Watch Beauty and the Beast (1946)

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

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.

Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.

Read the classic novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Montmartre waitress rearranges the lives of strangers, in green and red.

A painter is hired to paint a bride in secret on a Breton island in 1770.

Patroclus and Achilles from boyhood to Troy; Miller's Orange Prize.