14 best-selling classics books like Essais, tome 3 by Michel de Montaigne

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Essais, tome 3

By: Michel de Montaigne

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

C'est une absolue perfection, et comme divine, de savoir jouir loyalement de son être. Nous chercho…

"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out..."

-Michel de Montaigne, Essais, tome 3

"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out..."

-Michel de Montaigne, Essais, tome 3

If you liked the classics plot in Essais, tome 3 by Michel de Montaigne , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

3.37

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more

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  • classics
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"

-Henry James, Daisy Miller

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2. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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3. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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  • classics
"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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4. 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
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5. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • classics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • french literature
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6. De ce iubim femeile

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

E limpede ca si adultii au nevoie de povesti. Numai ca zanele lor si-au scurtat rochiile, si-au tai… read more

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7. The Art of Happiness

By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach

4.19

Format: 294 pages, ebook

New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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8. The Problems of Philosophy

By: Bertrand Russell

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

Format: None pages,

Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Las muertas

By: Jorge Ibargüengoitia

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Si al despertarse, Simon Corona se hubiera vuelto a su casa, los crimenes de Las Poquianchis habria… read more

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11. Reveries of the Solitary Walker

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Peter France

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The struggle between Rousseau's yearning for solitude and his need for society is the central theme… read more

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12. Libertad Bajo Palabra (1935-1957)

By: Octavio Paz

3.87

Format: 144 pages,

En palabras del propio Octavio Paz "este libro se fue haciendo poco a poco a traves de los anos, si… read more

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13. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

14. 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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15. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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  • classics
"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

16. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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17. Demain, une oasis

By: Ayerdhal

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Thriller sombre et bouleversant, roman premonitoire devenu un classique un livre tout public a deco… read more

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18. I انسان مفرط في انسانيته

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , فريدريك نيتشه , محمد الناجي

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

l tstkhdm lal@ lty hy ntj lmlk@ lfkry@ l`ly, ld~ ldhyn ystkhdmwnh sw~ lTqt ldny wlys lfkr. wbf`lh d… read more

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19. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"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

20. Montaigne

By: Stefan Zweig

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

Auteur de nombreuses biographies (Fouche, Balzac, Marie-Antoinette, Magellan,... ), Stefan Zweig dr… read more

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21. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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22. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

By: William Blake

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and lit… read more

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23. Persian Letters

By: Montesquieu , None

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more

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24. The Wild Ass's Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac , Herbert J. Hunt

3.71

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

The Wild Ass's Skin is Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaël d… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"He looked like some plant bleached by darkness."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

"Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

"Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

"La verdadera pasión se expresa con gritos, con suspiros fastidiosos para el hombre frío."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

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25. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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26. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
  • french literature
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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27. Amphitryon

By: Plautus

3.50

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Translation by Sir Robert Allison. The legendary birth of the demigod Hercules treated as riotous, … read more

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  • classics
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28. Essais, tome 3

By: Michel de Montaigne

4.12

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

C'est une absolue perfection, et comme divine, de savoir jouir loyalement de son être. Nous chercho… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • french literature
"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out..."

-Michel de Montaigne, Essais, tome 3

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29. Rouge impératrice

By: Léonora Miano

3.25

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Le lieu : Katiopa, un continent africain prospère et autarcique, presque entièrement unifié, comme … read more

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  • france
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30. Lettres persanes

By: LAURENCE MACE

3.69

Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

L'Orient et l'Occident, le sérail et les salons, les intrigues des sultanes et la coquetterie des P… read more

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31. Lettres d'une Péruvienne (French Edition)

By: Françoise de Graffigny

3.57

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

Le récit montre comment l'héroïne se révèle peu à peu capable de retourner ses handicaps (différenc… read more

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  • france

6 Top philosophy books like Essais, tome 3 by Michel de Montaigne

Transform Your Habits

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

The Art of Happiness

Epicurus , George K. Strodach

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

Epictetus , Sharon Lebell

3.37

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6 Top novella books like The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

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The Invention of Morel

Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

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My Death

Lisa Tuttle

3.98

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The Membranes

Chi Ta-wei

3.98

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Nothing but the Rain

Naomi Salman

3.88

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