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Few writers have been - simultaneously - political hero, intellectual master, and literary giant. But Emile Zola (1840-1902) was: his monumental ... More

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Marcel Proust is enjoying an enormous revival. Now he has at last found a biographer who himself once produced "the finest French novel written in ... More

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"Graham Robb tells the complicated story of this colossal life with authority and sympathy. . . . Unquestionably, a magnificent biography".-- ... More

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Consortium welcomes Outlines from Absolute Press, an impressive and mature series chronicling the lives of some of the most exceptional and ... More

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Some consider her journal writing to be Sand's most natural and expressive; certainly it is frank and open; she pours out her emotions.

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Hortense Allart provides a biography of the French feminist and Romantic writer from the nineteenth century. Allart was a close friend and ... More

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Maurice Ravel: A Life is the first convincing attempt to paint a portrait of the life and work of the hitherto enigmatic composer of Bolero, Piano ... More

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The life of Arthur Rimbaud remains as legendary as his poetic work. From the enigmatic poet's very first writings to his life as a wandering trader ... More

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In White's superb biography, Proust is shown in all his fascinating eccentricity--as the yearning, lonely boy, the dazzling wit, darling of Parisian ... More

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Kjetsaa tells the dramatic story of how Dostoyevsky, the son of an irascible minor aristocrat, rose rapidly to fame as a writer and just as rapidly ... More

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Four decades after his death, Albert Camus (1913-1960) is still regarded as one of the most influential intellectuals of this century. In Camus: ... More

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These selections from George Sand's journals form an integrated whole and show Sand as a woman, lover, mother, artist, politician, chatelaine, and ... More

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Catherine de' Medici (1518-89) is one of the most controversial of all historical figures. Wife of one French King and mother of three others she was ... More

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The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Western world. And ... More

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An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in ... More

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Aristocrat Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) remains a man whose name is instantly recognized but whose life is obscure. For all his reputation for ... More

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In the second remarkable volume of her life story, Leduc paints a vibrant picture of the brilliant minds around her--and the dark passions and ... More

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