Le bonheur dans le crime
By: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
3.59
Format: 94 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nouvelle déjà parue en 1871.Le docteur Torty et le narrateur se promènent au Jardin des Plantes. De…
Want to Read $ 5.99"The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know."-Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime
"The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know."-Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime
"She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful."-Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime
"She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful."-Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime
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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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"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 a 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 à 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
2. Colazione da Tiffany
By: Truman Capote , Bruno Tasso
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Holly Golightly, la protagonista di questo estroso romanzo breve, è una cover-girl di New York, att… read more
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- short stories
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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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"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
4. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. La Cantatrice chauve
By: Eugène Ionesco
3.76
Format: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Tout le monde la connaît. Peu peuvent l'expliquer. C'est ce que fait à merveille Emmanuel Jacquart,… read more
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"Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver."-Eugène Ionesco, La Cantatrice chauve
6. Sarrasine
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.87
Format: 400 pages,
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch… read more
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7. Britannicus
By: Jean Racine
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Une mere autoritaire et possessive, un fils sournois et pervers, un vertueux demi-frere par allianc… read more
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8. Don Juan
By: Molière , Richard Wilbur
3.56
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Molière's classic tale of the Seducer of Seville, an uproariously funny story flawlessly translated… read more
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"[...] il n'est rien de si doux que de triompher de la résistance d'une belle personne."-Molière, Don Juan
"[..] l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus."-Molière, Don Juan
"Bah!, non andiamo a pensare a quel che può capitarci e pensiamo soltanto a quel che può darci piacere."-Molière, Don Juan
9. Huis clos, suivi de Les mouches
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.76
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
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11. Le Colonel Chabert
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.59
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more
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- france
- fiction
"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert
12. La Maison Tellier
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
9 contes: La maison Tellier -- Les tombales -- Sur l'eau -- Histoire d'une fille de ferme -- En fam… read more
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13. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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14. Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
By: Stefan Zweig , Ahmet Cemal
4.11
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Stefan Zweig Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu (Brief einer Unbekannten) adlı uzun öyküsünü 1920'li yı… read more
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"იმდენი ვიოცნებე,რომ, თუ შეიძლება ასე ითქვას ოცნება გადავცვითე..."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
"... bir tel gibi gergindim ve varlığının ona her dokunuşuyla tınlıyordum."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
"...el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
"Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu."-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu
15. The Loved One
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.76
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more
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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One
16. Manon Lescaut
By: Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Leonard Tancock , None
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to … read more
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17. Moderato cantabile
By: Marguerite Duras
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated b… read more
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18. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
19. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
20. My Heart Laid Bare
By: Charles Baudelaire , Ariana Reines
3.94
Format: 322 pages,
Despues de una vida de excesos, marcada por la voluptuosidad y el desacato, Charles Baudelaire se h… read more
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21. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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22. No Exit
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more
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23. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
24. Les Liaisons dangereuses
By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée
4.06
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more
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- france
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"J'ai vécu"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
25. Andromaque
By: Jean Racine
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Fin d'une guerre ou l'on crie malheur aux vaincus. Prise d'otages. Chantage sur un enfant. Complot.… read more
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26. The Diary of a Chambermaid
By: John Baxter , Octave Mirbeau
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
"I am no saint; I have known many men, and I know, by experience, all the madness, all the vileness… read more
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27. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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- france
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
28. 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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- france
"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
29. Un automne pour te pardonner (Seasons, #1)
By: Morgane Moncomble
4.46
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Avocate en devenir, Camélia est passionnée de crimes non résolus. Ça tombe bien, Rory Cavendish… read more
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30. Star
By: Yukio Mishima
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screamin… read more
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"Just as evil never dies, neither does the sentimental."-Yukio Mishima, Star
"The very thing that makes a star spectacular is the same thing that strikes him from the world at large and makes him an outsider."-Yukio Mishima, Star
"A hidden poetry that will be lost if any mediocrity is shed. Genius is a casualty. The poetry must never be conspicuous — its scent is only detectable when subtle."-Yukio Mishima, Star
31. Le bonheur dans le crime
By: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
3.59
Format: 94 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nouvelle déjà parue en 1871.Le docteur Torty et le narrateur se promènent au Jardin des Plantes. De… read more
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- classics
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"The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know."-Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime
"She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, b…"-Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime
