Who wrote the 1862 French novel featuring the character Cosette?
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Cosette (given name) Cosette is a feminine given name, is pronounced koh-ZETT. It is of French origin, is best known as the heroine of ""Les Misérables"" (1862) by Victor Hugo, Cosette was the nickname given to the girl named Euphrasie by her mother and Cosette.
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Les Misérables Les Misérables (] ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including "The Miserables", "The Wretched", "The Miserable Ones", "The Poor Ones", "The Wretched Poor", "The Victims" and "The Dispossessed". Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.
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Thérèse Desqueyroux (novel) Thérèse Desqueyroux (] ) is the most famous novel by François Mauriac.
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Rachilde Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
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Story of the Eye Story of the Eye (French: "L'histoire de l'oeil" ) is a 1928 novella by Georges Bataille that details the increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his exploits.
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Sylvie (novel) Sylvie (1853) is a novella by French Romanticist Gérard de Nerval. It was first published in the periodical "La Revue des Deux Mondes" in 1853, and as a book in "Les Filles du feu" in 1854, just a few months before Nerval killed himself in January 1855. "Sylvie" is often considered to be Nerval's prose masterpiece, and has been a favorite of Marcel Proust, André Breton, Joseph Cornell and Umberto Eco. Harold Bloom included it in "The Western Canon" (1994).
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The Abbot Constantine (novel) The Abbot Constantine (French:L'abbé Constantin) is an 1882 novel by the French writer Ludovic Halévy. In 1887 it was turned into a play by Pierre Decourcelle and Hector Crémieux.
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The Immoralist The Immoralist (French: L'Immoraliste ) is a novel by André Gide, published in France in 1902.
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Thérèse Raquin (character) Thérèse Raquin is a fictional character created by Émile Zola, first appeared in his own written novel "Thérèse Raquin", published in 1867.
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Zénaïde Fleuriot Zénaïde-Marie-Anne Fleuriot (28 October 1829 -19 December 1890), was a French novelist. She wrote eighty three novels, all aimed at young women, most of which were published in the series Bibliothèque rose and Bibliothèque bleue. Her writings were initially published under the pseudonym Anna Edianez, Edianez being an anagram of Zénaïde and Anna being derived from one of her own given names, Anne. She also wrote under the names Anna Edianez de Saint-B. and Anna Edianez de L.
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Henriette Guizot de Witt Henriette Guizot de Witt (1829 in Paris – 1908 in Paris), the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot and the wife of Conrad de Witt, was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot; to support family finances she composed some one hundred novels and educational texts of moralized history, such as "Légendes et récits pour la jeunesse" (1876), "Scènes historiques" (five series, 1875-85), "Les chroniques de l'histoire de France jusqu'au XIVe siècle" (4 volumes 1882-85). She also translated Shakespeare and Charles Dickens into French.
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Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (] ; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel, "Adolphe". He was a fervent liberal of the early 19th century, who influenced the Trienio Liberal movement in Spain, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 in Portugal, the Greek War of Independence, the November Uprising in Poland, the Belgian Revolution, and Liberalism in Brazil and Mexico.
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Eugène de Rastignac Eugène de Rastignac ] is a fictional character from "La Comédie humaine", a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in "Le Père Goriot" (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world depicted by Balzac can be followed through Rastignac's various appearances in other books of the series.
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Dans le ciel Dans le ciel (In the Sky) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau. First published in serialized installments in "L'Écho de Paris" between September 1892 and May 1893, "Dans le ciel", assembled and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet, first appeared its present form in 1989.
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Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne ( ; ] ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Beauchamp's Career Beauchamp's Career (1875) is a novel by George Meredith which portrays life and love in upper-class Radical circles and satirises the Conservative establishment. Meredith himself was inclined to think it his best novel, and the character Renée de Croisnel was his favourite of his creations. "The Penguin Companion to Literature" calls it "One of the finest political novels in English."
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Diary of a Chambermaid (2015 film) Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Journal d'une femme de chambre ) is a 2015 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot, and written by Jacquot and Hélène Zimmer. It is an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel of the same name and stars Léa Seydoux as Célestine, a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for a wealthy couple in France during the early twentieth century.
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Philippe Gille Philippe Emile François Gille (10 December 1831 – 19 March 1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's "Manon" and Delibes' "Lakmé".
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La Reine Margot (novel) La Reine Margot (English:Queen Margot) is a historical novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, père.
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A Battle of Nerves A Battle of Nerves (French: "La Tête d'un homme", also known as "A Man's Head") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year.
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Consuelo (novel) Consuelo is a novel by George Sand, first published serially in 1842-1843 in "La Revue indépendante", a periodical founded in 1841 by Sand, Pierre Leroux and Louis Viardot. According to "The Nuttall Encyclopædia", it is "[Sand's] masterpiece; the impersonation of the triumph of moral purity over manifold temptations."
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Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (] ), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, "Machado," or "Bruxo do Cosme Velho" (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. Widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, nevertheless he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime. He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek in later life.