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“marta morazzoni”

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  • The Alphonse Courrier Affair

    by Marta Morazzoni ...
    Translated by Emma Rose ...
    Alphonse Courrier possesses all the might reasonably make a man content: a prosperous ironmonger's business and a position of respect in his Auvergne village, a dutiful, coolly beautiful wife who runs an irreproachable household, two healthy sons, and a hidden mistress - "the ugliest girl in the village but probably the happiest".Prying eyes and wagging tongues, however, are the life force in a ... Read more

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY • Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert.At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless ... Read more

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  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translationMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics ... Read more

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  • A Very Easy Death

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    by Simone De Beauvoir ...
    A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.Translated by Patrick O'Brian ... Read more

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  • Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell, B.W. Huebsch ...
    This classic Austrian novella paints a deeply moving portrait of a woman whose quest for passion and purpose comes at a steep priceThe less I felt in myself, the more strongly I was drawn to those places where the whirligig of life spins most rapidly.So begins an extraordinary day in the life of Mrs C—recently bereaved and searching for excitement and meaning. Drawn to the bright lights of a ... Read more

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  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1

    by Marcel Proust ...
    One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and extraordinarily fine translation of the novel from ... Read more

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  • The Late Mattia Pascal

    by Luigi Pirandello ...
    Translated by Nicoletta Simborowski ...
    Pascal, a landowner fallen on hard times and trapped in a miserable marriage, runs away from home and wins a lot of money at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo. Meanwhile a body has been found in the millrace of his village and it is assumed that Pascal has killed himself. Seizing what looks like a chance to create a new life, he travels to Rome under an assumed name and struggles to invent a ... Read more

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  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis)

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    by Bright Summaries ...
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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, which follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who is shunned and rejected by society in spite of his incredible talent as a perfume-maker. What no one knows is that his ... Read more

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  • Bruges-la-Morte

    by Georges Rodenbach ...
    Dedalus should be treasured: a small independent publisher that regularly produces works of European genius at which the behemoths wouldn't sniff. If the corporations did care to look at this new work, they would find, on the surface, a precursor to W G Sebald, a Symbolist vision of the city that lays the way for Aragon and Joyce, and a macabre story of obsessive love and transfiguring horror that ... Read more

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  • Thérèse Raquin

    by Émile Zola ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime. Published in 1867, this is Zola's most important work before the Rougon-Macquart series and ... Read more

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  • In Lucia's Eyes

    by Arthur Japin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi. • "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." —San Francisco ChronicleLucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But ... Read more

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  • La Bête humaine

    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he ... Read more

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