Product Description: February 1916 saw the opening stages of one of the most fearful battles of the World War I, at Verdun, between France and Germany. The German High Command believed in a strategy of attrition and felt that Germany could, by choosing a point of attack which the French felt they would have to defend at all costs, bleed France to death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman (view table of contents)

A nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.

Traces the career of the great French novelist and poet, attempts to capture his complex personality, and assesses his place in French literature

Depicts the life of the French author, Marcel Proust, and discusses the writing of his novel, Remembrance of things past