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• Reads George Eliot’s Felix Holt, the radical (66).
• Reads Eliot’s Scenes of clerical life
• Reads Fénelon’s Les aventures de Télémaque
• Transcribes the whole French edition of Thomas a Kempis’s De imitatione Christi and reads Bossuet’s Oraisons funèbres (129).
• Reads Dickens’s A tale of two cities and Carlyle’s The French Revolution (132).
• Reads Michelet’s L’histoire de la Révolution française
• Reads Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s cabin and Dickens’s Hard times
• Vincent reads Hugo’s Le dernier jour d’un condamné and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and King Lear
• Reads a number of French and English novels, among them Shirley and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Illusions perdues and Le père Goriot by Balzac, and the Goncourts’ Gavarni - l’homme et l’oeuvre (174)
• Reads Eliot’s Middlemarch (316). Re-reads Carlyle’s Sartor resartus (274, 325) and Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris and Les misérables
• Re-reads Carlyle’s On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history
• End of October
• Lists contemporary French authors and books that he considers important: Zola (La joie de vivre, L’assommoir), Flaubert, Maupassant (Bel-ami), the Goncourts (Germinie Lacerteux, La fille Elisa), Richepin, Daudet and Huysmans. Has just read Maupassant’s Mont Oriol and Tolstoy’s A la recherche du bonheur (574).
• Reads Balzac’s César Birotteau. Decides to re-read all of Balzac’s novels
• In the asylum: Reads Dickens’s Christmas books, and re-reads Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s cabin (753)
• In the asylum: Re-reads Voltaire’s Zadig ou la destinée and reads Shakespeare’s history plays and Measure for measure (783, 785, 787).

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