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Geneva is Switzerland's French-speaking city on a crescent lake. It hosts the world's negotiations — and Mary Shelley's ghost story was dreamed up on its shore in the Year Without a Summer. The Frankenstein text and Contagion both pass through its labs. Open Geneva on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Geneva on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Geneva
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Browse 26 books, 16 movies and 1 game set in Geneva.
Three Colors: Red
Valentine a student model in Geneva struggles with a possessive boyfriend and a troubled family. When she runs over a dog she discovers that its owner a retired judge is illegally wiretapping and eavesdropping on his…
Contagion
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as…
Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Institutes of the Christian Religion This limited edition of John Calvin's Reformation classic, "Institutes of the Christian Religion," commemorates the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth in 1509.This beautiful new…
The Little Soldier
During the Algerian war for independence from France a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love.…
Azor
Yvan De Wiel a private banker from Geneva is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner the object of the most worrying rumors who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges swimming…
The Calculus Affair
Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion. Glass things break without any apparent reason. The Professor somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events leaves the following day to attend a conference…
Eleven Minutes
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love,…
The Defector
Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican.…
عنف الديكتاتورية
"Freiheit ist nicht möglich ohne Autorität (sonst wird sie zum Chaos) und Autorität nicht ohne Freiheit (sonst wird sie zur Tyrannei)." Diese Forderung Stefan Zweigs nach politischer Vernunft und humaner Toleranz bildet…
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