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Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
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Category: Classic Fiction
On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in S ...Show more
The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
In late-nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Mon ...Show more
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Brû, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he will have to contend with disgruntled in-laws, eccentric locals, a cunning wife, a shifty career in fortu ...Show more
The Sunday of Life by Raymond Queneau
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he will have to contend with disgruntled in-laws, eccentric locals, a vulgar and cunning wife, a shifty care ...Show more
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau; Barbara Wright (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a ...Show more
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