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A translation of the French drama set in seventeenth-century France telling of Cyrano de Bergerac's secret love for Roxane.

Presents the classic play about an unattractive swordsman who falls in love with a beautiful woman, but courts her fora handsome but slow-witted suitor. Contains a timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, explanatory notes, and critical analysis.

A brief biography of Simone de Beauvoir, a French writer, political activist, and feminist who had a large impact on feminist existentialism and theory.

Presents Elie Wiesel's first three books, including "Night," his personal Holocaust memoir; "Dawn", a novel in which the narrator, the only survivor of a family murdered at Auschwitz, meditates on the act of murder; and "Day," a novel about the spiritual and physical struggles of a man who has seen too much evil.

Presents Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel's account of his experiences as a young boy with his father in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and features two novels, including "Dawn" in which a young man, living in Palestine after World War II as a member of a Jewish underground movement, has misgivings when ordered to execute a British hostage, and "Day," in which a successful journalist and Holocaust survivor, involved in an automobile accident, questions the meaning and worth of living.

Text and cartoon-style illustrations introduce the work and thought of French author and philosopher Alain Badiou.

Autobiography of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre on his first ten years of childhood in a book-loving family, examining how the printed word shaped him and ultimately how it shapes language in human experience.

A biography of Algerian author Albert Camus, translated from the French manuscript, discussing his impoverished childhood, his education, his association with communism, and other details of his personal life, and examining his writing career.

Presents a biography of Voltaire, providing information on his childhood, his education, his personal life, and his intellectual accomplishments.

Contains the text of the play about the swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac who secretly loves his cousin Roxane but believes he is too ugly to ever win her affection. Includes twelve critical commentaries about the play.