Door 7: International Day for Tolerance Book: Read a book set in Paris (seat of UNESCO). This was my first ever Maigret book. I bought it because I loved the cover - which is an odd reason given that I read the Kindle version where no one but me sees the cover. I opened ...
This is the first Maigret that I have read, though it is not the first Simenon that I’ve read. I’ve read this after watching the Rowan Atkinson version of Maigret. And those are great. This book is actually three stories – one of which stars Maigret and his wife,...
TITLE: The Phantom of the Opera AUTHOR: Gaston Leroux TRANSLATOR: David Coward FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780199694570 EDITION: Oxford World's Classics _________________________________ DESCRIPTION: "First published in French as a serial in 1909, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a rive...
This is a little gem of a book that was first published in France back in 1956. The author, Frederic Dard, published over 300 thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays. This book was first written by Dard as a play and then released in a film directed by Robert Hossein in 1955. The book ...
Of all the Inspector Maigret novels I have read thus far (10), "A Man's Head" on the face of it was one of the most baffling to me. The story begins with Maigret visiting La Santé Prison, where a man (Joseph Heurtin) he had apprehended and had apparently proven his guilt in the murders of a rich, el...
As many of you, since I learned ... to read, I have been hearing all these "classic" titles, that are must reads for anyone and have remained in human memory as incredible works to be cherished and respected. "La Dame aux Camelias" is one of those. It's a book we all know about, we've heard its name...
The narrator buys a courtesan's old book at a whim. Some time later, the man who gave her the book comes looking for it, and shares with the narrator their tale of love and sorrow. They had but a few short months together before her debts and his family's need to maintain their reputation came bet...
This book is part one of a three part series, the next two being the Louise de la Valliere, and the final being the more well known Man in the Iron Mask. I understand this was originally one HUGE book, but is now more commonly broken up into these three books. This book starts about ten years from w...
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