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  • The Memoirs of Cora Pearl

    by William Blatchford ...
    Cora Pearl, born in Plymouth, England, rose to become the best-known and most highly paid courtesan in Paris during the richest years of the Second Empire. Introduced to sex at a boarding school in Boulogne, she discovered that not only did she enjoy it, but she could use it as a means of becoming rich and famous – and indeed she slept her way into the bedroom of the top rank of Parisian ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Wall ...
    'A masterpiece' Julian BarnesFlaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But ... Read more

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  • The Perfume of The Lady in Black

    A Riveting French Mystery of Secrets, Suspense, and the Return of Rouletabille

    by Gaston Leroux ...
    The Perfume of The Lady in Black by Gaston Leroux is a masterful sequel to The Mystery of the Yellow Room, continuing the adventures of the brilliant young journalist-detective Joseph Rouletabille. Set amid looming danger and hidden identities, the story unfolds as dark secrets from the past resurface, threatening lives and unraveling carefully guarded truths. With atmospheric tension, intricate ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    by Gustave Flaubert, Adam Thorpe ...
    Translated by Adam Thorpe ...
    Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written.Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for 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, ... Read more

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  • Guy de Maupassant: The Complete Novels and Short Stories + A Biography of the Author

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Series series The Greatest Writers of All Time
    This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels and ... Read more

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  • The Devil in the Flesh

    by Raymond Radiguet ...
    Translated by Christopher Moncrieff ...
    Series series Neversink
    Hailed by Jean Cocteau as a "masterpiece," and by the Guardian as "Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero, avant la lettre," this taut tale written by a teenager in the form of a frank "confession" is a gem of early twentieth century romanticism. Long unavailable in the U.S., it is here presented in a sparkling new translation.Set in Paris during the First World War, it tells the story of Francois, ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Seeks a Wife (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    by Margaret Irwin ...
    Behind the glamour of an ancient house, a very modern woman finds herself trapped in a marriage market run by the dead.From the master of subtle, psychological horror, Margaret Irwin, comes a chilling tale of ancestral obsession and romantic doom.Young, sensible, and perhaps a little bored, the heroine finds herself drawn into the orbit of an eccentric family and their magnificent, oppressive ... Read more

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  • Mademoiselle Fifi (Mobi Classics)

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Mademoiselle Fifi is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882 in a collection of the same title. Like many of his short stories, such as Boule de Suif and Deux Amis, the story is set during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of class barriers, contrasts between the French and German participants, and the pointlessness of the war. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the ... Read more

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  • Boule de Suif

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by A. E. Henderson ...
    Series series World Classics
    "They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell..."A group of wealthy passengers on a coach are side-eyeing a sex worker on board, who goes by the name "Boule de Suif" (Ball of Fat). But when she shares her food with everyone, the mood changes and the passengers all ... Read more

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  • A Parisian Bourgeois' Sunday and Other Stories

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    A collection of stories by one of France's greatest short-story writers—the long title piece never having been available in English before. ... Read more

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  • La Grenadiere

    by Ellen Marriage, Honoré de Balzac ...
    La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with scattered green islands, flows between two lines of cliff, where country houses built uniformly of white stone stand among their gardens and vineyards. The finest fruit in the world ripens there with a southern ... Read more

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  • The Room In The Dragon Volant

    by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan ...
    Stunningly effervescent the book encapsulates moral corruption in the society. Le Fanu has lucratively embellished the story with terror and suspense. Its remarkable poetic sense delicate language and incidents give these tales quite a distinguished place among works of sensational fiction. Absolutely worth reading! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD