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L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge comme[...]texte imprimé
Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway emplo[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
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After his three-year exile to England (1726-9) following imprisonment in the Bastille for his satirical writings, Voltaire wrote a series of letters offering the French public a panoramic view of English culture. He was full of enthusiasm and fr[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
Que faut-il retenir de Manon Lescaut, le roman au parfum de scandale de la littérature française ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette oeuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette f[...]texte imprimé
Maupassant, Guy de, Auteur ; Leonard Tancock, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1979The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy. But when a lawyer arrives at the house of their parents, to declare that an old family friend has bequeathed his entire fortune to Jea[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
Denis Diderot, Auteur ; Leonard Tancock, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1966Le Neveu de Rameau ou La Satire seconde est un dialogue écrit par Denis Diderot sans doute entre 1762 et 1773. Il s'agit d'une discussion à bâtons rompus entre Moi, le narrateur, philosophe, et Lui, Jean-François Rameau, neveu du célèbre composi[...]texte imprimé
Denis Diderot, Auteur ; Leonard Tancock, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1966Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot—of the triumvirate that dominated French letters in the eighteenth century, Diderot was unmatched in the sheer breadth and depth of his interests and ideas. Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream are dazzling exposés [...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sévigné (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. .texte imprimé
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his h[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
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Thérèse Raquin is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fameNouveautétexte imprimé
Thérèse Raquin is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fametexte imprimé
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, Auteur ; Leonard Tancock, Traducteur ; David Cohen, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1980