The Hated Son
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About This Book
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
Chapters (13)
- THE HATED SON
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- THE HATED SON
- THE HATED SON
- PART I. HOW THE MOTHER LIVED
- CHAPTER I. A BEDROOM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER II. THE BONESETTER
- CHAPTER III. THE MOTHER’S LOVE
- PART II. HOW THE SON DIED
- CHAPTER IV. THE HEIR
- CHAPTER V. GABRIELLE
- CHAPTER VI. LOVE
- CHAPTER VII. THE CRUSHED PEARL
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