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Colonel Chabert

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Honoré de Balzac



Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife,…

Elective Affinities

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) was Goethe's third novel. It depicts human relationships in a Romantic crucible, and is the s…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II

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François-René de Chateaubriand



Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III

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François-René de Chateaubriand



The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and …

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV

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François-René de Chateaubriand



After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V

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François-René de Chateaubriand



The memoirs of Chateaubriand continue in Volume 5, with the author, now a grand hommes des lettres, still in the thick of political events, …

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

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Samuel Pepys



Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

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Samuel Pepys



Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665

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Samuel Pepys



Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…

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