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2) Dagon
4) Lady Susan
5) The stranger
10) Dom Casmurro
12) Nightmare alley
14) Salammbô
An historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. This book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. The Carthaginian costumes described therein even left traces on the fashions of the time. Nevertheless, in spite of its classic status in France, it
...These two novellas, set seventeen years apart, are both concerned with Seymour Glass—the eldest son of J. D. Salinger's fictional Glass family—as recalled by his closest brother, Buddy.
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19) Beatrix
A handsome young man named Calyste du Guénic is in love with the older woman, Félicité des Touches, a famous writer who uses the pen name of Camille Maupin. Félicité at first does not reciprocate Calyste’s feelings, and Calyste falls in love with the blonde marchioness Béatrix de Rochefide. Béatrix is a beautiful but selfish woman; one critic remarked in 1897 in regards to Béatrix that “for cold-blooded cruelty and vulgarity she is
...20) The Willows
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