Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in its explorations of the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction.
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One of the country's foremost young business reporters delivers a thrilling, definitive account of the financial crisis on Wall Street and in Washington.
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