19 Top classics books like Captain Burle by Émile Zola

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Captain Burle

By: Émile Zola

3.35

Format: None pages, ebook

According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French wr…

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Cover of The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library) by Virginia Woolf

1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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  • classics
"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

Cover of Robinson Crusoe by Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Gerald McCann

2. Robinson Crusoe

By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more

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  • classics
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."

-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe

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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. The Cricket on the Hearth

By: Charles Dickens

3.45

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, th… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories
"I must bear the consequences as I deserve!"

-Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

"Gruff and Tackleton was also there, doing the agreeable; with the evident sensation of being as perfectly at home, and as unquestionably in his own element, as a fresh young salmon on the top of the …"

-Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

Cover of The Kreutzer Sonata by Doris Lessing, Leo Tolstoy, Isai Kamen

5. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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6. The Birds and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.39

Format: 440 pages, ebook

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
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7. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

8. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
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9. A Passion In The Desert

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • short stories
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10. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

Cover of The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

11. The Double

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.68

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories
"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double

12. A Woman Of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.79

Format: 160 pages,

Our heroine Julie is attending with her ailing father one of Napoleon's reviews of his troops. It i… read more

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13. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

By: Malika Oufkir , Michèle Fitoussi

2.50

Format: 52 pages,

A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and … read more

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14. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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15. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

16. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more

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17. Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Pam Morris

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughterscentres on the story of yout… read more

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18. 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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"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)

19. The Purloined Letter

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Library Binding

The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his t… read more

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20. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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  • classics
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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21. The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck

3.54

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

22. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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23. Sons and Lovers

By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more

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24. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.82

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more

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  • classics
"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"

-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)

Cover of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1) by Edgar Allan Poe

25. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • short stories
"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

26. Les Misérables : Tome I

By: Victor Hugo

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Jean Valjean, un ancien forcat condamne en 1796, trouve asile, apres avoir ete libere du bagne et a… read more

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27. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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  • classics
"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

Cover of Post Office by Charles Bukowski

28. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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  • classics
"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

Cover of Ti amo by Hanne Ørstavik

29. Ti amo

By: Hanne Ørstavik

3.86

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

"Jeg elsker deg. Vi sier det til hverandre hele tiden. Vi sier det, i stedet for å si noe annet. Hv… read more

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  • short stories
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30. Captain Burle

By: Émile Zola

3.35

Format: None pages, ebook

According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French wr… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • short stories

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Transform Your Habits

The Cricket on the Hearth

Charles Dickens

3.45

Transform Your Habits

The Kreutzer Sonata

Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

3.39

Transform Your Habits

A Passion In The Desert

Honoré de Balzac

3.50

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Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

John Fante

4.10

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

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