The reading shelf
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A character guide
Boule de Suif
Guy de Maupassant
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A character guide
Bouvard et Pécuchet
Gustave Flaubert
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A character guide
Candide
Voltaire
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A character guide
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A character guide
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Constance Garnett
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A character guide
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
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A character guide
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
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A character guide
Dom Juan (Le Festin de pierre)
Molière
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A character guide
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and John Ormsby
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A character guide
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
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