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In 1793, Évariste Gamelin, a poor young painter and ardent Jacobin, is appointed a juror on the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris.
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Jean Barois
Told largely in dialogue and documents, the life of Jean Barois, raised a Catholic, who loses his faith to science, founds a crusading review during the Dreyfus Affair and faces death.
A Tale of Two Cities
A French aristocrat who renounced his title and a dissolute English lawyer who looks just like him love the same woman, and the Terror in Paris brings them both to the guillotine's shadow.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
A deformed bell-ringer in medieval Paris falls in love with a beautiful dancer, and the cathedral that shelters him becomes a battleground between compassion and cruelty.
The Counterfeiters
In Paris, schoolboy Bernard runs away after discovering he is illegitimate and becomes secretary to the novelist Édouard, who is writing a novel called The Counterfeiters about the very people around him.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
Demons
A provincial Russian town is thrown into chaos by a small cell of revolutionaries, led by a manipulative young radical and orbiting the magnetic, hollow nobleman Stavrogin.
Meek Heritage
The life of Juha Toivola, a poor, slow-witted Finnish cottager born in the famine years of the 1860s, who drifts through hardship toward the civil war of 1918.
The Age of Reason
Over two days in Paris in the summer of 1938, Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher who prizes his freedom above everything, tries to raise the money for his mistress's abortion.
Les Misérables
An ex-convict who rebuilt his life is hunted for decades by a relentless police inspector while he raises an orphaned girl and Paris builds towards the barricades of 1832.
In Dubious Battle
Jim Nolan, a young Communist recruit, goes with the seasoned organiser Mac to a California valley to lead the apple pickers in a strike against the growers.
The Ebony Tower
A novella and four shorter pieces about concealment and desire: a young English painter's visit to an old master and his two young companions in Brittany, a medieval lay retold, a burglary, a vanished politician and a picnic.
Palace Walk
In Cairo at the end of the First World War, the merchant al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad rules his wife and children with an iron hand at home while spending his nights in music and drink.