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France

a Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog guide
2015
Introduces the history, geography, cities, people, food, famous places, and more of France.

The enormous room

2002
A memoir of Edward E. Cummings's four-month imprisonment in a French detention center as an alleged spy where he endures terrible conditions and meets up with the most deprived of all the immigrants.

Swann's way

1998
Growing up in Paris and Combray, the narrator recalls a maternal good-night kiss as well as his early love for Gilberte which later gives rise to his love for Odette and the newly rich Verdurins.

Remembrance of things past

2006
An intimate epic that offers the reader unsettling insight into our private selves and portrays us a jealous lovers and snobs living lazy, meaningless lives that can only be saved by art.

A tale of two cities

1994
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

The three Musketeers

2011
A graphic novel adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale about a young Frenchman, D'Artagnan, who travels to Paris in order to join the King's elite fighting force and comes under the influence of three of the Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

Napoleon

a life
2014
A biography of the soldier-statesman Napoleon, military genius, Enlightenment intellectual, and visionary builder, who forged a new nation of France out of the ashes of the French Revolution.

Babayaga

In 1959 Paris, a CIA agent mystified by Parisian girls, a beautiful young witch, a police detective turned into a flea while investigating a murder, and a fun-loving American in way over his head find their paths crossing in unusual ways.

Defiance

2011
In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police.

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