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The house I loved [text(large print)] / Tatiana de Rosnay.

Paris, 1869. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand.
Author: Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961-
Published: Bath : Paragon, 2013.
294 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.

Camden Home Library Service - (Camden Libraries) - Large Print - LP - Available - 30111044491958

Trilby [text(large print)] / George Du Maurier.

The story of diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered mythology, alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. The novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films and the naming of the trilby hat.
Author: Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Large Print, 2013.
432 pages (large print)

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Large Print - LP - Available - 30111044347770

French decadent tales / Stephen Romer.

This translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siècle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales cast a cold eye on the modern world.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
272 pages ; 20 cm.
Oxford world's classics

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - SS - Available - 30111067442771

In search of lost time. VI, Time regained / Marcel Proust ; translated by Andreas Mayor & Terence Kilmartin ; revised by D.J. Enright. A guide to Proust / compiled by Terence Kilmartin ; revised by Joanna Kilmartin.

'In Search of Lost Time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This final part contains notes, addenda and synopses, and a guide to the complete work.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Published: London : Vintage, 2000.
693 p. ; 20 cm.
Vintage classics

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Available - 30111050845873

Oscar Wilde and the dead man's smile [text(large print)] / Gyles Brandreth.

Set in Paris in 1883, Oscar, aged 27, discovers dark secrets lying at the heart of the La Grange company, and is confronted by murders both foul and bizarre.
Author: Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-
Published: Bath : Windsor, 2009.
376 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.

Camden Home Library Service - (Camden Libraries) - Large Print - LP - Available - 30111042971233

The flight of Icarus / Raymond Queneau ; translated by Barbara Wright.

In late 19th-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.
Author: Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976
Published: Richmond : Oneworld Classics, 2009.
120 p.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111050520450

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. 4, Sodom and Gomorrah / translated by C.K. Scott Montcrieff & Terence Kilmartin.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This edition contains notes, addenda and synopses.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
[Rev. and updated] ed. / revised by D.J. Enright.
Published: London : Vintage, 1996.
639 p. ; 20 cm.
Vintage classics

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Available - 30111050845899

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. 3, The Guermantes Way / translated by C.K. Scott Montcrieff & Terence Kilmartin.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This edition contains notes, addenda and synopses.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
[Rev. and updated] ed. / revised by D.J. Enright.
Published: London : Vintage, 1996.
706 p. ; 20 cm.
Vintage classics

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Available - 30111050845907

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. 3, The Guermantes way / translated and with an introduction and notes by Mark Treharne.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2002.
xiii, 620 p. ; 21 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111039670780

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. 4, Sodom and Gomorrah / translated and with an introduction and notes by John Sturrock.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2002.
xii, 561 p. ; 21 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111039671606

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. 5, The prisoner / translated and with an introduction and notes by Carol Clark ; translated and with an introduction and notes by Peter Collier.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2002.
xxv, 692 p. ; 21 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111039671598

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. 6, Finding time again / translated and with an introduction and notes by Ian Patterson.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2002.
xii, 373 p. ; 21 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111039891188

In search of lost time / Marcel Proust. Vol. 2, Within a budding grove / translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin.

'In search of lost time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century. This edition contains notes, addenda and synopses.
Author: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
[Rev. ed.] / revised by D.J. Enright.
Published: London : Vintage, 2002.
634 p. ; 20 cm.
Vintage classics

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - Available - 30111040913401
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Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall.

Finding herself stifled by marriage, Emma Bovary throws herself into a desperate love affair and by doing so, sows the seeds of her own downfall.
Author: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Published: London : Penguin, 2001.
xvi, 302 p. ; 22 cm.
Wonders of the world
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Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111041749234

History of the Thirteen / Honoré de Balzac ; translated and introduced by Herbert J. Hunt.

The three short novels that make up this book are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France.
Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Published: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1974.
391p. ; 19cm.
The Penguin classics

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111039469365