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Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus by Katherine Elkins

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Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus

Author
Katherine Elkins
Narrator
Katherine Elkins
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Publish Date
9 April 2010
Run Time
8 hours 31 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Literature: history and criticism, Biography: writers
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In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Camus' The Stranger. Literary immortals all, these authors produced works that reflected their times and exerted a continuing and lasting influence on all the generations that followed.

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Author
Katherine Elkins
Narrator
Katherine Elkins
Duration
8 hours 31 minutes
Release Date
9 April 2010
ISBN
9781440790621
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Genre
Literature: history and criticism, Biography: writers

Synopsis

In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. With keen insight into her subject material, Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human Comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Camus' The Stranger. Literary immortals all, these authors produced works that reflected their times and exerted a continuing and lasting influence on all the generations that followed.

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