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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...

1856 1557 ed.
Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
Les Mandarins
Les Mandarins

by Simone de Beauvoir

HENRI found himself looking at the sky again-a clear, black crystal dome overhead.

1954 62 ed.
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

THEN there was the bad weather.

1964 25 ed.
Black Girl in Paris
Black Girl in Paris

by Shay Youngblood

PARIS. SEPTEMBER 1986. Early morning. She is lying on her back in a hard little bed with her eyes closed, dreaming in Fr...

2000 6 ed.
Paris After the Liberation
Paris After the Liberation

by Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper

In the early evening of Tuesday, 11 June 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain and General Charles de Gaulle caught sight of eac...

1994 16 ed.