16 Top classics books like Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond de Goncourt

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Germinie Lacerteux

By: Edmond de Goncourt

3.54

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

English, French (translation)

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1. Thérèse Raquin

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.73

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of… read more

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  • 19th century
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"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir à jamais troublé leur vie."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir a jamais troublé leur vie."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

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2. Tristan et Iseult

By: René Louis

3.48

Format: 252 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tristan conduit Iseult la Blonde vers son futur époux, le roi Marc. A bord du navire, avant que les… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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  • 19th century
  • france
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • 19th century
  • france
  • french literature
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Cover of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher Prendergast

6. Eugénie Grandet

By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more

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  • 19th century
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"Misery begets equality."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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7. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7) by Émile Zola, Robin Buss

8. 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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  • 19th century
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  • french literature
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9. The Nun

By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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10. The Counterfeiters

By: André Gide

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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  • novels
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11. Peer Gynt

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer , Charles Archer

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Among the masterpieces of world literature, this early verse drama by the celebrated Norwegian play… read more

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  • classics
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Cover of The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, None

12. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) by Émile Zola, Roger Pearson

13. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)

By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more

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14. The Romance of Tristan, The Tale of Tristan's Madness

By: Béroul , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Trist… read more

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15. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

16. La Bête humaine

By: Émile Zola , Henri Mitterand

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Mass Market Paperback

<< L'essentiel de La Bete humaine, c'est l'instinct de mort dans le personnage principal, la felure… read more

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17. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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18. 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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19. Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more

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20. Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

By: Arthur Rimbaud

3.26

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Si l'on devait citer le poète qui a exercé l'influence la plus profonde sur la poésie du début du X… read more

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"On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu'on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade."

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

"l'Idole où tu mis tant de virginité, Où tu divinisas notre argile, la Femme, Afin que l'Homme pût éclairer sa pauvre âme Et monter lentement, dans un immense amour, De la prison terrestre à la beauté…"

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

"Ma bohème Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ; Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ; J'allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j'étais ton féal ; Oh ! là ! là ! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvée…"

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

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21. Germinie Lacerteux

By: Edmond de Goncourt

3.54

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

English, French (translation) read more

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15 Top fiction books like Germinie Lacerteux by Edmond de Goncourt

Transform Your Habits

Thérèse Raquin

Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Tristan et Iseult

René Louis

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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Miss Julie

David French , August Strindberg

3.87

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Nokon kjem til å komme

Jon Fosse

3.87

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Erasmus Montanus or Rasmus Berg

Ludvig Holberg

4.10

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Victoria

Knut Hamsun

3.75

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