Read Swann's Way

Julien Sorel climbs through Restoration France by seduction; Stendhal's ambition novel.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

Bardamu through the war, colonial Africa, Detroit and the Paris suburbs; Celine's furious slang.

A concierge who hides her intelligence and a girl planning suicide in a Paris building.

A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.