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1) Break of day
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of nature--grows out of Collette's own period of self-assessment in the middle of her life"--P.4 of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This trilogy of novellas reaches back in time. Although originally published separately, Modiano’s three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers—each...
Author
Publisher
Exact Change
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Daumal's symbolic mountain represents a way to truth that "cannot not exist," and his classic allegory of man's search for himself embraces the certainty that one can know and conquer one's own reality. In this novel/allegory the author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to Lost Illusions, Lucien de Rubempre is in love with the courtesan Esther Gobseck, who is being pursued by the financier Nucingen, while Collin, disguised as a Spanish diplomat, is determined to use Lucien as a tool to pillage the upper reaches of Paris society.
7) Moravagine
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for the criminally insane by his starstruck psychiatrist (the narrator of the book), who foresees a companionship...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
Description
The imaginative breadth and the intellectual depth of [this novel] make it one of the greatest of Balzac's "Etudes philosophiques'. With its central symbol of the magic piece of shagreen, it expresses the peculiarly Balzacian idea of the human will and dramatizes with startling urgency the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, between vice and virtue, between dissipation and restraint. The symbolism is powerful but not overpowering:...
10) Nausea
Author
Publisher
New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
''Sartre's greatest novel ― and existentialism's key text ― now introduced by James Wood. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time ― the time of purple...
Author
Publisher
World Editions Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other. Alec, a press artist with an impressive track record, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago, before withdrawing from public life. That...
Author
Series
Collection folio volume 5775
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
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Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress. August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a lost valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to find out what it's like on the other side at the famous nudist beach. The trip ultimately takes...
14) HHhH
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tells the story Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubiš, who escaped Nazi-occupied Prague and were then recruited by the British Secret Service to carry out the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious "Butcher of Prague."
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.
16) Lost illusions
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young poet leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century. He is befriended by aristocratic patrons but finds himself relentlessly drawn to the low life of the big city.
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating...
17) Sphinx
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A landmark literary event: the first novel by a female member of Oulipo in English, a sexy genderless love story.
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