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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his

The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploit

Guy de Maupassants scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is t

Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this

Honore de Balzac lived most of his life one step from his creditors; his house in Paris even had a special exit