Read Journey to the End of the Night

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

The madeleine and the first volume of In Search of Lost Time; start here.

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

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.