A homeless man is found beaten and unconscious along the banks of the Seine. Inspector Maigret must connect him to a past--and a possible motive for for his attempted murder. The investigation provides Maigret with a chilling look at those who have reject
Maigret's Christmas --Seven little crosses in a notebook --Maigret and the surly inspector --The evidence of the altar-boy --The most obstinate customer in the world --Death of a nobody --Sale by auction --The man in the street --Maigret in retirement.Nin
Monsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything.Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimps, with thiev
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminati
Memoirs of an Egotist, Stendhal’s fragmentary autobiographical work, is alert, wry, and perpetually self-questioning. Through a series of apparently random impressions of the political, social, and artistic movements of the world around him, he imbues a
«- Je vous parlerai comme à moi-même, dit Octave avec impétuosité. Il y a des moments où je suis beaucoup plus heureux, car enfin j'ai la certitude que rien au monde ne pourra me séparer de vous ; mais, ajouta-t-il... et il tomba dans un de ces mom
