Romance Literatures
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VendettaVendetta In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at...
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Study of a WomanStudy of a Woman The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly dressed; her confessor...
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Paz (La Fausse Maitresse)Paz (La Fausse Maitresse) In September, 1835, one of the richest heiresses of the faubourg Saint-Germain, Mademoiselle du Rouvre, the only daughter of the Marquis du Rouvre, married Comte Adam Mitgislas Laginski, a young Polish exile. We ask permission to write these Polish names...
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The Underground City; Or, The Black IndiesThe Underground City; Or, The Black Indies - (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern) The engineers curiosity was excited to the highest pitch. It never occurred to him to doubt whether this letter might not be a hoax. For many years he had...
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Madame FirmianiMadame Firmiani Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by those who narrate them, without their subjects losing any, even...
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The Country DoctorThe Country Doctor In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of Eugnie Grandet, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than in Le Mdecin de Campagne; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of...
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Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary SpaceOff on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Among so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Vernes remarkable works, his Off on a Comet must be given...
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An Old MaidAn Old Maid Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alencon, and doubtless the South possesses others. The...
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The Vicar of ToursThe Vicar of Tours Early in the autumn of 1826 the Abbe Birotteau, the principal personage of this history, was overtaken by a shower of rain as he returned home from a friends house, where he had been passing the evening. He therefore crossed,...
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The Secrets of the Princesse de CadignanThe Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused...
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BureaucracyBureaucracy In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when...
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The Magic SkinThe Magic Skin Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of...
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The Ball at SceauxThe Ball at Sceaux The Comte de Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the...
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The Firm of NucingenThe Firm of Nucingen You know how slight the partitions are between the private rooms of fashionable restaurants in Paris; Verys largest room, for instance, is cut in two by a removable screen. This Scene is not laid at Verys, but in snug quarters,...
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HerodiasHerodias In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At...
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SalammboSalammbo It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers whom he had commanded in Sicily were having a great feast to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx, and as the master was away, and they...
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Melmoth ReconciledMelmoth Reconciled There is a special variety of human nature obtained in the Social Kingdom by a process analogous to that of the gardeners craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-housea species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed...
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The Mysterious IslandThe Mysterious Island Are we rising again? No. On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For Heavens sake heave out the ballast! There! the last sack is empty! Does the balloon rise? No! I hear a noise like...
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Twenty Years AfterTwenty Years After In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind...
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Ten Years LaterTen Years Later In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in...
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