I was pleased to discover all the books in this series have a release from Oxford World's Classics, most under 10 dollars, so i might read this major work this way instead of the delphi classics versions. It'd be great if Balzac's Human Comedy were to be in good translations too, like i mean the whole thing.
1. The Fortune of the Rougons
2. The Kill
3. The Belly of Paris
4. The Conquest of Plassans
5. His Excellency Eugène Rougon
6. The Sin of Abbé Mouret
7. The Assommoir
8. A Love Story
9. Nana
10. Pot Luck
11. The Ladies' Paradise
12. The Bright Side of Life
13. Germinal
14. The Masterpiece
15. Earth
16. The Dream
17. La Bête humaine
18. Money
19. La Débâcle
20. Doctor Pascal
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I’ve read Germinal, The Masterpiece and Nana, in translation. I wish my French was better.
He compares well with Trollope, and far superior to Dickens.
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@SW-User Dickens no slouch though, ty!
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@SW-User Dickens nearly put me off reading for life. I hate his verbose style and long sentences. I quickly turned to Hemingway.
