9 Best classics books like Le Général Dourakine by Comtesse de Ségur

Cover of Le Général Dourakine by Comtesse de Ségur

Le Général Dourakine

By: Comtesse de Ségur

3.79

Format: 190 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de Ségur, née Sofia Fedorovna Rostoptchina (1799-1874), est une femme …

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Cover of Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Lewis Galantibre

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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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
"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 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

2. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2) by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

3. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

"It's very difficult to phone people in China, Mr President,' said the Postmaster General. 'The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."

-Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Cover of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

4. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, Libby Purves, Geoff Woollen

5. The Last Day of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

6. Verte

By: Marie Desplechin

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A onze ans, la petite Verte ne montre toujours aucun talent pour la sorcellerie. Pire que cela, ell… read more

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  • france
  • childrens
  • fiction

7. Boy: Tales of Childhood

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankste… read more

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8. Fables

By: Jean de la Fontaine

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Une tortue, un corbeau, un lievre, une fourmi, un lion, et meme un pot au lait : autant de figures … read more

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9. Vipère au poing

By: Hervé Bazin

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Vipere au poing, c'est le combat impitoyable livre par Jean Rezeau dit Brasse-Bouillon, et ses frer… read more

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10. Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen , Robert William Chapman

3.65

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marria… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
"I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"How little the general report of any one ought to be credited, since no character, however upright, can escape the malevolence of slander."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

"...though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her."

-Jane Austen, Lady Susan

11. A Little Princess

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Nancy Bond

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary … read more

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12. Kensuke's Kingdom

By: Michael Morpurgo , Michael Foreman

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent's yacht, the Pe… read more

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13. The Wave

By: Todd Strasser , Morton Rhue

4.33

Format: None pages,

The Waveis based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, Calif… read more

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Cover of Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat by Stefan Zweig, Mahmure Kahraman

14. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."

-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

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

-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

Cover of On the Wandering Paths (Univocal) by Sylvain Tesson

15. On the Wandering Paths (Univocal)

By: Sylvain Tesson

3.51

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and… read more

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  • france
"Le paysage était devenu le décor du passage. La ruralité s'instituait en principe de résistance à cet emportement général."

-Sylvain Tesson, On the Wandering Paths (Univocal)

"Nous étions nombreux à développer une allergie aux illusions virutuelles. Les sommations de l'époquenous fatiguaient : "Enjoy! Take care ! Be safe !Be connected !" Nous étions dégoûtés du clignotemen…"

-Sylvain Tesson, On the Wandering Paths (Univocal)

Cover of Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5) by Shannon Messenger

16. Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5)

By: Shannon Messenger

4.25

Format: 764 pages, Kindle Edition

Book 8.5 in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series delivers … read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Love, Keefe"

-Shannon Messenger, Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5)

Cover of Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #2) by Jessica Townsend

17. Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #2)

By: Jessica Townsend

4.48

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Wunder is gathering in Nevermoor ... Morrigan Crow may have defeated her deadly curse, passed th… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Morrigan frowned. She sometimes felt that her true knack had nothing to do with being a Wundersmith. That it was, in fact, her remarkable ability to assume the worst. It came, of course, from a lifet…"

-Jessica Townsend, Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #2)

Cover of Les soeurs hiver by Jolan Chloé Bertrand

18. Les soeurs hiver

By: Jolan Chloé Bertrand

4.03

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Il y a très longtemps, il y avait deux hivers : la Grande, avec ses froids polaires et ses blizzard… read more

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  • france
  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

19. Ayesha at Last

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has a lot g… read more

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  • fiction
"No, she is not with child,"

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

"[Khalid] took a deep, calming breath, and smiled at her, channeling his inner shark. Or at least, dolphin."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

"Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said. 'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

"Your presence in a relationship is not indicative of commitment but rather inertia. Standing before your friends and family and pledging your love and loyalty is an essential ingredient of a long-las…"

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last

Cover of Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck

20. Pavilion of Women

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.15

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Good Earth comes the story of Madame Wu, a woman whose surprising decision t… read more

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  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
"The lie deceives no one so much as the one who tells it."

-Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women

"Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had …"

-Pearl S. Buck, Pavilion of Women

Cover of Le Général Dourakine by Comtesse de Ségur

21. Le Général Dourakine

By: Comtesse de Ségur

3.79

Format: 190 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sophie Rostopchine, comtesse de Ségur, née Sofia Fedorovna Rostoptchina (1799-1874), est une femme … read more

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  • classics
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • france
  • fiction

13 Best fiction books like Le Général Dourakine by Comtesse de Ségur

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Antigone

Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Transform Your Habits

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

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Transform Your Habits

Altıncı Koğuş

Anton Chekhov , None , Yulva Muhurcişi

4.26

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

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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