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  • Catherine's Coquetries: A Tale of French Country Life

    “Bravo, Sidonie!” “Ah, but he escapes her, the scamp!” Thus shout the spectators as they watch a poor young lame girl chase, with all her energy, a young fellow of two and twenty, who makes all possible effort to elude her. Sidonie’s right hand clasps an important adjunct of the homely game—a little cluster of red raspberries. In the absorbed ardor of pursuit the “Little Crook,” as they call her, ... Read more

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  • Catherine's coquetries : A tale of French country life

    Enriched edition. Love and Intrigue in Provincial France

    Translated by Leon Mead ...
    In "Catherine's Coquettries: A Tale of French Country Life," Camille Debans masterfully weaves a narrative that captures the essence of rural France through the experiences of its titular character, Catherine. The novel is characterized by its lush, descriptive prose and an intimate, conversational style that draws readers into the quaint yet complex world of village life. Set against the backdrop ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Lecoq (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Murder Mystery Novel

    Monsieur Lecoq stands among the foundational texts of detective fiction, presenting a complex inquiry into a brutal crime at the Paris tavern La Poivrière. Gaboriau combines melodramatic intrigue, social observation, and procedural exactitude, placing Lecoq's inductive reasoning within the turbulent moral landscape of Second Empire France. Its layered structure, moving from crime scene analysis to ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Lecoq: Émile Gaboriau

    Classic detective story and fourth book in the Monsieur Lecoq series. ... Read more

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  • Simon's Papa and other stories

    The book titled Simon’s Papa and other Stories comprises various interesting stories related to human life on pragmatic, imaginative thought process. Most of the stories give the lesson to live a placid life. Simon’s Papa is one of the inspiring stories. Let’s read, relish and acknowledge.Simon was a school-going child but he was not attending his school daily because his schoolfellows were ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Monsieur de Mailly

    from the author of A Voyage to Arcturus

    by David Lindsay ...
    France, 1700 — an age of wit and sophistication, frippery and flattery, reputation and ridicule; an age of politics, romance, intrigue and the sword.Gaston de Mailly, ex-solider and down-at-heel gentleman, is living in a Paris that has little use for his skill with a blade. Fortunately, his wit is equally sharp. Allying himself to the sceptical lawyer Fleurus, Mailly offers to try his hand at any ... Read more

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  • The Eight Strokes of the Clock

    Hortense Daniel pushed her window ajar and whispered: Are you there, Rossigny? I am here, replied a voice from the shrubbery at the front of the house. ... Read more

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  • A Love Episode, from the Rougon-Macquart series of novels, in English translation

    by Emile Zola ...
    Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1878. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major novel, Therese Raquin (1867), Zola started the long series called Les ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Lecoq, in English translation

    Classic French mystery novel, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 September 28, 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction... after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866). The book, which was Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced an amateur ... Read more

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  • Catherine's Coquetries A Tale of French Country Life

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Catherine's Coquetries: A Tale of French Country Life is a novel by French author and journalist Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly. The novel was first published in 1861, and tells the story of Catherine, a beautiful and flirtatious young woman who lives in the French countryside. The novel explores the themes of love, seduction, and betrayal, as Catherine uses her beauty and charm to manipulate the ... Read more

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  • Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales

    Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales is a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant, focusing on themes of love, marriage, infidelity, and the human condition. In these stories, Maupassant explores the complexities and ironies of relationships, often revealing the darker and more humorous sides of human nature.The central story, Comedy of Marriage, is a satirical and insightful look at the ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Lecoq

    The last Lecoq novel goes back to the beginning, to Monsieur Lecoq's first case, the case that began his reputation as a master of detection, master of disguise, and master of detail. The case begins simply: Lecoq and several other policemen come upon a crime as it's being committed. Three men are dead and the killer is in custody. But who is he? Lecoq and his companion officer spend months trying ... Read more

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