The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.

Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this translation includes a full editorial apparatus.

Eleventh book in the author's Rougon-Macquart cycle.

In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.

A historical romance, this novel tells of the adventures of the hot-headed young Gascon, d'Artagnan and his three companions Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they gallantly defend the Queen of France, using their wit and their swords.

The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique bourgeois society from the post-Napoleonic era to the present age and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "primal history" that underlies its ideological mask.

Turned out of her ancestral home by her half-brothers after the death of their father, Angelique Latham moves to Paris and opens an elegant brothel with her inheritance.

The book examines the social life of non-Europeans in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and describes the political outgrowths of their migration to France.

In the standard English translation of the third volume, first published in 1920, of the classic French novel, the narrator is introduced to the characters of Parisian high society thanks to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes.

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years.