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different rooms and levels.
A truly amazing book, way ahead of its time for a novel written in the nineteenth century. Shows a deep understanding of human nature, and the many characters really come to life as we journey back with Etienne to Northern France during a time of political change and social unrest.
he looked pink himself for his sixty years, with his strong features and an honest, kindly face wreathed in curls of snowy white hair. He had
and good-for-nothing lads busy
‘What I’m going to do is to stick by my friends, even
dishevelled hair bundled hastily under a black scarf and carrying a sleeping Estelle on her arm; and she kept repeating with
earn a lot of money with smooth talk. Étienne had now got as far as Darwin.1 He had read this and that, as summarized for a popular audience in a volume costing five sous; and on the basis of his
