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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
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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
Gustave Flaubert, Auteur ; A. J. Krailsheimer, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1976Bouvard and Pécuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death i[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
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Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople , distinguished by its simplici[...]texte imprimé
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Auteur ; Maurice Cranston, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1984In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man wa[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
Honoré de Balzac ; Marion Ayton Crawford, Traducteur | London : Penguin Books | Penguin Classics | 1989Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, th[...]texte imprimé
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[...]texte imprimé
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
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Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. .texte imprimé
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. .Nouveautétexte imprimé
When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his happiness turns to bitter despair when he discovers that Manon is mercenary and immoral, and has [...]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[...]