A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2
To the Close of the 19th Century
The second volume of George Saintsbury's History of the French Novel, published in 1919, covers the nineteenth century. It begins with Madame de Staël and Chateaubriand and the minor novelists of the early decades, among them Paul de Kock and Nodier, and gives full chapters to Victor Hugo, to Stendhal and Balzac together, and to George Sand. Saintsbury then turns to the novelists of style, Gautier, Mérimée, Nerval, Musset and Vigny, to the elder and younger Dumas, to Flaubert, and to the rise of naturalism with the Goncourts and their successors. He writes as an enthusiastic reader with firm opinions, and his digressions are often the best part. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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