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His Excellency by Emile Zola
The twenty volumes in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series are set in France during the period 1851-1873, and the novels trace the fortunes of various members of the two branches of the same family. Th… more →
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His Excellency by Emile Zola
Anomie wrote 3 weeks ago: The twenty volumes in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series are set in France during the period 1851-1 … more →
Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Emile Zola
Anomie wrote 6 months ago: “There is nothing of you that you have not given to me.” The twenty volumes in Zola … more →
The Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola
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Anomie wrote 11 months ago: She felt a pleasure in his harshness.That iron hand which bent her, and which held her back upon the … more →
The Fat and The Thin by Emile Zola
Anomie wrote 12 months ago: “Those colossal markets and their teeming odoriferous masses of food had hastened the crisis. … more →
Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac
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Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “the depths of the human heart.” Colonel Chabert is the story of a soldier–a great … more →
With the Flow & Mr. Bougran's Retirement by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “Every condition has its anxieties and hassles.” The novella With the Flow by Huysmans f … more →
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “Not for years had he stuffed and swilled with such abandon.” The sole descendant of t … more →
For a Night of Love by Emile Zola
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “Destiny seemed to him illogical and unjust.” For a Night of Love contains three short s … more →
Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “The vile secret.” Sibling rivalry is at the heart of the novella Pierre Et Jean by Guy … more →
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “Fools call such things vices” In the novel Pere Goriot the shabby residents of the Ma … more →
Ursule Mirouet by Honore de Balzac
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Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “If ever I have them in my power … I’ll bleed them white.” The novel Ursul … more →
The Kill by Emile Zola
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “He truly feared that some night she might go mad in his arms. In her, the remorse, the fear o … more →
The Wrong Side of Paris by Honore de Balzac
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: ”So does an angel find vengeance.” The theme of Balzac’s novel The Wrong Side of … more →
Parisian Sketches by J. K Huysmans
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “The vice-squad threatens.” Parisian Sketches is a colourful collection of essays by the … more →
Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “Never was a vice more punished by itself.” Balzac is one of my favourite writers, so it … more →
A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “What she now felt was a kind of isolation.” When A Woman’s Life begins, Jeanne … more →
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “Love and vengeance hunting together will always strike down their prey” Revenge is the … more →
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “I won’t be a servant.” Stendhal’s novel The Red and the Black is set in pos … more →
The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
Anomie wrote 1 year ago: “And vulgar, ignoble farce was turned into a great historical drama.” The twenty volumes … more →
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