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1	George Sand: A Biography more books like this by Curtis Cate see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Flaubert: A Biography more books like this by Professor Frederick Brown In this riveting landmark biography, Brown illuminates the life and career of the author of "Madame Bovary," shedding light on not only the novelist but also his milieu--the Paris and Normandy of the revolution of 1848 and of the Second Empire. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Balzac more books like this by Stefan Zweig Este libro monumental, publicado por primera vez en 1920, no es solo la obra maestra de Stefan Zweig, la mejor demostracion posible del fervor que sentia por el gran Honore de Balzac, sino tambien una novela fascinante que descubre al lector no solo el trabajo, la lucha, el esfuerzo y el desafio del genio, sino tambien sus debilidades. Tras esta ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.44! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Marcel Proust: A Biography more books like this by George Painter With "A la Recherche du Tempes Perdu" Proust achieved a rendering of life in art, of the past recreated through memory. This is a scholarly biography of the renowned French novelist. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
5	Victor Hugo more books like this by Graham Robb A biography of Victor Hugo, discussing the man and his work. Hugo is the author of "Les Miserables" and the creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame. He came to symbolize the revolution in French literature which overthrew the structures of classicism for the Romanticism of the late-19th century. see all copies from $2.31! new only from $34.97! \| first editions
6	The Marquis de Sade: A Life more books like this by Neil Schaeffer Even during his lifetime, the real Marquis de Sade was in danger of being subsumed by his myth, and in the two centuries since his death his name has become a synonym for perversion, brutality and desirous cruelty. Neil Schaeffer's subtle and revealing biography peels away layers of misconception and legend to reveal the complex psychology of a ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $12.21! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Stendhal; or, The pursuit of happiness more books like this by Matthew Josephson "When Freud read Stendhal's memoirs of his childhood and adolescence he called them 'a manifestation of psychological genius.U Stendhal, he saw, had been a Freudian some 70 years before Freud himself."--"Time" magazine (1946). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Feminine and the Sacred more books like this by Catherine Clément, Julia Kristeva In November 1996, Catherine Clement and Julia Kristeva began a correspondence exploring the subject of the sacred. In this collection of those letters, Catherine Clement approaches the topic from an anthropologist's point of view while Julia Kristeva responds from a psychoanalytic perspective. Their correspondence leads them to a controversial and ... see all copies from $11.59! new only from $37.63! \| first editions
9	Lelia: The Life of George Sand more books like this by Andre Maurois, Gerard Hopkins (Translator) see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	Simenon: A Biography more books like this by Pierre Assouline This is the biography of Georges Simenon, the creator of Inspector Maigret and one of the most widely read genre writers of all time. By the age of 22 he was writing 3 novels a month, and by his death Simenon had produced nearly 400, as well as 25 autobiographical books and innumerable stories, although his overriding inspiration in writing was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait more books like this by Francis Steegmuller Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, ... see all copies from $2.73! new only from $10.17! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Proust: A Biography more books like this by Ronald Hayman An accessible account of the life and work of one of the century's greatest and most singular writers (1871-1922), drawing on letters, memoirs, manuscripts, and critical work not explored in previous biographies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.--Book News see all copies from $1.99! new only from $78.29! \| first editions
13	Marcel Proust: A Life more books like this by Professor William C Carter This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust's character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time (long known in English ... see all copies from $8.45! new only from $45.84! \| first editions
14 view cover	George Sand more books like this by Ms. Elizabeth Harlan George Sand was the most famous, and the most scandalous, woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific: she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $10.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The World of Marcel Proust more books like this by Andre Maurois see all copies from $5.00! new only from $49.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	La Batarde more books like this by Leduc An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When first published, La Batarde earned Violette Leduc ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Georges Bernanos: A Study of the Man and the Writer more books like this by Robert Speaight see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	The life of Henry Brulard more books like this by Stendhal A new translation of one of the greatest autobiographies of the French 19th century by the author of "Le Rouge et le Noir". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand more books like this by George Sand, pse see all copies from $10.99! new only from $47.00!
20 view cover	Stendhal more books like this by Jonathan Keates When he died in Paris in 1842 at the age of 59, Henri Marie Beyle - the author known as Stendhal - was underestimated and largely ignored even in his own country, despite the fact that his novels are now famous throughout the world. This biography traces his life from his early days in Grenoble through to his later time in Paris and Italy, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Flaubert, a Life more books like this by Geoffrey Wall How is it that Flaubert, the last of the great French romantics, still seems so incredibly modern? In this biography, Geoffrey Wall investigates why it is that the author of Madame Bovary still exerts such a hold upon our imaginations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.10! \| first editions
22 view cover	A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal more books like this by Mr. Robert Alter see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters more books like this by George Sand, pse George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804 -1876). She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. Her first published novel, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.72! \| first editions \| SVS
24	The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Siecle France more books like this by Willa Z Silverman This biography evokes the life and times of the late 19th-century French novelist, journalist, caricaturist and nationalist political militant known pseudonymously as Gyp. Gyp (Sibylle-Gabrielle Marie-Antoinette de Riqueti de Mirabeau, Comtesse de Martel de Janville) was famous at the turn of the century as a prolific writer of satirical novels in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Volume 1 more books like this by Jean-Paul Sartre, Carol Cosman (Translator) That Sartre's study of Flaubert, "The Family Idiot," is a towering achievement in intellectual history has never been disputed. Yet critics have argued about the precise nature of this novel, or biography, or "criticism-fiction" which is the summation of Sartre's philosophical, social, and literary thought. Sartre writes, simply, in the preface to ... see all copies from $12.00! first editions

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