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Nobody writes to the Colonel. One hundred years of solitude
Габриэль Гарсина Маркес
The collection of one of the largest contemporary writers of Latin America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (born in 1928), includes the novella "No one writes to the Colonel" and the famous novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which are plot-related. The novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a broad epic canvas based on a combination of historical reality with fairy—tale, folk fiction. The novel reflects the history of Colombia and Latin America in the X IX — early XX century.
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The Outcasts
Victor Hugo
The halo of romanticism covers all the works of the great French poet, novelist and playwright Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885). The idea of life–giving love, mercy, the triumph of good over evil is the core of his novel Les Miserables. Among the "Outcasts" are Jean Valjean, who was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for stealing bread for his starving family, and the little dirty Cosette, who turned into a charming girl, and the child of the Parisian streets of Gavroche…
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When the King destroys France
Maurice Druon
The seventh novel by the French writer Maurice Druon from the series "The Cursed Kings".
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Mont-Oriol
Ги де Мопассан
The novel "Mont Oriol" (1886) is the first example of a psychological novel in the work of the greatest French writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893).
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Three vagabonds from Trinidad
Francis Bret Harte
The collection "Three vagabonds from Trinidad" includes the so-called "California" stories by Bret Garth, which are considered the pinnacle of his work.
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