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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · English
In a New England village, stubborn convictions and family loyalties threaten affection, marriage and the possibility of reconciliation.
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · English
In a New England village, stubborn convictions and family loyalties threaten affection, marriage and the possibility of reconciliation.

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F. Marion Crawford · English
A young tenor’s musical ambitions and forbidden affection unfold through the recollections of the philosopher who raised him.

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Cooley explains how sympathy, selfhood and everyday relationships connect individual experience with the wider organization of society.

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Paul Bourget · French
Les fragments de Claude Larcher mêlent fiction, analyse morale et observations sur la jalousie, le désir et les relations amoureuses.
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Anthony Trollope · English
The opening Palliser novel, rich in courtship, politics, money, and difficult choices.

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Le roman fondateur des Rougon-Macquart: ambition familiale, coup d’État, province et naissance d’un empire.

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Jane Austen · English
A brilliant comedy of manners where first impressions, family pressure, and pride slowly give way to self-knowledge.

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William Blake · English
Blake’s illuminated poems contrast childhood vision with social cruelty, repression, and prophetic imagination.
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