Françoise Sagan

Sagan's latest novel focuses on a young man who doesn't like war but, nevertheless, joins the Resistance out of love for a woman.

Een Engelse weduwe keert in 1832 terug naar haar voorvaderlijk kasteel in Angoulême en begint een verhouding met een dichter.

The obsessive jealousy of a rich young American Adonis Alan drives his Parisian wife Josee to the extremes of retaliation as she is driven to a number of amorous adventures. The actions in the novel take place primarily in Florida, New York, and Paris.

Studies a small circle of young Parisians and the changing pattern of their love affairs.

The scanned book is missing pages 50 & 51. And pages 90 & 91.

Paule a 39 ans, c'est une femme libre et douce, sur qui les années passent avec nonchalance. Son amant, Roger, entretient avec elle une relation légère qui lasse et emprisonne Paule par sa versatilité. Lorsque Simon, un jeune homme de 25 ans, décide de la séduire, elle se laisse aimer, par vengeance mais aussi parce qu'elle veut être heureuse. Les paradoxes et les écueils de l'amour craquèlent peu à peu la surface lisse de son existence. Aimez-vous Brahms ? a paru en 1959 et a été adapté au cinéma avec Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand et Anthony Perkins en 1960.

The literary sensation of Paris in 1954 was "Bonjour Tristesse," a novel written by an eighteen year, old girl. By 1955 in translation it was offered to American readers. Some found it shocking but here was a talent extraordinary for its maturity of style and its adult perceptiveness of human character.

Paul Cazavel, a successful and seemingly healthy Parisian architect, learns from his doctor one morning, after a presumably routine checkup, that he has lung cancer. The doctor's prognosis is that he has at best six months to live. At thirty-nine, Paul feels betrayed and cheated, but can't indulge in self-pity on a day he has to spend breaking the tragic news to the people he thought meant everything to him. There's his "best" friend, who, it turns out, is too busy with his own career to sympathize with Paul's dire disclosure; a mistress so carried away by her own grief that she forgets her lover's existence; a wife whose joy at the news of her husband's impending death shimmers through her cynical show of devotion. What has Paul been doing all his life? And who are all these insufferable people surrounding him? Paul has no time to keep up appearances. Under the gun of an inexorable deadline, he does exactly as he pleases, leaves his boring job, abandons his family, finds and pursues the only woman he really ever loved but had never dared commit to. His death liberates his life - for a while. But nothing goes according to plan in a novel in which the unexpected is the order of the day.

Si Laurence tient Vincent en laisse, elle aura le tort, au premier signe d'indépendance, de trop tirer sur elle. Mal lui en prend.

The baby of the family, Daniella Duvall has a passion for adventure in her blood. But the thrill-seeking travel writer gets more than she bargained for when the plane she's on spirals out of control in midair! The tall, dark stranger who comes to the rescue both intrigues and attracts her. When he disappears after their emergency landing, she's determined to find her vanished hero again. The man calling himself Richard Engleright is really former medic pilot Trenton Sheppard. He has his reasons for staying out of the spotlight, but then Daniella shows up on his doorstep. Caught between a dangerous secret and his desire for the elegant beauty, he gives in to temptation…only to thrust her into harm's way. With everything on the line, Trenton is forced from the shadows, and he will fight to keep his secret past from destroying the possibility of a future with Daniella.