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Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. Part I. Apr 28, 2023

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Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous 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 patterns. Flaubert was notoriously perfectionist about his writing and claimed to always be searching for le mot juste (the right word). (From Wikipedia.)

Translated by Eleanor Aveling.

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The Sign of The Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part V. Apr 26, 2023

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The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. (From Wikipedia.)

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The Sign of The Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part IV. Apr 26, 2023

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The Sign of The Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part III. Apr 26, 2023

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The Sign of The Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part II. Apr 26, 2023

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The Sign of The Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Part I. Apr 26, 2023

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Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part V. Apr 24, 2023

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Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.

The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called "Àpropos of the Wet Snow," and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator.

Translated by Constance Garnett.

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Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part IV. Apr 24, 2023

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Translated by Constance Garnett.

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Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part III. Apr 24, 2023

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Translated by Constance Garnett.

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Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part II. Apr 24, 2023

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