Albigenses
By: Charles Robert Maturin
3.27
Format: 1686 pages, Hardcover
Charles Robert Maturin's last novel, The Albigenses (1824), a historical romance of the early 13th …
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1. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
2. Les Chants de Maldoror
By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham
4.15
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more
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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
3. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
4. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
By: James Fenimore Cooper
3.70
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more
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"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
5. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)
By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more
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6. Martin Chuzzlewit
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Patricia Ingham
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set partly in the United States, this novel includes a searing satire on mid-nineteenth-century Ame… read more
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7. The Betrothed
By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman
3.85
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more
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"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed
8. Shirley
By: Charlotte Brontë , Lucasta Miller , None , Jessica Cox
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a mora… read more
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9. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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10. Uncle Silas
By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Victor Sage
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed tod… read more
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11. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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12. Nicholas Nickleby
By: Charles Dickens , Mark Ford
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I shall never regret doing as I have--never, if I starve or beg in consequence' When Nicholas Nick… read more
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13. Adam Bede
By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne
3.82
Format: 624 pages, Paperback
The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more
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"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"-George Eliot, Adam Bede
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."-George Eliot, Adam Bede
14. On the Eve
By: Ivan Turgenev
3.84
Format: 464 pages,
First published in 1859, On the Eve(of the Russian revolution) is another of Turgenev's lyrical ide… read more
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15. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
16. The Water Babies
By: Charles Kingsley
3.91
Format: None pages,
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues t… read more
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17. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
18. Lost Illusions
By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more
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"For avarice begins where poverty ends."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
19. The Monastery
By: Walter Scott
4.17
Format: 267 pages,
Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural eve… read more
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20. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
21. Albigenses
By: Charles Robert Maturin
3.27
Format: 1686 pages, Hardcover
Charles Robert Maturin's last novel, The Albigenses (1824), a historical romance of the early 13th … read more
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- classics
- 19th century
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