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Roman Blood
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171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE AND OTHER STORIES OF AUGUSTE DUPIN (Annotated)
These are classics of the genre. The first classics of the genre. Published in 1841, Murders in the Rue Morgue put on the foundations of the Detective genre. Rereading it made me aware of the whole Holmes vibe and I started to think about Doyle getting "inspired" and how writers, artists in our times are very much restraint in the ridiculous length of the copyright promoted by multinational corporations. But I digress. These and the Mary Roget story are a must read for any detective stories lovers. They are wonderful and if you can read them in French (I know translation!) but when the translation is done by one Charles Baudelaire you just might find that the translated stories are a work of art all of their own.
 - Edgar Allan Poe)