French Classics

The Last of the Mohicans has all the elements of a classic frontier adventure: massacres and raids, innocent settlers, hardened soldiers, renegade Indians, and a doomed love affair. It is a memorable portrait of fierce individualism and moral courage. But what draws readers and listeners again and again to this panoramic novel is its deep insight into the symbols of American consciousness.

Parti en voyage de noces en Afrique du Nord, Michel tombe gravement malade et se retrouve aux portes de la mort. Sa convalescence amènera une véritable conversion : l’intellectuel austère se découvre un désir de vivre, une curiosité pour le monde qui l’entoure et une sensualité inattendue. Mais sa volonté de satisfaire cette quête de liberté et d’épanouissement individuel se heurte à ses propres limites éthiques et au sens du devoir que Michel nourrit à l’égard de Marceline, son épouse dévouée.

Inspirées pour la plupart de poésies de l'antiquité, "Les Fables" de La Fontaine ont traversé les siècles sans perdre de leur sens. Ces petites histoires mettant en scène des animaux, la plupart du temps, possèdent bien souvent une morale que tout homme devrait garder en mémoire.

A widow in her mid thirties, Alison has been in mourning for two years. She lives with her sister and brother-in-law in West Virginia, and they are urging her to get on with her life and move back home. Alison promises to leave--just as soon as she renovates a nearly-ruined 1976 Corvette rusting...

Martha Horgan is not like other women. She stares. She has violent crushes on people. She can't stop telling the truth. Martha craves love, independence, and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging...

April and Oliver have been soul mates since childhood, and the attraction between them has always been palpable. Now, years after being completely inseparable, they have become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives are about to collide once again with the sudden death of...

Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer...

Lew Fonseca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up-and-up. New Lew is faced with one case that will try his...

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter...

Elinor Mackey has always done the right things in the right order–college, law school, career, marriage–but now everything’s going wrong. After two painful years of trying, Elinor has learned that she can’t have children. All the doctors can tell her is that it’s probably because of...

A frantic phone call from an old and dear friend on the other side of the world sends Henrie O to San Antonio, Texas, in search of her friend's granddaughter, Iris Chavez. Iris had been working at the family-owned Tesoros Gallery, a shop renowned for the priceless treasures it hunts for its...

A masterful dual narrative of Napoleon Bonaparte and a tiny microbe that pits the height of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, from the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water “Gripping . . . Talty brings international politics and science...

Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years...

At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments...

Many writers have highlighted South Florida's colorful characters, but John Deal is a remarkably normal man, put in extraordinary situations. Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined. Cuba has just normalized relations with...

After the death of his mother, Albert "Shoe" Horn is left to provide for his alcoholic father and look after his younger brother Bobby—a teenager with the mind of a child. After Shoe inadvertently kills a man in a fight, he must try to balance the need to protect his brother and his desire to...

Classique slovène du XIXe siècle inspiré de motifs populaires, ce conte qui s'adresse aux grands comme aux petits raconte avec finesse et humour l'histoire d'un paysan slovène à la force peu ordinaire et au caractère bien trempé, appelé à la cour de Vienne pour y combattre le géant Bruteaux, qui terrorise la population et assassine tous ceux qui osent l'affronter.

Jean Lehoulier doit fuir, avec sa famille, pour le Canada, car il a tué, dans une rixe, l'un de ses amis, Pierre Noël. Un jour, arrive un nouveau voisin, qui n'est autre que la veuve Noël et ses trois enfants. Les familles s'entraident, le fils Lehoulier, Arthur, tombe amoureux de la fille de Mme Noël, Suzanne. Le cousin d'Arthur, Gaspard, homme rustre, et méchant, est jaloux d'Arthur : il cherche à se débarrasser de lui et convoite Suzanne. Un jour, les deux jeunes gens partent pour une chasse aux phoques.

"Jézabel", roman : Dans le box des accusés, une femme, Gladys est coupable d'avoir tué son jeune amant. Elle n'est plus très jeune, très riche, encore belle, sans famille, isolée, perdue. Nous assistons au procès, puis découvrons le fil de sa vie, une vie où elle n'a recherché que le plaisir d'être aimée. Ce portrait de femme sans racines, enfermée sur elle-même, est disséqué avec une implacable cruauté.

L'Exilée, c'est Myrtô Elyanni, orpheline riche de sa seule beauté, que recueille en Hongrie sa cousine la comtesse Zolyani. Les détestables filles de celle-ci mènent la vie dure à la fière et belle étrangère. La douceur de Myrtô gagne l'affection de Renat, jeune fils du prince Arpad qui a perdu sa femme et traîne un deuil orgueilleux et glacé.