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  • Gilded Youth

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    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

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  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    de Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Leer más

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  • The Last Love of George Sand

    A Literary Biography

    George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver ... Leer más

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  • Albert Camus

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    de Olivier Todd ...
    Traducido por Benjamin Ivry ...
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  • Dreyfus

    Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

    de Ruth Harris ...
    The definitive, award-winning history of the infamous Dreyfus Affair, a scandal that shook nineteenth-century France and stunned the world.National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and was imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France ... Leer más

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  • The Other Paris

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    How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris

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  • In the Shadows of Paris

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  • Marcel Proust

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