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Gobseck by Honoré de Balzac
Gobseck is an 1830 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. -
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. -
Le Père Goriot by Honorè de Balzac
Le Père Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie Parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. -
Facts about Mark Twain
When he was 9 years old he saw a local man murder a cattle rancher. -
Facts about Mark Twain
At 10 he watched a slave die after a white overseer struck him with a piece of iron. -
Facts about Mark Twain
In 1851, at 15, he got a job as a printer and occasional writer and editor at the Hannibal Western Union, a little newspaper owned by his brother, Orion. -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece and was published in 1856 -
Facts about Mark Twain
Then, in 1857, 21-year-old Clemens fulfilled a dream: He began learning the art of piloting a steamboat on the Mississippi. -
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York. -
Facts about realism
America was leaping into a new modern age and people feared that local folkways and traditions would be soon forgotten. Responding to these sentiments, realistic writers set their stories in specific American regions, rushing to capture the "local color" before it was lost. -
Facts about Mark Twain
Then he joined the Confederate Army in June 1861, but serving for only a couple of weeks until his volunteer unit disbanded. -
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is a novel by George Eliot. Her third novel, it was first published in 1861. -
Facts about realism
The US Civil War between the industrial North and the agricultural, slave-owning South influenced the rise of realism literature. -
Facts about Mark Twain
By the middle of 1862, he was flat broke and in need of a regular job. -
Facts about Mark Twain
He got a big break in 1865, when one of his tales about life in a mining camp, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," was printed in newspapers and magazines around the country (the story later appeared under various titles). -
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education was a novel by Gustave Flaubert, and is considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, being praised by contemporaries George Sand, Emile Zola, and Henry James and was published in 1869 -
Facts about Mark Twain
In February 1870, he improved his social status by marrying 24-year-old Olivia (Livy) Langdon, the daughter of a rich New York coal merchant. -
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans and was published in 1874. -
Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St. Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived. -
Facts about realism
The sweeping economic, social, and political changes that took place in post-war life allowed American Realism to prevail. The realism of the 1880s featured the works of Twain, Howells and James among other writers. American Realists concentrated their writing on select groups or subjects. -
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. -
Bouvard et pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. -
Huck Finn was published
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. -
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.