Germinie Lacerteux by Leonard Tancock, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

170 pages first pub 1865 (editions)

fiction classics dark emotional slow-paced
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Orphaned at the age of four, Germinie Lacerteux is forced to enter service in Paris in order to pay her way, in a story that paints a vision of 19th-century Paris haunted by poverty, death, and despair. In the service of Mlle de Varandeuil, Germin...

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