French Novelists
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Quand j'étais vieux
Autobiographical tightropes
De l'amour
Marcel Proust
Ein Winter auf Mallorca
The book of pity and of death
Flaubert's Parrot
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Proust
Marcel Proust
La bâtarde
Madame Bovary
Childhood
Jules Verne
Proust in love
Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903
Lazare
Windows on the World
The letters of Gustave Flaubert, selected, edited, and translated by Francis Steegmuller
Marcel Proust
Pierre Loti
Mémoires intimes
Correspondance entre George Sand et Gustave Flaubert
Letters of Marcel Proust
Lélia
Marcel Proust
The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert
Antimémoires
The Family Idiot
Prométhée, ou, La vie de Balzac
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