On the shelf
Books.
Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.
$9.50
Camille
Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.
$9.50
Tarrano the Conqueror
A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.
$9.00
The Secret Adversary
An energetic early Christie adventure pairing suspense, conspiracy, and charm with the debut of Tommy and Tuppence.
$9.50
