8 best-selling classics books like The Children's Crusade by Marcel Schwob

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The Children's Crusade

By: Marcel Schwob

3.89

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reveren…

If you liked the classics plot in The Children's Crusade by Marcel Schwob , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars, Alan Brown, Paul La Farge, Paul LaFarge

1. Moravagine

By: Blaise Cendrars , Alan Brown , Paul La Farge , Paul LaFarge

3.82

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with N… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean."

-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

"A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging ... as on the Goya print."

-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

"One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away."

-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

"Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress..."

-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine

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2. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

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3. Bola de sebo [Cuento]

By: Guy de Maupassant , Natlaie Montoto

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Fiero relato que de una manera ironica y burlona, expone la decadencia e hipocresia de la sociedad … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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4. El nadador en el mar secreto

By: William Kotzwinkle

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

William Kotzwinkle es un escritor estadounidense, autor de libros infantiles, novelas de genero fan… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Disagreeable Tales

By: Léon Bloy , Erik Butler

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty … read more

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  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Joseph Brodsky, William T. Vollmann, Danilo Kiš, None, None, Danilo Kies

6. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

By: Joseph Brodsky , William T. Vollmann , Danilo Kiš , None , None , Danilo Kies

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovichpresents variations on the theme of politi… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley

7. A Universal History of Iniquity

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories

8. The Day Before the Revolution

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.50

Format: 262 pages, ebook

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9. The Kingdom of This World

By: Alejo Carpentier , Harriet de Onís

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurp… read more

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10. Almost Transparent Blue

By: Ryū Murakami , Nancy Andrew

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American… read more

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11. The Madness of the Day

By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism) of The Madness of the Daythat it is "a sto… read more

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12. His Name was Death

By: Rafael Bernal

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling the… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
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13. Natureza Urbana

By: Joana Bértholo

4.19

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

«Eu era uma pessoa simples urbana, uma planta que insistiu em crescer entre os paralelepípedos do p… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. The Children's Crusade

By: Marcel Schwob

3.89

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reveren… read more

Similar categories in Marcel Schwob's The Children's Crusade book and Marcel Schwob's The Children's Crusade

  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • drama
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15. Insomniacs After School, Vol. 1

By: Makoto Ojiro

4.08

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Unable to sleep at night, Ganta Nakami is cranky in class and unpopular with his classmates. He … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

16. The World as Will and Representation

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.26

Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition

The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa by Kenji Miyazawa

17. Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa

By: Kenji Miyazawa

3.90

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed t… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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18. La sunamita

By: Inés Arredondo

4.11

Format: 31 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Con resonancias bíblicas, La Sunamita —quizá el cuento más conocido de Inés Arredondo— narra la his… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue by Fernando Díaz Villanueva

19. Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue

By: Fernando Díaz Villanueva

4.47

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

La escisión religiosa que condenó a Europa a siglo y medio de crueles enfrentamientos. Y la mal lla… read more

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20. Un cuento de navidad

By: Emilio Carballido

3.51

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

En Un cuento de Navidad, Carballido nos presenta el divertido enfrentamiento entre dos hombres que … read more

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21. Hibakusha. Testimonio de Yasuaki Yamashita (Vientos del Pueblo) (Spanish Edition)

By: Sergio Hernández

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Este testimonio de Yasuaki Yamashita, sobreviviente de la bomba atómica lanzada en 1945 en la ciuda… read more

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3.82

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3.54

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4.35

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4.20

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4.49

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3.87

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