5 Best 19th century books like History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871 by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

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History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871

By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

3.84

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The Paris Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought. It had such a profound e…

"He who tells the people false revolutionary myths, he who amuses them with sensational stories, is as criminal as the geographer who would draw up false charts for navigators."

-Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray, History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871

"He who tells the people false revolutionary myths, he who amuses them with sensational stories, is as criminal as the geographer who would draw up false charts for navigators."

-Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray, History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871

If you liked the 19th century plot in History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871 by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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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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  • 19th century
  • france
"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

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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. The Civil War in France

By: Karl Marx

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more

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  • politics
  • france
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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5. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more

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6. The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France

By: Meg Ostrum

4.34

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • 19th century
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. 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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  • 19th century
  • france
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10. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

By: Amin Maalouf

4.20

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses, and … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Après la destruction d'Alamout (1256), la secte des Assassins s'est perpétuée sous une forme on ne peut plus pacifique : les ismaéliens, adeptes de l'Aga Khan, dont on oublie parfois qu'il est le suc…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

"In the space of eighteen months three of the most renowned cities of the Arab world - Tripoli, Beirut, and Saida - had been taken and sacked, their inhabitants massacred or deported, their emirs, qad…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

"Pour l'envahisseur, apprendre la langue du peuple conquis est une habileté; pour ce dernier, apprendre la langue du conquérant est une compromission, voire une trahison. De fait, les Franj ont été no…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

"La fierté de Maara, c'était d'être la patrie de l'une des plus grandes figures de la littérature arabe, Aboul-Ala al-Maari, mort en 1057. Ce poète aveugle, libre penseur, avait osé s'en prendre aux m…"

-Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

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11. Dandelion Wine

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more

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"No,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"And the sea moved her back down the shore."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"Those women like to see their tongues dance."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

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12. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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  • politics
"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

13. La balada del norte. Tomo 1

By: Alfonso Zapico , None

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

Madrid, 1933. Tristan Valdivia, periodista sin periodico, editor sin exito y amante sin ilusion, ab… read more

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14. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

By: None , Keith Gessen

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more

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15. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

Maurice and the rats have teamed up with a young lad named Keith to implement a clever moneymaking … read more

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"The second mouse gets the cheese!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"I am not so blind that I can't see darkness."

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"And I say take two, sir," said Maurice urgently. "Two and call it quits?"

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

16. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

By: Guy Delisle

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most se… read more

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17. Patria

By: Fernando Aramburu

3.08

Format: 354 pages,

El dia en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a… read more

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18. Nana

By: Émile Zola

3.84

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat k… read more

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  • 19th century
  • france
"The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"Kalau kau sendiri tidak senang melakukan sesuatu, itu bukan alasan untuk mencegah orang lain menyukainya."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."

-Émile Zola, Nana

19. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more

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20. El camino

By: Miguel Delibes

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Daniel el Mochuelo intuye a sus once anos que su camino esta en la aldea, junto a sus amigos, sus g… read more

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21. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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22. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • france
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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23. La familia

By: Sara Mesa

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

La contundente radiografía de una familia, de sus heridas latentes, fragilidades, contradicciones y… read more

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"Cansa que siempre haga eso, pero no lo puede evitar, ella es así, piensa como una cirujana, con la frialdad de una cirujana."

-Sara Mesa, La familia

"La contempla con lo que a ella le parece una sospecha impropia, ese tipo de actitud suspicaz de aquellos de quienes se ríen todo el tiempo y ya no se fían de nadie"

-Sara Mesa, La familia

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24. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

By: Mao Zedong

3.45

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zed… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"An army of the people is invincible!"

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"Todo o conhecimento genuíno tem origem na experiência direta."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"A crítica deve fazer-se a tempo; não há que se deixar levar pelo mau costume de criticar só depois de consumados os fatos."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

Cover of Ofendiditos: Sobre la criminalización de la protesta by Lucía Lijtmaer

25. Ofendiditos: Sobre la criminalización de la protesta

By: Lucía Lijtmaer

3.75

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

En los últimos tiempos saltan a la prensa noticias como la censura del cartel de una exposición de … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Todos estos casos siguen una misma dinámica: el eslabón más alto de la jerarquía utiliza los medios a su alcance para realizar una crítica, la que sea, contra un movimiento o grupo social. Cuando est…"

-Lucía Lijtmaer, Ofendiditos: Sobre la criminalización de la protesta

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26. Left Is Not Woke

By: Susan Neiman

3.61

Format: None pages, ebook

If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."

-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke

"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"

-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke

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27. M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa

By: Antonio Scurati

4.28

Format: 848 pages, Kindle Edition

Il 3 maggio 1938, nella nuova stazione Ostiense, Mussolini insieme a Vittorio Emanuele III e al min… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. Petrocalipsis: Crisis energética global y cómo (no) la vamos a solucionar

By: Antonio Turiel

4.24

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

La lectura de este libro deja claro que si queremos evitar el peor escenario, el «petrocalipsis», d… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. The Housing Question

By: Friedrich Engels

4.13

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Die nachfolgende Schrift ist der Wiederabdruck dreier Artikel, die ich 1872 in den Leipziger "Volks… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"For our workers in the big cities, freedom of movement is the prime condition of existence, and landownership can only be a fetter to them. Give them their own houses, chain them once again to the so…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

"It is perfectly clear that the existing state is neither able nor willing to do anything to remedy the housing difficulty. The state is nothing but the organized collective power of the possessing cl…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

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30. History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871

By: Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

3.84

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The Paris Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought. It had such a profound e… read more

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  • history
  • 19th century
  • politics
  • war
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
"He who tells the people false revolutionary myths, he who amuses them with sensational stories, is as criminal as the geographer who would draw up false charts for navigators."

-Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray, History Of The Paris Commune Of 1871

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31. Gurea falangista zen

By: Alberto Barandiarán

3.38

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

80 urte bete zituenean, luzez gordean izandako libreta gris bat erakutsi eta “egin nahi duzuna” esa… read more

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