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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="French fiction"
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A tale of two cities
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Dickens, Charles

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens?s most exciting books?a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events…

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9780679729655
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400 p. ; 13 cm
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Vintage classics
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SS F DIC t
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Madame bovary
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Flaubert, Gustave

Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for the passion of romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through extravagant spending sprees and, eventually, adultery. As Emma pursues her impossible reverie s…

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9780099573074
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xxii, 347 p. ; 20 cm.
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Vintage classics
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The three musketeers
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Dumas, Alexandre

Overview: A young Gascon gentleman, D' Artagnan, arrives in Paris determined to join the infamous King's guards and is soon befriended by the band of musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis famed for their impressive swordplay and fearless spirit. With the treacherous Cardinal Richelieu and his seductive spy, Milady, weaving a web of deceit and royal intrigue, the friends are soon drawn into an e…

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9781849907491
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xvii, 730 p. ; 20 cm.
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The stranger
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Camus, Albert

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed ""the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."" First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward

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ISBN/ISSN
9780679720201
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123 p. ; 21 cm.
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A F CAL s