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  • Flaubert

    by Michel Winock ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    A "well-researched, elegantly written" study of the life and work of 19th-century French author Gustave Flaubert (Roger Pearson, University of Oxford).Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man (Mobi Classics)

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