The Whole Land Brimstone by Anna Langfus
Anna Langfus | The Whole Land Brimstone | A young girl who all her life has been protected, first by her parents, then by her husband, is one day faced with the reality of war in Poland under
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Claudine In Paris by Colette
Colette | Claudine In Paris | The second book in Colette’s enchanting Claudine series.
Seventeen-year-old Claudine is in despair having left her beloved village Montigny f
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
The Love-Seekers by Leonora Hornblow
Leonora Hornblow | The Love-Seekers | The heroine’s hesitation between marriage with a steady and reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum, is resolved when her affairs are int
The Rise Of Simon Lachaume by Maurice Druon
Maurice Druon | The Rise Of Simon Lachaume | Great banking family Siegfried Schoudler and the old aristocratic family of de La Monerie, and the hold the wiley opportunist, Simon Lachaume , came t
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann | Dusty Answer | Judith Earle grew up privately educated in a large riverbank house in Buckinghamshire. Judith is an only child, with her only playmates being the five
The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
Négar Djavadi | Disoriental | Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future sh
Cards Of Identity by Nigel Forbes Dennis
Nigel Forbes Dennis | Cards Of Identity | At the annual meeting of the Identity Club, a group of psychologists come together. They present ‘case histories’ in support of their theories of iden
Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Truman Capote | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the liter