An adulterous affair leads to a double murder and an inescapable nightmare for Tony in this...
The Venice Train
During a chance meeting on the train from Venice to Paris, a stranger asks Justin Calmar to...
Germinal
Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...
Bonjour Tristesse
The French Riviera, home to the Beautiful People, and none are more beautiful than Cécile, a...
The Book of Mother
Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel...
The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By
Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Until the day he discovers that his...
Madame Bovary
With Madame Bovary Flaubert established the realistic novel in France. Yet he always refused to...
Nana
Perhaps Zola's most famous novel, Nana is an evocation of the glittering, corrupt world of the...
L’Assommoir
"I wanted to depict the inevitable downfall of the working-class family in the polluted atmosphere...