A compelling translation of one of Zola's most powerful novels, the nineteenth work in his famous Rougon-Macquart series that traces the fortunes of a family over five generations.
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This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Nec ... Read more
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every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk th ... Read more
Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frederic Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For ov ... Read more
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Joris-Karl Huysmans; Margaret Mauldon; Nicholas White
Pages
272 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.'
As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in ... Read more
Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchm ... Read more
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Guy de Maupassant; Margaret Mauldon; Robert Lethbridge
Pages
368 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
Sep 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre
Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-A ... Read more
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If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?'
Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best o ... Read more
Carmen, Merimee's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. Like Carmen, the other stories in this book, i ... Read more
Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.'
Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscap ... Read more
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