The Open Road
By: Jean Giono
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by …
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1. 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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- french literature
- 20th century
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-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)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-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)
2. Vadideki Zambak
By: Honoré de Balzac , Volkan Yalçıntoklu
3.72
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): 19. yy Fransız edebiyatının büyük ismi. Edebi kariyerine oyun yazarak… read more
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- literature
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"Çok mutluyum, mutluluk benim için bir hastalık gibidir, beni yorar ve bir düş gibi silinip gitmesinden korkarım."-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak
"Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux."-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak
"Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais …"-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak
"Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız. Sonra, bütün varlığımız acı deneylerden geçtiği, insanların ve olayların içine düştüğümüz zaman her şey, yavaş…"-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak
3. The Pure and the Impure
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Herma Briffault
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to… read more
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"Lecz kobiecie z trudem przychodzi nie oddac sie mezczyznie"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"Istnieje mniej sposobow uprawiania milosci, niz sie mowi, lecz duzo wiecej, niz sie mysli."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually."-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
"Niczego mi w zyciu nie braklo, ani urody, ani szczescia, ani nieszczescia; ani mezczyzn, ani kobiet...to dopiero mozna nazwac zyciem!"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Pure and the Impure
4. The Roots of Heaven
By: Romain Gary
4.13
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
"Well, I finally got an idea. When he fails, do like me: think about free elephant ride through Afr… read more
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- 20th century
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"...misanthropy, hatred of mankind, is the order of the day."-Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
"... I don’t like people who mistake their private neurosis for a philosophical outlook."-Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
". . . distance and imagination which is almost always indispensable to the birth of legends."-Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
"She must have said to herself that one can always rely on a gentleman when it’s a question of not understanding a woman."-Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven
5. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)
By: Patricia Highsmith
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
"Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso … read more
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- fiction
6. Alien Hearts
By: Guy de Maupassant , Richard Howard
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of… read more
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7. 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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8. Le Blé en herbe
By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , None
3.44
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Son ami plongea brusquement, saisit un pied de Vinca et la tira sous la vague. Ils burent ensemble… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
- novels
"Philippe did not know how to express such a thought as: 'All too few are the occasions in life when, with mind content, eyes surfeited with beauty, heart light, retentive, and almost empty, there com…"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Le Blé en herbe
"Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, …"-Colette Gauthier-Villars, Le Blé en herbe
9. The Plague of Doves
By: Louise Erdrich
4.64
Format: None pages,
The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, gene… read more
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10. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
By: Robert Aickman
4.40
Format: 436 pages,
Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more
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- fiction
11. The Unknown Masterpiece
By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more
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- france
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12. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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13. 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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- modern classics
- 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)
14. The Complete Stories
By: Franz Kafka , John Updike , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir , James Stern , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Nahum N. Glatzer , None
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Me… read more
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15. LaRose
By: Louise Erdrich
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more
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16. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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17. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
18. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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19. The Open Road
By: Jean Giono
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by … read more
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20. Living Pictures
By: Polina Barskova
3.58
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the … read more
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