
Anatole France is the first one to introduce to the French literature the character of the intellectual bibliophile. In the tetralogy A Chronicle of Our Own Time this character is situated in the contemporary Third Republic which is a rough period
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Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis
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Tamburlaine the Great achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage. And it speaks provocatively to our own time, when it has been the subject of numerous major productions. Timur Khan--to give Tamburlaine his original name--was
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion
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Charming and elegant, Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of
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“The She-Devils” is the undeniable masterpiece of the famous for his dandy life French novelist and short-story writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. The book contains six, imbued with a black romanticism, Baroque stories. Each story features a woman who
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Don Quixote is universally regarded as Cervantes' masterwork and one of the greatest novels of all time.
The novel is actually two separate books that cover the adventures of Don Quixote, also known as the knight or man of La Mancha, a hero who
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The book “Memoirs of a Yellow Dog. Short Stories” contains the following O. Henry's short stories: “The red street”, “A Cosmopolite In A Cafe”, “The Furnished Room”, “Between Rounds”, “Memoirs Of A Yellow Dog”, “The Mammon And The Archer”, “Friend
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"These pages are a fragment from "Pleasant Memories" which Marquis de Bradomin, already very old, began to write while inexile. A charming Don Juan. Perhaps the most charming! He was unsightly, a Catholic and sentimental."
In this way Ramon del
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“Tales of the Fantastic” contains some of the short novels of the famous French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic Théophile Gautier. Through this book the readers will take delight in the texts of a
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