14 must-read classics books like La Vénus d'Ille. Colomba. Mateo Falcone by Prosper Mérimée

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La Vénus d'Ille. Colomba. Mateo Falcone

By: Prosper Mérimée

3.46

Format: 338 pages, Pocket Book

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1. Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Eu… read more

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  • france
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"My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty spa…"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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

2. 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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  • 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

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

3. 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

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4. Tomorrow's Eve

By: Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Robert M. Adams

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

"Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hop… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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5. Les Disparus du Clairdelune

By: Christelle Dabos

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Officiellement introduite a la cour comme Vice-conteuse, Ophelie decouvre les mondanites d'un unive… read more

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

6. 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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7. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

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8. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

9. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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10. L’été

By: Albert Camus

3.94

Format: 322 pages,

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11. 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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"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

12. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I

By: Alexandre Dumas , Jean-Yves Tadié , Gilbert Sigaux

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tome I de II. << On fit encore quatre ou cinq pas en montant toujours, puis Dantes sentit qu'on le … read more

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13. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II

By: Alexandre Dumas , Jean-Yves Tadié , Gilbert Sigaux

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tome II de II. Edmond Dantes, le commandant du Pharaon, fiance a la belle Mercedes, a vu ses espera… read more

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14. Bonjour tristesse

By: Françoise Sagan

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

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15. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

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16. Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

By: Stefan Zweig , Mahmure Kahraman

3.90

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlat… read more

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"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

"Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır."

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

"Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute ceux qui se portent à leur secours."

-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat

17. La Mémoire de Babel

By: Christelle Dabos

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deux ans et sept mois qu'Ophelie se morfond sur son arche d'Anima. Aujourd'hui il lui faut agir, ex… read more

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18. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

19. 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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20. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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21. La Tempête des échos (La Passe-Miroir, #4)

By: Christelle Dabos

3.74

Format: 572 pages, Paperback

Le monde est sens dessus dessous. L’effondrement des arches a bel et bien commencé. Une seule solut… read more

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"Un peu plus que cela, même."

-Christelle Dabos, La Tempête des échos (La Passe-Miroir, #4)

"Un ami est une route, un ennemi est un mur."

-Christelle Dabos, La Tempête des échos (La Passe-Miroir, #4)

"- Ils sont tous morts. - Personne n'est mort. - Alors pourquoi ne reviennent-ils jamais?"

-Christelle Dabos, La Tempête des échos (La Passe-Miroir, #4)

"J'ai besoin que tu aies besoin de moi, c'est aussi élémentaire que ça. Et je sais pertinemment que, dans ce conflit d'intérêts qui nous oppose, je suis condamné à être le perdant. Parce que je suis p…"

-Christelle Dabos, La Tempête des échos (La Passe-Miroir, #4)

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22. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • school
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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23. Leurs enfants après eux

By: Nicolas Mathieu

3.90

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Août 1992. Une vallée perdue quelque part dans l’Est, des hauts-fourneaux qui ne brûlent plus, un l… read more

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"Anthony stood on the shore and stared."

-Nicolas Mathieu, Leurs enfants après eux

"Like fifty million other losers, Anthony was caught up in the game, his misfortune temporarily at bay, his yearning merging with the great national aspiration. From stock traders to kids in Bobigny t…"

-Nicolas Mathieu, Leurs enfants après eux

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24. The Devil's Sons - Tome 2

By: Chloé Wallerand

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

De dangereuses révélations ont vu le jour, la vie d’Avalone a pris un tournant sans précédent. Déso… read more

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25. The Devil's Sons - Tome 1

By: Chloé Wallerand

4.28

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

Si je pensais passer ma première année d’université de la façon la plus banale qui soit, concentrée… read more

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26. Red Falcon

By: Aurore Payelle

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Weston Parker, attaquant de l'équipe de hockey de son université, est un paria parmi les étudiants.… read more

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27. L'Art du Trompe-l’œil (French Edition)

By: Océane Ghanem

4.47

Format: 573 pages, Kindle Edition

Une passion : l'art. Une école : les Beaux-Arts. Jin, artiste taciturne et marginal, puise son ins… read more

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28. Tainted Hearts, tome 1

By: Jenn Guerrieri

3.99

Format: None pages, None

Élève à la section danse de la Juilliard School, un prestigieux conservatoire situé à New York, All… read more

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29. Tainted Hearts, tome 3

By: Jenn Guerrieri

4.26

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

Ally a découvert la vérité. Et cette bombe lâchée au milieu d’un repas a réduit en cendres ses espé… read more

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30. Tainted Hearts, tome 2

By: Jenn Guerrieri

4.34

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Une bague, une vérité qui éclate, un coup de tonnerre. Après avoir découvert la véritable identi… read more

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31. La Vénus d'Ille. Colomba. Mateo Falcone

By: Prosper Mérimée

3.46

Format: 338 pages, Pocket Book

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7 Top school books like La Vénus d'Ille. Colomba. Mateo Falcone by Prosper Mérimée

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Antigone

Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Transform Your Habits

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

3.54

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Anton Chekhov , None , Yulva Muhurcişi

4.26

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

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David Foenkinos

3.80

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