Lot of 7 French Classics: Zola, Voltaire, Balzac
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Emile Zola was a French novelist, playwright, journalist who was an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. His novel Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series.
Voltaire, born Francois-Marie Arouet, was an 18th century French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. He is famous for using his witty style to attack the establishment of the Catholic Church, and to advocate freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and the separation of church and state. He is well known for the satiric novella Candide.
Honore de Balzac was a 19th century French novelist and playwright known as one of the founders of realism in European literature. His works often show an unfiltered representation of society and include multi-faceted characters. His novel Pere Goriot follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly Goriot; a mysterious criminal named Vautrin; and a naive law student named Eugene de Rastignac.
Description: The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a collection of novels written by 16th century French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist who was perhaps the leading and most influential writer of literary realism in his country. Madame Bovary is his first published novel and his best known work, telling the story of a doctor's wife trying to to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
Stendhal, the pen name for Marie-Henri Beyle, was a 19th-century French writer regarded for his innovative understanding of character psychology. His novel The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) tells the tale of a young man's social rise despite his modest upbringing.
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist of the 19th and early 20th century. He is best known for his monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, or "Swann's Way", which addresses the theme of involuntary memory.
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Lot of 7 French Classics: Zola, Voltaire, Balzac
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