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  • The Buried Cause

    Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone

    Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone ... Read more

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  • A Cardinal Sin

    Intrigue, Corruption, and Moral Dilemmas in 19th-Century France

    by Eugène Sue ...
    Translated by Alexina Loranger Donovan ...
    Eug√®ne Sue'Äôs "A Cardinal Sin" delves into the moral complexities of faith, devotion, and human folly against the backdrop of 19th-century French society. This novel employs the dramatic style of feuilleton, blending elements of social critique and sensational narrative. Through vivid characterizations and intricate plots, Sue explores the dichotomy between piety and hypocrisy, exposing the ... Read more

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  • MURDER MYSTERY Boxed Set: Action Thrillers & Detective Tales (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. 19th-Century Paris Whodunits: Monsieur Lecoq Cases and Other Classic French Police Procedurals

    MURDER MYSTERY Boxed Set: Action Thrillers & Detective Tales gathers Émile Gaboriau's pioneering crime fiction, where sensational intrigue, social observation, and rigorous detection converge. These narratives move through drawing rooms, prisons, courts, and Parisian streets with the momentum of feuilleton fiction, yet they also establish many conventions of the modern detective tale: clue ... Read more

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  • The count of Monte Cristo Vol.5 by Alexandre Dumas

    The count of Monte Cristo Series

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    The count of Monte Cristo Vol.5 by Alexandre Dumas-Included TOC for Reader.-Included biography the author.-Added over 100 Illustrations.The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. He completed the work in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is ... Read more

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  • Camille (La Dame Aux Camilias)

    Camille (La Dame Aux Camilias) by Alexandre Dumas, Fils. ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Lecoq (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Murder Mystery Novel

    Monsieur Lecoq stands among the foundational texts of detective fiction, presenting a complex inquiry into a brutal crime at the Paris tavern La Poivrière. Gaboriau combines melodramatic intrigue, social observation, and procedural exactitude, placing Lecoq's inductive reasoning within the turbulent moral landscape of Second Empire France. Its layered structure, moving from crime scene analysis to ... Read more

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  • The Count's Millions

    It was a Thursday evening, the fifteenth of October; and although only half-past six o'clock, it had been dark for some time already. The weather was cold, and the sky was as black as ink, while the wind blew tempestuously, and the rain fell in torrents... ... Read more

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  • The Complete French Mystery Detective Anthologies of Emile Gaboriau (English Edition)

    French writer, considered the father of detective fiction. His first novel, The Lerouge Case was a huge success. We see the emergence of Lecoq, the detective. This character inspired Conan Doyle as a model of the ingenious detective who solves mysteries by his extraordinary deductive capabilities. But, unlike Sherlock Holmes, Lecoq is based on more realistic investigations, closer to the ... Read more

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  • La Constantin (Celebrated Crimes Series)

    This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "La Constantin". First published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), it recounts the semi-fictionalised story of Marie Leroux and her accomplice Claude. A history of the retribution which overtook these dastardly criminals, this tale of low morals and deep corruption in seventeenth century France will appeal to ... Read more

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  • The Deserted Woman

    Translated by Ellen Marriage ...
    Some of Honore de Balzac's best writing focuses on the frustrations and passions of women trapped in unhappy marriages. In the novella "The Deserted Woman," the Vicomtesse de Beauseant is trapped, but it is partially a trap of her own making. Abandoned by her lover and estranged from her husband, she contemplates her limited options. ... Read more

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  • Modeste Mignon

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Daughter of an enslaved land, angel through love, witch through fancy, child by faith, aged by experience, man in brain, woman in heart, giant by hope, mother through sorrows, poet in thy dreams, � to THEE belongs this book, in which thy love, thy fancy, thy experience, thy sorrow, thy hope, thy dreams, are the warp through which is shot a woof less ... Read more

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  • Monsieur Lecoq Cases: Complete Detective Series (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Parisian police procedural collection of methodical investigations inspired by Vidocq

    Monsieur Lecoq Cases: Complete Detective Series gathers Émile Gaboriau's pioneering investigations featuring the ingenious police detective Monsieur Lecoq, whose methods anticipate the modern logic of crime fiction. Combining sensational plots, meticulous clue-reading, social observation, and melodramatic suspense, these narratives move through prisons, courtrooms, aristocratic houses, and ... Read more

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