19th century

Sentimental Education, published in 1869, has officially become my favourite Gustave Flaubert's nov.....
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Ivan Goncharov's eponymous novel Oblomov sheds light on a thirty-two-year-old Russian man living in.....
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"I have always held, too, that pistol practice should distinctly be an open-air pastime; and when H.....
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Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula and help him finalise t.....
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Five men and a dog steal a hot air balloon during a stormy night to escape the confederate army tha.....
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Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant is about the irresistible ascension of Georges Duroy, a provincial man.....
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