{A Silent Man}
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Le testament du père Leleu
{Old Leleu's Will}
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La Gonfle
{The Swelling}
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Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort
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André Paul Guillaume
Gide
(1869 - 1951) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1947
Amyntas
{Amyntas}
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L'immoraliste
{The Immoralist}
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Isabelle
{Isabelle}
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La symphonie pastorale
{The Pastoral Symphony}
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L'école des femmes / Robert / Genevieve
{The School for Wives / Robert / Genevieve}
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Thésée
{Theseus}
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Les faux-monnayeurs
{The Counterfeiters}
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Victor
Hugo
(1802 - 1885)
Notre-Dame de Paris
{Hunchback of Notre-Dame / Notre-dame of Paris}
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Les Misérables
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Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803)
Les liaisons dangereuses
{Dangerous Liaisons}
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Jean de
La Fontaine
(1621 - 1695)
Les Fables
{Fables}
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André Malraux (1901 - 1976)
La condition humaine
{Man's Fate / Man's Estate}
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Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)
Boule-de-suif et autres contes
{Selected Short Stories / Boule-de-suif and Other Short Stories}
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François Mauriac (1885 - 1970) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1952
Les mains jointes
{Joined Hands}
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L'enfant chargé de chaînes
{Young Man in Chains}
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La robe prétexte
{The Stuff of Youth}
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Le baiser au l'épreux
{The Kiss to the Leper}
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Le désert de l'amour
{The Desert of Love}
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Thérèse Desqueyroux
{Thérèse}
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{The Mask of Innocence}
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Le noeud de vipères
{The Vipres' Tangle}
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Le mystère Frontenac
{The Frontenac Mystery}
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Les chemins de la mer
{The Unknown Sea}
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La Pharisienne
{A Woman of the Pharisees}
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Frédéric Mistral (1830 - 1914) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1904
Mirèio
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Mireille
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Jean Baptiste
Molière
(1622 - 1673)
Le misanthrope
{The Misanthrope}
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L'avare
{The Miser}
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Le malade imaginaire
{The Hypochondriac / The Imaginary Invalid}
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L'école des femmes
{School for Wives}
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Tartuffe
{Le Tartuffe}
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Les femmes savantes
{The Learned Ladies}
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Don Juan
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Le bourgeois gentilhomme
{The Bourgeois Gentleman}
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Le medecin malgre lui
{Doctor in Spite of Himself}
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Amphitryon
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George Dandin
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Essais
{Complete Essays}
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Alfred de
Musset
(1810 - 1857)
La nuit Vénitienne
{A Venetian Night}
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La coupe et les lèvres
{The Cup and the Lip}
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À quoi révent les jeunes filles
{Of What Young Maidens Dream}
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Les caprices de Marianne
{The Follies of Marianne}
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Gamiani
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Rolla
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Fantasio
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
{No Trifling with Love}
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Lorenzaccio
{Lorenzo}
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Le chandelier
{The Candle-Stick}
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Barberine
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La confession d'un enfant du siècle
{Confession of a Child of the Century}
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Il ne faut jurer de rien
{You Can't Be Sure of Anything}
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Un caprice
{A Caprice}
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Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée
{The Door Must Be either Open or Shut}
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L'habit vert
{The Green Coat}
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On ne saurait penser à tout
{You Can't Think of Everything}
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L'âne et le ruisseau
{The Donkey and the Stream}
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Comédies et proverbes
{Comedy and Proverbs}
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Marcel Pagnol (1895 - 1974)
La Gloire de mon père (Souvenirs d'enfance)
{My Father's Glory}
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Le château de ma mère (Souvenirs d'enfance)
{My Mother's Castle}
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Le temps des secrets (Souvenirs d'enfance)
{The Time of Secrets}
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Marius
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Fanny
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Cesar
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Jean de Florette
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Manon des sources
{Manon of the Spring}
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Georges
Perec
(1936 - 1982)
La Vie mode d'emploi
{Life: A User's Manual}
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La Disparition
{A Void}
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W ou Le Souvenir d'enfance
{W, or the Memory of a Childhood}
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Espèces d'espaces
{Species of Spaces}
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Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante
{Things: A Story of the Sixties}
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Homme Qui Dort
{A Man Asleep}
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Saint-John Perse (1887 - 1975) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1960
Éloges
{Éloges, and Other Poems}
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Anabase
{Anabasis, translated by T. S. Eliot}
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Exile
{Exile, and Other Poems}
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Vents
{Winds}
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Amers
{Seamarks}
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Chronique
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Oiseaux
{Birds}
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Jacques
Prévert
(1900 - )
Paroles
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Abbé Prévost (1697 - 1763)
Manon Lescaut
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
A la recherche du temps perdu
{ In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past } :
Volume I ~ Du côté de chez Swann
{Swann's Way}
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Volume II ~ A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
{Within a Budding Grove}
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Volume III ~ Le côté de Guermantes
{The Guermantes Way}
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Volume IV ~ Sodome et Gomorrhe
{Sodom and Gomorrah}
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Volume V ~ La prisonnière
{The Captive}
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Volume VI ~ La fugitive (Albertine disparue)
{The Fugitive (The Sweet Cheat Gone)}
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Volume VII ~ Le temps retrouvé
{Time Regained}
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Sully Prudhomme (1839 - 1907) First Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901
Stances et poemes (incl. Le vase brisé
{The Broken Vase})
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Les épreuves
{Trials}
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Les solitudes
{Solitude}
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La Justice
{Justice}
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Le Bonheur
{Happiness}
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Raymond Queneau (1903 - 1976)
Le Chiendent (1933)
{The bark-tree}
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Les Derniers jours (1936)
{The last days}
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Odile (1937)
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Les Enfants du Limon (1938)
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Un Rude hiver (1939)
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Pierrot mon ami (1942)
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Loin de Rueil (1944)
{The skin of dreams}
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On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes (1947)
{We always treat women too well}
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Saint-Glinglin (1948)
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Le Journal intime de Sally Mara (1950)
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Le Dimanche de la vie (1952)
{The Sunday of life}
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Zazie dans le métro (1959)
{Zazie in the metro}
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Les Fleurs bleues (1965)
{Between blue and blue}
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Le Vol d'Icare (1968)
{The flight of Icarus}
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Jean-Baptiste
Racine
(1639 - 1699)
Bajazet
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Andromaque
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Arthur
Rimbaud
(1854 - 1891)
Une saison en enfer
{Season in Hell}
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Le bateau ivre
{Drunken Boat}
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Derniers Vers
{Last Verses}
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La chasse spirituelle
{The Spiritual Hunt}
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Illuminations
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Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1915
Les tragédies de la foi (incl. Aërt)
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Le théâtre de la révolution (incl. Dreyfus Affair, Les coups
{The Wolves}, Danton)
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Jean-Christophe (10 volumes)
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Colas Breugnon
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L'âme-enchantée (7 volumes)
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Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
(1900 - 1944)
Le petit prince
{The Little Prince}
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Vol de nuit
{Night Flight}
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George Sand (1804 - 1876)
Indiana
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Jean Paul
Sartre
(1905 - 1980) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1964
La nausée
{Nausea}
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Le mur
{The Wall}
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Les mouches
{The Flies}
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L'Áge de raison
{Age of Reason}
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Le sursis
{The Reprieve}
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Morts sans sépulture
{The Victors}
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La putain respectueuse
{The Respectful Prostitute}
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Les jeux sont faits
{The Chips Are Down}
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Les mains sales
{Dirty Hands}
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L'Engrenage
{In the Mesh}
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La mort dans l'âme
{Iron in the Soul}
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Le diable et le bon dieu
{Lucifer and the Lord / The Devil and the Good Lord}
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Bariona
{Bariona / The Son of Thunder}
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Claude Simon (1913) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1985
Le vent
{The Wind}
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La corde raide
{The Taut Rope}
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Le sacre du printemps
{The Crowning of Spring}
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Le tricheur
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L'herbe
{The Grass}
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La route des Flanders
{The Flanders Road}
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La palace
{The Palace}
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Histoire
{Historia / History}
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La bataille de Pharsale
{The Battle of Pharsalus}
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Triptyque
{Triptych}
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L'invitation
{The Invitation}
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Les Géorgiques
{Georgics}
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Le tramway
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L'acacia
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Stendhal (1783 - 1842)
Le rouge et le noir
{The Red and the Black}
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La chartreuse de Parme
{The Charterhouse of Parma}
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Paul ( - Marie) Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine
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Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Voyages extraordinaires
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Cinq semaines en ballon
{Five Weeks in a Balloon}
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Le Voyage au centre de la Terre
{A Journey to the Centre of the Earth}
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De la Terre à la Lune
{From the Earth to the Moon}
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Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
{Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea}
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L'Íle mystérieuse
{The Mysterious Island}
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Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours
{Around the World in Eighty Days}
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Candide
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Emil
Zola
(1840 - 1902)
Germinal
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Au bonheur des dames
{Ladies Paradise}
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La bête humaine
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Nana
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