Le Baiser au lépreux
By: François Mauriac
3.67
Format: 192 pages, Pocket Book
Jean Péloueyre est riche, mais d'une laideur peu soutenable. Or voici que pour des raisons pécuniai…
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1. La promesse de l'aube
By: Romain Gary
4.24
Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more
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"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending."-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube
2. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
3. The Age of Reason
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
4.17
Format: None pages,
The first fully Existentialist fiction by the creator of a philosophical movement that captured the… read more
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4. Steps
By: Jerzy Kosiński
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted … read more
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5. The Devil in the Flesh
By: None , Raymond Radiguet
4.40
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris… read more
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6. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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7. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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8. The Infernal Machine and Other Plays
By: None , E.E. Cummings , Jean Cocteau , Dudley Fitts , Albert Bermel , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself … read more
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10. Hygiène de l'assassin
By: Amélie Nothomb
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du mond… read more
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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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12. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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13. Snow
By: Maxence Fermine , None
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
"Yuko Akita had two passions. Haiku. And snow. " An international bestseller, "Snow "is "a novel th… read more
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14. The Diary of a Country Priest
By: Georges Bernanos , Remy Rougeau
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country pries… read more
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15. L'aigle à deux têtes
By: Jean Cocteau
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Empruntant son sujet aux tragiques mysteres des maisons d'Autriche et de Baviere, Cocteau met face … read more
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16. Capital of Pain
By: Paul Éluard , Mary Ann Caws , Patricia Terry
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Capital of Pain, is considered one of the key texts of surrealism. This is the first new translatio… read more
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17. Swallows of Kabul
By: Yasmina Khadra , John Cullen
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been… read more
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18. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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- roman
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"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
19. Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard
By: Pierre de Marivaux
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Pour juger de la qualite du fiance qu'on voudrait lui imposer, Silvia prend la place de Lisette, sa… read more
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20. Delta of Venus
By: Anaïs Nin
4.14
Format: None pages,
In Delta of VenusAnais Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination pos… read more
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21. Rhinocéros
By: Eugène Ionesco , None
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stereotyp… read more
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22. Alcools
By: Guillaume Apollinaire , Donald Revell
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetr… read more
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23. 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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"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
24. Seize the Day
By: Cynthia Ozick , Saul Bellow
4.34
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the ful… read more
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25. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
26. La Décision
By: Karine Tuil
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Mai 2016. Dans une aile ultrasécurisée du Palais de justice, la juge Alma Revel doit se prononcer s… read more
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27. Soif
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.59
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
« Pour éprouver la soif, il faut être vivant. On n’apprend des vérités si fortes qu’en ayant soif, … read more
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"L’amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatur…"-Amélie Nothomb, Soif
"In verità vi dico: ciò che sentite quando state morendo di sete, coltivatelo. Lo slancio mistico non è che questo. E non è una metafora. La fine della fame si chiama sazietà. La fine della stanchezza…"-Amélie Nothomb, Soif
"Ho scelto? Così sembrerebbe. Come ho potuto scegliere di essere me? Per la ragione che presiede la stragrande maggioranza delle scelte: per incoscienza. Se fossimo consapevoli, sceglieremmo di non vi…"-Amélie Nothomb, Soif
28. Enfant de salaud
By: Sorj Chalandon
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Depuis l’enfance, une question torture le narrateur : - Qu’as-tu fait sous l’occupation ? Mais il… read more
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"Ta guerre avait fasciné mon ami historien. Un jour que nous dînions ensemble, il m’a demandé si je n’aurais pas préféré avoir un père “seulement"-Sorj Chalandon, Enfant de salaud
29. Impressions et lignes claires (Récit) (French Edition)
By: Edouard Philippe
4.17
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
Du 15 mai 2017 au 3 juillet 2020, Édouard Philippe a été Premier ministre et Gilles Boyer son conse… read more
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30. Le Baiser au lépreux
By: François Mauriac
3.67
Format: 192 pages, Pocket Book
Jean Péloueyre est riche, mais d'une laideur peu soutenable. Or voici que pour des raisons pécuniai… read more
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31. Le triomphe de l'amour
By: Pierre de Marivaux
3.52
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Léonide, princesse de Sparte, règne sur un trône jadis usurpé par son oncle. Elle désire rendre le … read more
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