9 must-read classics books like A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien

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A Woman Appeared to Me

By: Renée Vivien

4.21

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

"A WOMAN APPEARED TO ME is Renée Vivien's feverish, dream-like account of her tormented relationshi…

"You yourself are the bizarre flower of some unknown dream."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

"I have loved to the limit of my strength. No one has a right to ask more of any human being."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

"She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

"She smiled at me, and I felt a sudden burning tenderness for this creature so like fruit and roses. I desired her like blue water at dawn."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

If you liked the classics plot in A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Aurélien by Louis Aragon

1. Aurélien

By: Louis Aragon

4.30

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

Dans cette chronique parisienne de l'entre-deux guerres, Aragon décrit la toute nouvelle société su… read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Aurélien, cette nuit, s'approuve. Tout lui devient logique, signe de son amour."

-Louis Aragon, Aurélien

"La première fois qu'Aurélien vit Bérénice, il la trouva franchement laide. Elle lui déplut, enfin. Il n'aima pas comment elle était habillée."

-Louis Aragon, Aurélien

"Il avait plu le matin de bonne heure, mais Dieu merci il faisait presque beau depuis neuf heures, c'est-à-dire qu'il faisait ignoble mais qu'on ne pataugeait pas."

-Louis Aragon, Aurélien

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2. Les Choses

By: Georges Perec

3.80

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

L.F: " Les choses " ? C'est un titre qui intrigue, qui alimente les malentendus. Plutôt qu'un livre… read more

Similar categories in Georges Perec's Les Choses book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"A trente ans, l'on se doit d'être arrivé, ou bien l'on n'est rien. Et nul n'est arrivé s'il n'a trouvé sa place, s'il n'a creusé son trou, s'il n'a ses clés, son bureau, sa petite plaque."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

Cover of The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

3. The Well of Loneliness

By: Radclyffe Hall

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more

Similar categories in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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4. Ladies Almanack

By: Djuna Barnes

3.13

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Combines visual artistry with literary parody, bawdy humour and zest for the sensual pleasures of l… read more

Similar categories in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • lesbian
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • queer
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5. Paulina 1880

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Paulina Pandolfini. Nee a Milan le 14 juin 1849. Fille cadette de Mario Giuseppe Pandolfini et de L… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset, Sherrill Harbison, Arthur G. Chater

6. Gunnar's Daughter

By: Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison , Arthur G. Chater

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, this is the story of the beauti… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Morphine

By: Mikhail Bulgakov

3.97

Format: 172 pages,

Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arri… read more

Similar categories in Mikhail Bulgakov's Morphine book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • classics
  • fiction

8. Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel

By: Rachilde , Melanie C. Hawthorne

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor yo… read more

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9. Brodeck

By: Philippe Claudel

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Set in an unnamed time and place, Brodeck blends the familiar and unfamiliar, myth and history into… read more

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10. Thérèse et Isabelle

By: Violette Leduc

4.50

Format: None pages,

Voici Therese et Isabelletel que Violette Leduc l'avait ecrit a l'origine, avec ses pages inedites … read more

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11. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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12. La chair est triste hélas

By: Ovidie

4.17

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

" J'ai repensé à ces innombrables rapports auxquels je m'étais forcée par politesse, pour ne pas fr… read more

Similar categories in Ovidie's La chair est triste hélas book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • feminism
  • france
  • queer
Cover of Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon

13. Quand tu écouteras cette chanson

By: Lola Lafon

4.40

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Le 18 août 2021, j'ai passé la nuit au Musée Anne Frank, dans l'Annexe. Anne Frank, que tout le mon… read more

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  • feminism
  • france
  • french literature
Cover of Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest by Kaho Nashiki

14. Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

By: Kaho Nashiki

3.74

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Mai ha tredici anni e non vuole più andare a scuola. La madre, preoccupata, decide di mandarla a st… read more

Similar categories in Kaho Nashiki's Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • fiction
"I desideri giusti, quelli che sono in linea con il corso delle cose, ti fanno da guida e si trasformano in realtà."

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

"["What happens to people when they die?" When she heard that, her grandmother made a sound that was not like a voice but a moan. And with a deep breath, she replied, "I don't know. To tell you the tr…"

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

"Devi ripeterti che, qualunque cosa accada, 'non è una ferita mortale'. In questo modo, anche se in quel momento non ti sembrerà, da qualche parte nel tuo corpo e nella tua mente nascerà il seme di un…"

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

"Ascolta. Questa è la lezione più importante dell'addestramento da strega. Una strega deve fare affidamento sul proprio intuito, però non deve lasciare che questo abbia il sopravvento. Quando succede,…"

-Kaho Nashiki, Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

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15. A Woman Appeared to Me

By: Renée Vivien

4.21

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

"A WOMAN APPEARED TO ME is Renée Vivien's feverish, dream-like account of her tormented relationshi… read more

Similar categories in Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • romance
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • queer
"You yourself are the bizarre flower of some unknown dream."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

"I have loved to the limit of my strength. No one has a right to ask more of any human being."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

"She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

"She smiled at me, and I felt a sudden burning tenderness for this creature so like fruit and roses. I desired her like blue water at dawn."

-Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me

Cover of Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West by Virginia Woolf

16. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

By: Virginia Woolf

4.46

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • queer
"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

Cover of Blomsterdalen by Niviaq Korneliussen

17. Blomsterdalen

By: Niviaq Korneliussen

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i… read more

Similar categories in Niviaq Korneliussen's Blomsterdalen book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Clémence en colère by Mirion Malle

18. Clémence en colère

By: Mirion Malle

4.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Clémence est en colère. Une colère si forte, si envahissante qu'elle l'empêche de vivre. Sentant qu… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Les Nuits bleues by Anne-Fleur Multon

19. Les Nuits bleues

By: Anne-Fleur Multon

4.11

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Dans les rues d'un Paris déserté, la narratrice avance la peur au ventre et la joie au coeur : c'es… read more

Similar categories in Anne-Fleur Multon's Les Nuits bleues book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • romance
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • france
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of Écrire à l'encre violette by Aurore Turbiau

20. Écrire à l'encre violette

By: Aurore Turbiau

4.32

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Après des siècles d’un silence quasi-entier, plusieurs œuvres ouvertement lesbiennes sont publiées … read more

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  • feminism
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of À nos désirs - Dans l'intimité des lesbiennes by Élodie Font

21. À nos désirs - Dans l'intimité des lesbiennes

By: Élodie Font

4.62

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Élodie Font's À nos désirs - Dans l'intimité des lesbiennes book and Renée Vivien's A Woman Appeared to Me

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • queer

7 Top france books like A Woman Appeared to Me by Renée Vivien

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Louis Aragon

4.30

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Les Choses

Georges Perec

3.80

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Pierre Jean Jouve

2.00

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Ovidie

4.17

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L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

Transform Your Habits

L'età fragile

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Om udregning af rumfang I

Solvej Balle

3.71

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Peter Cameron

3.47

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