Long hailed as one of the greatest adventure novels ever written, "The Three Musketeers" is the sweeping tale of love, loyalty and revenge in 19th century France. When young d'Artagnan embarks for Paris to follow his dream of becoming a cadet in the King's guard, he is instructed by his father to brook no insult to his honor. Following this advice soon gets d'Artagnan in a world of trouble, as he is soon embroiled in a trio of duels with three...

Essays on French writers of the 20th century, including the New Novelists whose literary innovations attracted attention in the late 1950s and 1960s. Covers the predominate movement toward formal and ideological liberalism, which was an ideological drift away from the authoritarian nineteenth-century structures and standards.

Essays on French fiction writers shows the widest possible range of fictional types. Covers those authors considered to be the greatest modern French novelists, their historical importance and their lasting value. Includes discussion of the importance of literary friendships as well as the importance of magazines, school and other connections among French novelists.

Literary biographies of French fiction writers of the Naturalism movement, with its emphasis on political and social questions and topics and the assimilation of the lessons of realism and symbolism.

While both Esther and Nejma want peace, each has a different experience during the founding of Israel; Esther is a Jewish girl who participtes in the founding, and Nejma is a Palestinian who becomes a refugee

"Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn't offer them many opportunities. The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family. The eldest son is a driver for an app-based car service, which comically puts him at odds with his father, whose...

Literary biographies of French fiction writers writing in the schools of Romanticism, with its emphasis on feeling and the irrational, on solitary experience, on nature, passion, and the exotic; and Realism, with its pragmatic philosophy and implied belief in the progressive amelioration of life through application of a materialist outlook and the scientific method to social problems.