What is the best known novel by the author whose work was the basis for the French film Thomas the Impostor?
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Thomas the Impostor Thomas the Impostor (French: "Thomas l'imposteur" ) is a 1964 French film directed by Georges Franju and starring Emmanuelle Riva, Fabrice Rouleau, Sophie Dares, Jean Marais and Charles Aznavour. It is based on a novel of the same name by Jean Cocteau, which had first been published in French in 1923 and had been inspired by Cocteau's experiences in the first World War. An American edition of the novel, translated into English by Lewis Galentiere, was published in 1925 under the title "Thomas the Impostor", and another English translation by Dorothy Williams was subsequently published in 1957 under the title "The Impostor". The film was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (] ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel "Les Enfants Terribles" (1929), and the films "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Les Parents Terribles" (1948), "Beauty and the Beast" (1946) and "Orpheus" (1949). His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, Albert Gleizes, Igor Stravinsky, Marie Laurencin, María Félix, Édith Piaf, Panama Al Brown, Colette, Jean Genet, and Raymond Radiguet.
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The Torture Garden The Torture Garden (French: "Le Jardin des supplices" ) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is ironically dedicated: "To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."
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Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas ( ; ] ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ] ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, "père" ("father"), was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", and "". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, "The Knight of Sainte-Hermine," unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar Claude Schopp who was the leading authority on Dumas and published in 2005, becoming a best seller. It was published in English in 2008 as "The Last Cavalier."
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Franz Werfel Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and "The Song of Bernadette" (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.
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Pierre Lemaitre Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951 in Paris) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
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Désert (novel) Désert is a novel written by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio, considered to be one of his breakthrough novels. It won the Académie française's Grand Prix Paul Morand in 1980.
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Gaston de Pawlowski Gaston de Pawlowski (Joigny, 14 June 1874 - 2 February 1933, Paris) was a French writer best known for his prophetic 1911 novel of Science Fiction, "Voyage au pays de la quatrième dimension" ("Voyage to the Land of the Fourth Dimension").
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel) Thérèse Desqueyroux (] ) is the most famous novel by François Mauriac.
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Famous Impostors Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by Bram Stoker (the author of "Dracula"), published in 1910. It is a book that deals with exposing various impostors and hoaxes.
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François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud (8 September 1718 – 8 November 1805) was a French writer and dramatist. A practitioner of the "roman noir". His series of novellas "Les Épreuves du sentiment" inspired Bellini's opera "Adelson e Salvini".
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Simon Called Peter Simon Called Peter is a novel by Robert Keable (1887–1927) which was a best-seller in 1921. The title is a reference to Simon Peter the apostle and first Pope of the Catholic Church.
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Thérèse Raquin (character) Thérèse Raquin is a fictional character created by Émile Zola, first appeared in his own written novel "Thérèse Raquin", published in 1867.
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Joseph Malègue Joseph Malègue (8 December 1876 – 30 December 1940), was a French catholic novelist, principally author of ' (1933) and '. He was also a theologian and published some theological surveys, as "Pénombres" about Faith and against Fideism. His first novel is, following the French historian of spirituality Émile Goichot, the most accurately linked to Modernism. Pope Francis quoted in several circumstances, among them in El Jesuita this Malègue's view about Incarnation : ‘’ It is not Christ who is incomprehensible for me if He is God, it is God who is strange for me if He is not Christ.‘’
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Gamiani Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (French: "Gamiani, ou deux nuits d'excès" ) is a French erotic novel first published in 1833. Its authorship is anonymous, but it is believed to have been written by Alfred de Musset and the lesbian eponymous heroine a portrait of his lover, George Sand. It became a bestseller among nineteenth century erotic literature.
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Séraphîta Séraphîta (] ) is a French novel by Honoré de Balzac with themes of androgyny. It was published in the Revue de Paris in 1834. In contrast with the realism of most of the author's best known works, the story delves into the fantastic and the supernatural to illustrate philosophical themes.
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Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1964) is an English author, known for her award-winning novel "Chocolat". It was later turned into the 2000 film "Chocolat".
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Chitralekha (novel) Chitralekha is a 1934 Hindi novel, written by Bhagwati Charan Verma. The novel is about the philosophy of life and love, sin and virtue. The novel was written, while the author was still practicing law at Hamirpur and brought him immediate fame and starting his literary career. The novel is inspired by the famous novel "Thaïs" by Anatole France.
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Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne ( ; ] ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Robert Briffault Robert Stephen Briffault {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (] , 1874 – 11 December 1948) was a French surgeon who found fame as a social anthropologist and later in life as a novelist.
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Ignorance (novel) Ignorance (French: "L'ignorance" ) is a novel by Milan Kundera. It was written in 1999 in French and published in 2000. It was translated into English in 2002 by Linda Asher, for which she was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize the following year.
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Toilers of the Sea Toilers of the Sea (French: "Les Travailleurs de la mer" ) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. "Les Travailleurs de la Mer" is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island.