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The Fat and the Thin is a study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart.
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Emile Zola
Publisher
Vizetelly & Co. 1886
The first of a series of more than twenty novels, The Fortune of the Rougons presents the passions and conflicts of two families -- one wealthy and aiming at the aristocracy,
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Tells the story of a character typical to Turgenev -- a superfluous man, weak of will, brimming with indecisive frustration -- and yet tormented by ideals.
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Thomas Mann
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap 1909
'Royal Highness' is an early Mann work that might be an excellent introduction to those who are interested in his work. The novel is witty, the story flows naturally and it is much less sombre than many of his later works.
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The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829. Fabrice's early years are spent in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the novel is set in a...
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Victor Hugo
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Little, Brown, and Company 1909
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), son of one of the generals of Napoleon's armies, included among his vast literary output the political portrait Napoleon le petit, first published in 1852. Hugo's work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. ...
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Victor Hugo
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Estes and Lauriat 1869
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo is a superb narrative of a young man who, as a child, was abducted, sold and deformed -- obstensibly for profit, but, as it turns out, for dark political reasons as well. This is a highly readable translation.
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Louis Couperus
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Dodd, Mead and Company 1919
This delicate story is Louis Couperus' third novel. At the time when it was written, the author was a leading member of what was then known as the 'sensitivist' school of
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Emile Zola
Publisher
Vizetelly 1888
The Soil (aka The Earth; French original title: La Terre), around which the greatest controversy has raged, is a novel which treats of the conditions of agricultural
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Emile Zola
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Project Gutenberg 2004
Zola tells the story of a terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the French Second Empire: It is a story of war, grim and terrible; of a struggle to the death between two great nations. In it the author has put much of his finest work, and the result is one...