French Literature: Realism, romance, and revolution

The grandeur of French letters — Hugo and Dumas, Balzac and Flaubert, Maupassant and Zola — the tradition that perfected the realist novel.

In this collection

• The Chair Mender
• Simon's Papa
• Words of Love
• Honoré De Balzac
• The Sign
• Thérèse Raquin
• The Kiss
• Who Knows?
• Letter Found on a Drowned Man
• Guillemot Rock
• The Girl with the Golden Eyes
• An Artifice
• The Mountebanks
• Old Mongilet
• The Moribund
• The Patron
• Juana
• Indiscretion
• Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims
• The Moustache
• Discovery
• Bel-Ami (a Ladies' Man)
• The Flood
• The Inn
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