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The ladies' paradise by Émile Zola( )

2 editions published in 1964 in French and held by 65 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Provincial girl in 19th-century Paris takes part in the battle of the first department store versus the small shopkeepers

Money by Émile Zola( )

2 editions published in 1927 in French and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard perilously begins to inflate the value of his enterprise using rumour, intrigue, financial manipulation and all the other tricks in the book.Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola, Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the press

Lettre à Louis XIV by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon( )

2 editions published in 1961 in French and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The masterpiece by Émile Zola( )

2 editions published in 1928 in French and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public

Isabelle by André Gide( )

2 editions published in 1961 in French and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Isabelle -- The pastoral symphony

No tomorrow = Point de lendemain by Vivant Denon( Book )

2 editions published in 1984 in French and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Point de lendemain (No Tomorrow) is the English translation of a French 18th century masterpiece, Point de Lendemain by Dominique Vivant Denon. Written in 1777 and re-edited in 1812, Point de Lendemain is a record of the initiation of a young man and a member of a secret society. Giovanna Summerfield's preface and notes will offer a new way of reading Point de Lendemain, marginalizing the triviality of sex and the love triangle, which has been thus far seen as a physical need rather than as an expression of supremacy and challenge of God. This tale of seduction is itself a seduction, with a plot that could be said to slowly unveil itself before arriving at last at an unexpected consummation. Summoned by Madame de T---- to her country house, the young hero of Denon's novella is taken on a tour of the grounds, only the beginning of a night that not only will be full of unanticipated delights but will give rise to unforeseen, perhaps unanswerable, questions. Lydia Davis's definitive translation of Denon's slim masterpiece is accompanied by the French text. Peter Brooks's illuminating introduction explores the mysteries of "No Tomorrow"'s original publication and the subtleties of Denon's ethics of pleasure

Aphrodite : mœurs antiques by Pierre Louÿs( )

1 edition published in 1932 in French and held by 63 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Although `Aphrodite' is concerned with a deep heterosexual passion, the Lesbian theme is used as background. (D.W. Cory)

Margot la Ravaudeuse by Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron( )

2 editions published in 1965 in French and held by 62 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Margot est une jolie "ravaudeuse" : elle reprise les bas sur le trottoir, dans un tonneau qui lui sert d'atelier, à même la rue. Mais la chance d'une vie plus confortable lui sourit lorsqu'elle devient... Prostituée ! Dans un monde de paillardise, d'agitation et de bruit, où les frères de l'Eglise sont des maquereaux et les amoureux naïfs des pigeons bons à être plumés, Margot saura-t-elle trouver sa place ? Découvrez les turpitudes burlesques et érotiques de Margot : un roman libertin à la bonne humeur contagieuse. -- 4ème de couverture

De la religion : considérée dans les rapports avec l'ordre politique et civil by Félicité Robert de Lamennais( )

2 editions published in 1825 in French and held by 62 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Entretien d'un pere by Denis Diderot( )

2 editions published in 1984 in French and held by 62 WorldCat member libraries worldwide