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  • Bataille de dames

    by Ernest Legouve, Eugene Scribe ...
    The play is a lighthearted exploration of the rivalries and intrigues among the women of the French aristocracy, using wit and humor to examine social expectations, relationships, and the complex dynamics between men and women. The story revolves around two women of high social standing who are caught in a fierce competition for the affections of the same man, each using her charm, beauty, and wit ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Believe It or Not

    by Eugène Scribe ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In Scribe's Le Puff (1848) - translated here as Believe It or Not - an honourable cavalry officer returns to Paris after five years abroad to find his countrymen happily addicted to exaggeration, dissimulation and downright lying. Can he find happiness and keep his integrity in a world where nothing is what it seems?The enduring qualities of Scribe's work - the complex yet elegant plotting, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Adrienne Lecouvreur

    by Ernest Legouve, Eugene Scribe ...
    Set in 18th-century France, the play is based on the life of the famous French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, exploring themes of love, jealousy, and the dramatic tensions between personal ambition and the complexities of royal court life. The play combines historical events with fictionalized elements, focusing on the tragic story of Lecouvreur, whose beauty and talent captivated audiences but ... Read more

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  • The Three Musketeers

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Alexandre Dumas' thrilling tale of bravery, brotherhood and the triumph of good over evil, The Three Musketeers is translated with an introduction by Richard Pevear in Penguin Classics.'All for one, one for all - that is our motto!'Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join King's Louis XIII's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Queen’s Necklace

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    It is based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a scandal that occurred in France in the 1780s.The novel tells the story of Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy, a woman who was involved in a plot to steal a diamond necklace that was intended for Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France. Jeanne, who was a descendant of the royal Valois family, was in financial difficulty and saw the necklace as a way to ... Read more

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  • The Three Musketeers

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Translated by Lowell Bair ...
    It's "one for all and all for one!" as D'Artagnan and his three pals follow a course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France. ... Read more

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  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadA popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • The Lady of the Camellias

    by Alexandre Dumas fils ...
    Translated by Liesl Schillinger ...
    The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation"One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!, and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

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    by Martin Crimp, Martin Crimp, Edmond Rostand ...
    A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's ... Read more

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  • Old Man Goriot

    by Honoré de Balzac, Olivia McCannon ...
    Translated by Olivia McCannon ...
    Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Three Musketeers: Illustrated Young Readers' Edition

    by Alexandre Dumas ...
    Illustrated by Brett Helquist ...

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Misanthrope And Tartuffe

    by Molière ...
    The Pulitzer Prize winner's classic translations of Moliere's comic masterpieces satirizing shallowness, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy.The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In Tartuffe, a wily, opportunistic swindler manipulates a wealthy ... Read more

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