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A character guide
Illusions perdues
Honoré de Balzac
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A character guide
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Charlotte Brontë and F. H. (Frederick Henry) Townsend
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A character guide
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A character guide
L’Assommoir
Émile Zola
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A character guide
L’Avare
Molière
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A character guide
L’Éducation sentimentale
Gustave Flaubert
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A character guide
L’Étranger
Albert Camus
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A character guide
L’Île mystérieuse
Jules Verne
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A character guide
L’Ingénu
Voltaire
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A character guide
La Bête humaine
Émile Zola
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