Authors and Their Centuries |
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Baroque Perspectives on Molière | 41 |
La Bruyères Changing Perspective on | 65 |
Summing | 87 |
PigaultLebrun | 117 |
Some French Novelists and the Problems of Realism | 143 |
The Emergence of Jean Cocteau as Poet in the 1920s | 167 |
World War II and the French Novel | 191 |
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