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Young Germaine lives a life filled with high ideals of love, faith, and purity. The novel follows her struggle between her noble dreams and the realities of life in French society at the end of the 19th century.
The birth, childhood, upbringing and warlike exploits of the giant Gargantua: a satire on scholasticism, wars, monasticism and society, with grotesque humour, enormous eating/drinking and utopian ideals.
Maigret faces the power and silence that prevent him from fully solving the crime.
In both novels, Maigret, through investigations and court proceedings, uncovers the hidden motives and psychology of the characters, showing that behind crimes there are always complex human stories.
Uncle Goriot is one of the most famous and important novels by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1835. It is part of his vast cycle The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), and is considered perhaps the most successful work in that cycle.