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Charles Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE (1804-1869), critique fran ais, dont les articles les plus d terminants apparurent dans La Revue de Paris et La revue des deux mondes et furent ensuite inclus dans un volume intitul ...

This is the first English translation of a pre-Freudian psychological novel. The narrator victimizes women while feeling victimized by his own sensuality.