19th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602221Author Gaston LeRouxFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377988Author Honore de BalzacFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Epoque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart ... FIRST in a bewitching new series ...

During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513206639Author Victor HugoFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Poetical biographies of six radical thinkers from Cagliostro to Restif de la Bretonne, by the leading figure of French Romanticism First published in French in 1852, The Illuminated was the first of a string of Gerard de Nerval's late works that would...

Earl Lind's 1918 autobiography has been recognized as a pioneering work in the history of transgender literature. Throughout his life, Lind was forced to justify and defend his existence from puritanical authorities. In the first of his trilogy of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642510454Author Prosper MerimeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Frayed Edge PressPublisher Frayed Edge PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Lourdes (1894) is a novel by French author Emile Zola. Lourdes is the first installment in Zola's celebrated Three Cities Trilogy. Published toward the end of Zola's career, the trilogy is an ambitious, sweeping study of one man's struggle with faith in...

A Page of Love (1878) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The eighth of twenty volumes of Zola’s monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens...