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The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)

by Albert Camus ...

The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting ... Read more

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The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting
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« Nicolas Le Floch », le Tableau de Paris de Jean-François Parot

by Pascale Arizmendi ...

Series series Études
Au fil des enquêtes de Nicolas Le Floch, J.-F. Parot met en scène la capitale française dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Historien de formation, il fonde son récit sur une documentation très diverse et exceptionnellement fournie. Il restitue donc une image fidèle de ce que fut le Paris des Lumières, allant jusqu’à faire entendre - par le jeu de l’intertextualité - la parole de ses ... Read more

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Au fil des enquêtes de Nicolas Le Floch, J.-F. Parot met en scène la capitale française dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle. Historien de formation, il fonde son récit sur une documentation très diverse et exceptionnellement fournie. Il restitue donc une image fidèle de ce que fut le Paris des Lumières, allant jusqu’à faire entendre - par le jeu de l’intertextualité - la parole de ses
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La Bête humaine

Translated by Roger Pearson ...

by Émile Zola ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he ... Read more

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Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he
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Jane Eyre (French Edition)

by Charlotte Brontë ...

"Jane Eyre" est l'un des romans les plus célèbres de Charlotte Brontë, offrant une exploration profonde de l'amour, de la justice, et de la recherche de l'identité personnelle. Suivez l'histoire fascinante de Jane Eyre, une orpheline courageuse et indépendante, qui traverse des épreuves pour trouver sa place dans l'Angleterre victorienne. Ce récit gothique, rempli de mystère et de passion, est ... Read more

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"Jane Eyre" est l'un des romans les plus célèbres de Charlotte Brontë, offrant une exploration profonde de l'amour, de la justice, et de la recherche de l'identité personnelle. Suivez l'histoire fascinante de Jane Eyre, une orpheline courageuse et indépendante, qui traverse des épreuves pour trouver sa place dans l'Angleterre victorienne. Ce récit gothique, rempli de mystère et de passion, est
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50 Masterpieces you have to read

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!NovelsAlcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel: ... Read more

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This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!NovelsAlcott, Louisa May: Little WomenAusten, Jane: Pride and PrejudiceAusten, Jane: EmmaBalzac, Honoré de: Father GoriotBarbusse, Henri: The InfernoBrontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell HallBrontë, Charlotte: Jane EyreBrontë, Emily: Wuthering HeightsBurroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the ApesButler, Samuel:
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The Trouble with Being Born

by E. M. Cioran ...

Translated by Richard Howard ...

In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and ... Read more

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In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and
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The Belly of Paris

Translated by Brian Nelson ...

by Émile Zola ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
'Respectable people... What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. ... Read more

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'Respectable people... What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets.
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Mémoires de John Tanner

by John Tanner ...

Extrait :Le premier événement de ma vie, que je me rappelle distinctement, est la mort de ma mère. J’avais deux ans, et plusieurs circonstances de cette perte firent sur moi une impression si forte qu’elles sont présentes encore à mon souvenir ; je ne retrouve pas dans ma mémoire le nom du lieu que nous habitions ; on m’a dit que c’était au bord de la rivière de Kentucky, fort loin de l’Ohio.John ... Read more

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Extrait :Le premier événement de ma vie, que je me rappelle distinctement, est la mort de ma mère. J’avais deux ans, et plusieurs circonstances de cette perte firent sur moi une impression si forte qu’elles sont présentes encore à mon souvenir ; je ne retrouve pas dans ma mémoire le nom du lieu que nous habitions ; on m’a dit que c’était au bord de la rivière de Kentucky, fort loin de l’Ohio.John
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Estudiar «La Peste»

Análisis de pasajes clave de la novela de Albert Camus

by Gloria Lauzanne ...

Análisis de pasajes clave de la novela de Albert Camus La Peste. ... Read more

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Análisis de pasajes clave de la novela de Albert Camus La Peste.
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Pompéi, la vie de province dans l’empire romain

by Gaston Boissier ...

Nous savons très bien de quelle manière on passait le temps à Rome. Les anciens auteurs sont pleins, à ce sujet, de renseignemens curieux. On peut, avec les lettres de Cicéron, refaire la journée d’un homme d’état. Les satires d’Horace nous peignent au naturel l’existence d’un flâneur dont l’occupation principale consiste à se promener au Forum ou le long de la Voie-Sacrée, à regarder les joueurs ... Read more

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Nous savons très bien de quelle manière on passait le temps à Rome. Les anciens auteurs sont pleins, à ce sujet, de renseignemens curieux. On peut, avec les lettres de Cicéron, refaire la journée d’un homme d’état. Les satires d’Horace nous peignent au naturel l’existence d’un flâneur dont l’occupation principale consiste à se promener au Forum ou le long de la Voie-Sacrée, à regarder les joueurs
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I Will Write to Avenge My People

The Nobel Lecture

by Annie Ernaux ...

Translated by Alison L. Strayer ...

**Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux.The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 was awarded to Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”**«J’écrirai por venger ma race»It was ... Read more

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**Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux.The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 was awarded to Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”**«J’écrirai por venger ma race»It was
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L'Instauration du tableau : Métapeinture à l'aube des temps modernes. Seconde édition revue et corrigée

by Victor I. Stoichita ...

Series series Titre courant
Le présent ouvrage, consacré à l'apparition du tableau, a pour objectif de rendre visible le processus par lequel le travail métapictural a fondé la condition moderne de l'art. Il interroge également le statut du tableau en tant qu'objet figuratif "moderne". Cette étude traite du statut de l'image peinte en Europe occidentale entre 1522, année de la révolte iconoclaste de Wittemberg, et 1675 ... Read more

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Le présent ouvrage, consacré à l'apparition du tableau, a pour objectif de rendre visible le processus par lequel le travail métapictural a fondé la condition moderne de l'art. Il interroge également le statut du tableau en tant qu'objet figuratif "moderne". Cette étude traite du statut de l'image peinte en Europe occidentale entre 1522, année de la révolte iconoclaste de Wittemberg, et 1675
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In Search of Lost Time [Vol. 1 - 7]

by Marcel Proust ...

Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
In Search of Lost Time ,or Remembrance of Things PastVol.1 - Swann's WayVol.2 - Within a Budding GroveVol.3 - The Guermantes WayVol.4 - Cities on the PlainVol.5 - The CaptiveVol.6 - The Sweet Cheat GoneVol.7 - Time RegainedIn Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) - or Remembrance of Things Past - is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871 -1922). His most prominent ... Read more

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In Search of Lost Time ,or Remembrance of Things PastVol.1 - Swann's WayVol.2 - Within a Budding GroveVol.3 - The Guermantes WayVol.4 - Cities on the PlainVol.5 - The CaptiveVol.6 - The Sweet Cheat GoneVol.7 - Time RegainedIn Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) - or Remembrance of Things Past - is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871 -1922). His most prominent
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A Short History of Decay

by E. M. Cioran ...

Translated by Richard Howard ...

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient ... Read more

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E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient
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Balzac: Oeuvres complètes

Édition mise à jour et corrigée avec sommaire interne actif

by Honoré de Balzac ...

Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres complètes de Balzac. L'édition est méticuleusement éditée et formatée. Honoré de Balzac est un des maîtres incontestés du roman français dont il a abordé plusieurs genres : le roman historique et politique, avec Les Chouans, le roman philosophique avec Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, le roman fantastique avec La Peau de chagrin ou encore le roman poétique avec Le ... Read more

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Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres complètes de Balzac. L'édition est méticuleusement éditée et formatée. Honoré de Balzac est un des maîtres incontestés du roman français dont il a abordé plusieurs genres : le roman historique et politique, avec Les Chouans, le roman philosophique avec Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, le roman fantastique avec La Peau de chagrin ou encore le roman poétique avec Le
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Madame Bovary

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by Gustave Flaubert ...

Series series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who hasadulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden ... Read more

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Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who hasadulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden
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The Last Love of George Sand

A Literary Biography

by Evelyne Bloch-Dano ...

George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver ... Read more

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George Sand is one the most celebrated writers and controversial personalities of nineteenth-century France; she is as famous for her bohemian lifestyle as for her written work. The Last Love of George Sand portrays the writer, political activist, and cultural figure as she starts a new chapter in her ever-surprising life: the mature years with her last lover, the young and talented engraver
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The Temptation to Exist

by E. M. Cioran ...

Translated by Richard Howard ...

This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. ... Read more

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This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard.
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Montaigne

by Stefan Zweig ...

Translated by Will Stone ...

Series series Pushkin Collection
**“One of my favorite books.” —Ryan Holiday, *New York Times-*bestselling author and podcaster of The Daily StoicThis classic biography of Michel de Montaigne—the Renaissance philosopher and a founding father of humanism—is a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom and tolerance.**Written by one of the 20th century’s most popular authors during WWII, Montaigne is a passionate ... Read more

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**“One of my favorite books.” —Ryan Holiday, *New York Times-*bestselling author and podcaster of The Daily StoicThis classic biography of Michel de Montaigne—the Renaissance philosopher and a founding father of humanism—is a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom and tolerance.**Written by one of the 20th century’s most popular authors during WWII, Montaigne is a passionate
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Illuminations

Essays and Reflections

by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...

Translated by Henry Zohn ...

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

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Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic
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Dangerous Liaisons

by Choderlos de Laclos ...

Translated by Helen Constantine ...

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an ... Read more

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Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce an
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Ensemble, c'est tout d'Anna Gavalda (Analyse de l'oeuvre)

Roman touchant sur la solitude, l’amitié et la famille choisie à Paris. Parfait pour les lecteurs de littérature française contemporaine.

by Cécile Perrel, Emmanuelle Cubadda, lePetitLitteraire ...

Series series Fiche de lecture
Ensemble, c'est tout - Anna GavaldaQuatre âmes brisées. Un appartement parisien. Une famille qui se choisit.Dans les beaux quartiers de Paris, quatre destins que tout oppose vont se croiser et transformer à jamais leurs existences solitaires. Camille, jeune femme sans domicile fixe, survit à peine dans une chambre de bonne glaciale. Philibert, aristocrate bègue et inadapté au monde moderne, vit ... Read more

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Ensemble, c'est tout - Anna GavaldaQuatre âmes brisées. Un appartement parisien. Une famille qui se choisit.Dans les beaux quartiers de Paris, quatre destins que tout oppose vont se croiser et transformer à jamais leurs existences solitaires. Camille, jeune femme sans domicile fixe, survit à peine dans une chambre de bonne glaciale. Philibert, aristocrate bègue et inadapté au monde moderne, vit
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J’ai tué

by Blaise Cendrars, Xavier Jacob ...

Considéré dans ce texte: L’horreur inhumaine de la Première Guerre mondiale. Le froid, la boue et les cadavres ridicules. Le martèlement des obus, les campagnes dévastées, la mer phosphorescente des tranchées. L’engagement du poète, quand il ne se tient pas à bonne distance du monde. ... Read more

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Considéré dans ce texte: L’horreur inhumaine de la Première Guerre mondiale. Le froid, la boue et les cadavres ridicules. Le martèlement des obus, les campagnes dévastées, la mer phosphorescente des tranchées. L’engagement du poète, quand il ne se tient pas à bonne distance du monde.
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Les Misérables

[Special Illustrated Edition] [Annotated with Criticisms and Interpretations] [Free Audio Links]

by Victor Hugo, Isabel F. Hapgood ...

Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, which can be translated from the French as The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims. ... Read more

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Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, which can be translated from the French as The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, or The Victims.
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