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Pere Goriot is a story of French society, money , power, ambition, and love. Balzac creates an intricate plot full of colorful descriptions and exaggerated drama. ★★★★+ Read Review
Volume IV of Proust’s epic masterpiece; In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah is the continued saga of French society. A subtle shift in social standards gradually opens the doors of aristocratic homes to the bourgeois. Marcel in love, in mourning, in shock to discover the great Baron de Charlus is gay. ★★★★ Read Review
Volume III of Proust’s extraordinary series In Search of Lost Time; The Guermantes Way – leads the reader up the exclusive ladder of French high society to mingle with Dukes and Duchesses, Princes and Princesses. ★★★★★ Read Review
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time series is in a class all of it’s own…. the most beautiful prose I have ever read. Swann’s Way begins this semi-autobiographical journey that takes you right to the heart of French Society. ★★★★★ Read Review
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