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A French 19th Century Literature Sampler
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Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics) by Guy de Maupassant
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Walk the grand boulevards with a flaneur
Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions) by Honoré de Balzac
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It's all about money, n'est-ce pas?
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (Penguin Classics)Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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Flaubert trolling for women on the Nile
Collected Poems (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Each Poem (Parallel Text, Penguin) (French and English Edition)Collected Poems (Rimbaud, Arthur): Parallel Text Edition with Plain Prose Translations of Each Poem (Parallel Text, Penguin) (French and English Edition) by Arthur Rimbaud
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Outrageous but brilliant poet whose life was truly "A Season in Hell"
Red & the Black, The (Everyman's Library)Red & the Black, The (Everyman's Library) by Stendhal
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It's all about ambition, n'est-ce pas?
The Belly of Paris (El-E-Phant, 57)The Belly of Paris (El-E-Phant, 57) by Emile Zola
It's all about food, n'est-ce pas?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet classics)The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Signet classics) by Victor Hugo
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Reinventing the Middle Ages
The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics)The Count of Monte Cristo (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père
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Diabolical revenge!
Against Nature (Oxford World's Classics)Against Nature (Oxford World's Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Let's all be decadent together
From the Earth to the Moon (Bantam Classics)From the Earth to the Moon (Bantam Classics) by Jules Verne
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The century's over. Let's split!
Baudelaire: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)Baudelaire: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Charles Baudelaire
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Flowers of more decadence
The Wild Ass's Skin (Penguin Classics)The Wild Ass's Skin (Penguin Classics) by Honoré de Balzac
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Wanna make a wish? Reconsider!
In the Land of PainIn the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet
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Alphonse Daudet's long slow death of syphilis - very powerful
Atala / ReneAtala / Rene by François-René de Chateaubriand
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Personally, I prefer the steak of the same name, but these stories were incredibly popular in their time
Adolphe (Penguin Classics)Adolphe (Penguin Classics) by Benjamin Constant
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Another incredibly popular early 19th century work I didn't like