Marshlands
By: André Gide
3.56
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune."-André Gide, Marshlands
"Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; déplorable ! Ils ne s'aperçoivent plus de la médiocrité, sitôt que ce n'est plus une médiocrité de fortune."-André Gide, Marshlands
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1. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
2. Two Serious Ladies
By: Jane Bowles
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more
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3. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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4. Maria Chapdelaine
By: Louis Hémon
4.32
Format: 285 pages,
Ce classique de la litterature du xxe siecle a pendant longtemps ete recupere par les ideologies co… read more
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5. The Ravishing of Lol Stein
By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more
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6. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz
By: Alfred Döblin
4.10
Format: None pages,
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more
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8. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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9. Thérèse Desqueyroux
By: François Mauriac
1.00
Format: None pages,
Pour eviter le scandale et proteger les interets de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme T… read more
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10. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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11. René
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
"Levez-vous vite, orages desires, qui devez emporter Rene dans les espaces d'une autre vie !" Tout … read more
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12. The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more
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13. Confessions
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Patrick Coleman , Angela Scholar
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
The Confessionsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography. Covering his first 53 years, up to 1765, i… read more
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14. Au fil de la vie : Nouvelles et esquisses
By: Rainer Maria Rilke
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Poche
Une messe d'enterrement, un hospice de vieillards, deux soeurs liees par la haine, des malades et d… read more
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15. All Souls
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not leas… read more
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16. Correspondance (1944-1959)
By: Albert Camus
3.87
Format: 1312 pages, Paperback
Le 19 mars 1944, Albert Camus et Maria Casarès se croisent chez Michel Leiris, lors de la fameuse r… read more
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"Un amour, Maria, ça ne se conquiert pas sur le monde mais sur soi-même."-Albert Camus, Correspondance (1944-1959)
"Verrà il momento in cui nonostante tutti i dolori saremo leggeri, gioiosi e veri."-Albert Camus, Correspondance (1944-1959)
"Et qu'est-ce que je vais devenir si tu ne m'aimes pas comme j'ai besoin que tu m'aimes ?"-Albert Camus, Correspondance (1944-1959)
"Et moi, je n'ai jamais été aussi démuni, aussi désarmé. Je t'embrasse, mais avec ces larmes que je ne peux pas verser et qui m'étouffent."-Albert Camus, Correspondance (1944-1959)
17. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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18. Marshlands
By: André Gide
3.56
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. … read more
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"Vertu des humbles - acceptation; et cela leur va si bien, à certains, qu'on croit comprendre que leur vie est faite à la mesure de leur âme. Surtout ne pas les plaindre : leur état leur convient ; dé…"-André Gide, Marshlands
19. Un roi sans divertissement
By: Jean Giono
3.57
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le … read more
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"¿Quién dijo aquello de: "Un rey sin diversión es un hombre lleno de miserias"?"-Jean Giono, Un roi sans divertissement
"Il était comme ces moines qui sont obligés de faire effort pour s'arracher d'où ils sont et venir où vous êtes; imiter les rires et les mots auxquels vous êtes habitués; avoir la politesse ou le mépr…"-Jean Giono, Un roi sans divertissement
20. Héliogabale: Drame en quatre actes
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21. Le triomphe de l'amour
By: Pierre de Marivaux
3.52
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Léonide, princesse de Sparte, règne sur un trône jadis usurpé par son oncle. Elle désire rendre le … read more
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