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

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.

The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carried on with young Odette de Crecy.

"A solid, thought-provoking study of a far more complex world than historians of seventeenth-century Virginia have yet offered."--"Journal of Southern History"

In this acclaimed work, Christopher Hibbert charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on a tennis court at Versailles in 1789 right through to 1795 and the rise to power of Napoleon.

Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris.

This is a newly revised, unabridged translation.

A historical novel about the ruin of an imaginary country called Kasch, set in the context of true events.