Penguin USA. 06/01/1995. Reprint. 157 pgs. GIGI--which became the successful Lerner-Loewe movie musical--is the story of a young Parisian girl in training to be a courtesan, and the man-about-town who falls in love with her. As the delightful Gigi, one of Colette's most successful characters, batters with her lover Gaston against the rigid traditions of fin de siècle French society, Colette demonstrates the superiority of true love over mere commerce. In THE CAT, a young man named Alain is devoted to his cat, a Russian Blue named Saha, to the exclusion of people. When he marries Camille, his disgust for her, and for their sex life, grows in proportion to his increasing appreciation of the cat, whom he views as a purer being, untainted by lust. Camille--understandably--become jealous of Saha, and finally acts on her resentment. But Colette's dénouement is far from predictable, and the surprise ending is what makes this very short (and rather bizarre) novel into a small masterpiece. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 04/01/1999. 381 pgs. Zola uses the construction of a huge block of flats in late 19th-century Paris as the starting point in this satire of the bourgeoisie. His novel offended many French citizens when it was published, and involved Zola in scandal and litigation. Originally published at $10.95 You save 82% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 01/01/1997. Reprint. 128 pgs. The Blakes area prosperous black bourgeois family whose complacent lives are shattered when two black militants, members of a group called "The Committee," take them hostage in their own home. Over the course of twelve desperate hours both sides will strip themselves to the emotional bone and have their lives changed forever. This is Henry Van Dyke's third novel, first published in 1969. Originally published at $10.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library Classics. 06/01/1961. Reissue. Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov makes his way through the rural Russian countryside visiting landowners and town officials in a scheme to buy up "dead souls"--serfs who have died since the last census. He secretly hopes to have enough "souls," at least on paper, for financial leverage in a real estate deal in eastern Russia. Chichikov is alternately welcomed and greeted with suspicion by villagers, lawyers, town presidents, fellow travelers, and retired military men. Through these characters, Gogol paints a semi-allegorical portrait of the attitudes, weaknesses, habits, and eccentricities of his fellow countrymen. Sometime after he began "Dead Souls" in the autumn of 1835, Gogol became more and more convinced that he was writing an epic that would embrace all of Russia. This ambition consumed him, and, although he worked tirelessly on this project until his death by fasting in 1852, the version of "Dead Souls", as it was published in 1841, remains the only finished volume of a projected three-volume work. Originally published at $4.95 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Barrons Educational Series Inc. 08/01/1985. 122 pgs. George F. Babbitt is an ordinary man whose life undergoes climactic changes in this brilliant classic novel about middle America, first published in 1922. Originally published at $2.50 You save 60% off the cover price!

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