'If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and
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This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his
This collection of three tales, "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian," and "Herodias" offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. In settings as familiar to the
