23 must-read classics books like Les Beaux Quartiers by Louis Aragon

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Les Beaux Quartiers

By: Louis Aragon

3.72

Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Cover of La promesse de l'aube by Romain Gary

1. La promesse de l'aube

By: Romain Gary

4.24

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

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2. First Love

By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

Cover of The Vagabond by Colette Gauthier-Villars, Judith Thurman, Enid McLeod

3. The Vagabond

By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supportin… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

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4. The Magician of Lublin

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his e… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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5. The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)

By: Émile Zola

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Emile Zola… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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6. La symphonie pastorale

By: André Gide

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • roman
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher Prendergast

7. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Misery begets equality."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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8. Les Précieuses Ridicules

By: Molière

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Les Precieuses ridiculesest une satire en un acte et en prose. Les Precieuses sont Magdelon et Cath… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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9. Bérénice

By: Jean Racine

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Berenice, au centre de l'oeuvre de son auteur, en 1670, est une piece singuliere dans la production… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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10. Belle du Seigneur

By: Albert Cohen

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Mass Market Paperback

<> Ariane devant son seigneur, son maitre, son aime Solal, tous deux entoures d'une foule de compar… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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11. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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12. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"[...] 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

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

13. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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14. Under Fire

By: Henri Barbusse , Robin Buss , Jay Murray Winter , None

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one o… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Il giorno della civetta by Leonardo Sciascia

15. Il giorno della civetta

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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16. 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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  • fiction
"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

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17. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Charterhouse of Parma by Robert Andrew Parker, Richard Howard, Stendhal, Arthur Schurig

18. The Charterhouse of Parma

By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig

3.79

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

19. The Man Who Laughs

By: Victor Hugo

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs(first published under the French title L'Homme qui Ritin April 186… read more

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20. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • french literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

21. Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (Les Rougon-Macquart, #6)

By: Émile Zola

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

En 1856, Eugene Rougon, un ancien avocat de province qui a contribue a faire l'Empire et que l'Empi… read more

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22. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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23. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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

24. Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #4)

By: John Fante

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934… read more

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25. 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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26. La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2)

By: Émile Zola

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A la fin d'une chasse, pendant la curee, les chiens devorent les entrailles de la bete tuee. Pour l… read more

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27. 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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  • roman
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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

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28. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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  • roman
  • france
  • french literature
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

Cover of Ferragus, chef des Dévorants by Honoré de Balzac

29. Ferragus, chef des Dévorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.48

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write … read more

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  • roman
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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30. Les Beaux Quartiers

By: Louis Aragon

3.72

Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of La tour d'amour by Rachilde

31. La tour d'amour

By: Rachilde

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

La tour d'amour, un des plus célèbres romans de Rachilde, met en scène le huis clos oppressant de d… read more

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  • classics

22 Best fiction books like Les Beaux Quartiers by Louis Aragon

Transform Your Habits

La promesse de l'aube

Romain Gary

4.24

Transform Your Habits

First Love

Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Vagabond

Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Magician of Lublin

Isaac Bashevis Singer

3.91

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15 Top fiction books like Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac, Ellen Marriage, George Saintsbury

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Aurélien

Louis Aragon

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

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The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

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