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1) Swann's way
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carries on with young Odette de Crecy.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Shocking at the time of its original publication, startling in its relevance today, Stendhal's masterpiece is a scorching social satire, a remarkably detailed portrait of a fraught moment in history and, as perhaps the first psychological novel, a brilliant precursor to modern literature at once comical and tragic, cerebral and passionate"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from...
Author
Series
In search of lost time volume 1
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of "In Search of Lost Time" is the perfect introduction to Proust's masterpiece."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England.
Series
The case study of Vanitas volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Since that fateful day when Vanitas crashed into Noé's life, the two have been inseparable for better or worse, which makes the vampire the perfect puppet for Mikhail's schemes. With Dominique's life on the line, Noé will have to unveil the memories Vanitas is so desperate to keep hidden--no matter what it takes!"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a high-class courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt mother pulled her out of convent school to set her up as a sexual companion to a rich elderly gentleman. Sarah is pregnant and unmarried at sixteen, expected to give up her baby to the nuns, but she refuses to let him go. A natural talent and darkly beautiful, her innovative acting style attracts both admiration and scorn. Amazingly, she is hired by the famed Comédie Française-- only to have...
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