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Tartuffe – Jean Baptiste Molière
Tartuffe – Jean Baptiste Molière – 1664 Reviewed by: Lale I would love to see Tartuffe on stage. I can imagine how hilarious it would be. There are a couple of scenes so comical that even on paper they look very fun...
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The School for Wives – Jean Baptiste Molière
The School for Wives – Jean Baptiste Molière – 1662 Reviewed by: Lale Arnolphe! Even in the 17th century nobody should be so out-of-touch! And you Horace! Your recounts of your love life to Arnolphe make Monica Lewi...
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The Hypochondriac -Jean Baptiste Molière
The Hypochondriac – Jean Baptiste Molière – 1673 Reviewed by: Lale The Hypochondriac is my favourite Molière play. I recommend this play to anyone who is or has ever been ill (real or imaginary). Argan loves to be s...
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The Miser – Jean Baptiste Molière
The Miser – Jean Baptiste Molière – 1668 Reviewed by: Lale The Miser (l’avare) is about a stingy, greedy, miserable man who cannot love anything other than money, not even his own children. But that doesn̵...
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The Misanthrope – Jean Baptiste Molière
The Misanthrope – Jean Baptiste Molière – 1666 Reviewed by: Lale The Misanthrope starts with an amusing clash of two friends which reveals, with no room for mistake, the personality and philosophy of Alceste, the mi...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Reviewed by: Lale Notre-dame of Paris is a majestic structure, beautifully decorated in minute detail, constructed on Ile de la Cité, the little island on Seine, where first Paris had been founded. Someone had to write a novel...
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The Red Lily – Anatole France
The Red Lily – Anatole France – 1898 Reviewed by: Jason Tomes Date: 10 September 2004 With its Late Romantic emphasis on passion and beauty, “The Red Lily” is very much a novel of its time (the 1890...
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Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert – 1869 Posted by Lale on 20/7/2005, 16:16:08 I have a copy presented and annotated by Pierre-Marc de Biasi (Le livre de poche – Classiques de poche). Now this version h...
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Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – 1857 Posted by Lale on 20/03/2007 This is one of my five star books. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest novels ever written. There are many reviews and analyses of it on ...
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The Lady of the Camellias – Alexandre Dumas Fils
The Lady of the Camellias – Alexandre Dumas Fils – 1848 Reviewed by: Yin Zhou Date: 14 September 2001 I read Dumas’ La Dame aux Camelias this summer, and I dare say it is the most heart-warming yet tear...
