Editor : Fernand Hazan

"Adolphe tells of the inexorable breakdown of a love relationship. After seducing Ellénore out of vanity rather than love, Adolphe is unable to break up or love. His indecision, between sincerity and bad faith, as well as a kind of sadism mixed with…

Collection "The Classics of the World".

Introduction and notes by Henri MARTINEAU.

"Le Rouge et le Noir, subtitled Chronique du XIXe siècle, then Chronique de 1830, is a novel written by Stendhal, first published in Paris by Levasseur on 13 November…

Collection "All over the world".

Les Chardons du Baragan (in Romanian Bărăgan) is a novel by the French-language Romanian writer Panaït Istrati, published in 1928. It is conceived both as a fictional autobiography and a picaresque and learning novel.…