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Nana

Emile Zola · 463 pages

Overview: Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, "the golden fly", rising out of the underworld to feed on society--a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others' disintegration and final collapse in 1890. Built around the book's scientific skeleton is a powerful, sensual atm

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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 272 pages

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Tender Is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 349 pages

A psychiatrist, Dick Diver, treats and eventually marries a wealthy patient, Nicole. Eventually, this marriage destroys him.

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Basil

Wilkie Collins · 310 pages

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The Red and the Black

Stendhal · 472 pages

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Quartet

Jean Rhys · 186 pages

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 443 pages

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

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Anna Karenina, Vol 1 of 2

Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoj · 789 pages

Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of ninetee

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The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy · 403 pages

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area - a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of betrayal,

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La Dame aux Camélias

Alexandre Dumas fils · 215 pages

- Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise.

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Fortunata and Jacinta

Benito Perez Galdos · 848 pages

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Le Bal

Irene Nemirovsky · 112 pages

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The Buccaneers

Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring · 406 pages

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 418 pages

Emily Bronte's dark romance, with an introduction from best-selling author Alice Hoffman Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion of Wuthering Heighths as an orphan child. Cathy is the daughter of the wealthy family that takes him in. They are drawn together from the moment they meet, their love consuming, destructive, and full of desire. They cannot be together, and yet they cannot stay apart. Th

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Effi Briest

Theodor Fontane · 272 pages

In Front des schon seit Kurfuerst Georg Wilhelm von der Familie von Briest bewohnten Herrenhauses zu Hohen-Cremmen fiel heller Sonnenschein auf die mittagsstille Dorfstrasse, waehrend nach der Park- und Gartenseite hin ein rechtwinklig angebauter Seitenfluegel einen breiten Schatten erst auf einen weiss und gruen quadrierten Fliesengang und dann ueber diesen hinaus auf ein grosses, in seiner Mitte

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The American

Henry James, William C. Spengemann · 459 pages

A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.

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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 555 pages

Three great swordsmen, Porthos, Aramis, and Anthos, with their protege, D'Artagnan, match wits with the sinister Cardinal Richelieu who seeks to divide the royalty in his own quest for power.

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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 332 pages

Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne, veuf d'une mégère, fait lors d'une tournée la rencontre du père Rouault et de sa fille, Emma. Après leur mariage, Emma reste insatisfaite et rêve d'une nouvelle vie. Son premier amant lui donne le goût du luxe et fait miroiter un avenir à deux avant de l'abandonner. Une fois remise, Emma continue à faire de folles dépenses, qui peu à peu la mènent à la ruine et

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Bel-Ami

Guy de Maupassant · 303 pages

.I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache d'un geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dineurs attardes un regard rapide et circulaire, un de ces regards de joli garcon qui s'etendent comme des coups d'epervier. Les fe

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

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Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile

Francoise Sagan · 251 pages

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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 384 pages

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the Fr

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The Glimpses of the Moon

Edith Wharton · 284 pages

“The Glimpses of the Moon” is a romance story. Nick and Susy are the main characters and have no money. They belong to a society of wealthy people, and they plan to get married to better themselves financially from the wedding with the gifts they will receive.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook h

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