11 Best poetry books like Éloges suivi de Gloire des Rois, Anabase, Exil by Saint-John Perse

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Éloges suivi de Gloire des Rois, Anabase, Exil

By: Saint-John Perse

3.54

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

«Palmes... ! Alors on te baignait dans l'eau-de-feuilles-vertes ; et l'eau encore était du soleil …

If you liked the poetry plot in Éloges suivi de Gloire des Rois, Anabase, Exil by Saint-John Perse , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

By: Virginia Woolf

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and… read more

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"I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"J'ai un faible pour les gens qui ne se décident pas à commencer quelque chose."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"I can’t imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—"

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

"Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même."

-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (The Virginia Woolf Library)

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2. The Vagabond

By: Colette Gauthier-Villars , Judith Thurman , Enid McLeod

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supportin… read more

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"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls."

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

"All this is still my kingdom, a small portion of the splendid riches which God distributes to passers-by, to wanderers and to solitaries. The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and…"

-Colette Gauthier-Villars, The Vagabond

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3. Elsa

By: Louis Aragon

4.23

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Ce poème d'Aragon est un "roman achevé", au sens où l'on dit qu'une oeuvre est achevée ; c'est un r… read more

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Cover of The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

4. The Art of the Novel

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes,… read more

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5. Hernani

By: Victor Hugo , John J. Janc

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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7. Le Livre des Baltimore

By: Joël Dicker

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Jusqu'au jour du Drame, il y avait deux familles Goldman. Les Goldman-de-Baltimore et les Goldman-d… read more

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8. The Toilers of the Sea

By: Victor Hugo , Graham Robb , James Hogarth

3.14

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, whic… read more

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9. Émaux et Camées

By: Théophile Gautier

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

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10. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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11. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

By: Lady Sarashina , Ivan Morris

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

In the mainstream of Japan's literary tradition, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreamsnot only reveals mu… read more

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12. The Satyricon

By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more

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Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

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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"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. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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15. 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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16. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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17. Les Regrets / Les Antiquités de Rome

By: Joachim du Bellay

3.79

Format: 160 pages,

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18. Poésies complètes

By: Arthur Rimbaud

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Si l'on devait citer le poete qui a exerce l'influence la plus profonde sur la poesie du debut du X… read more

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19. Poems and Fragments

By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more

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20. Poésies / Une saison en enfer / Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

3.21

Format: 192 pages,

Ici, point de jolis poemes ciseles, de fleurettes ni de petits oiseaux. Pas de rimes savantes ni d'… read more

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21. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

22. Le Capitaine Fracasse

By: Théophile Gautier

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pour l'amour de l'ingenue d'une troupe de comediens nomades, le jeune baron de Sigognac qui se morf… read more

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23. The Figure in the Carpet

By: Henry James

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20t… read more

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24. Fureur et Mystère

By: René Char

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

« Pourquoi le cacher ? Ce n'est pas une poésie facile. Ses difficultés sont à proportion, en nous,… read more

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"The oriole entered the capital of dawn. The sword of his song closed the sad bed. Everything forever ended."

-René Char, Fureur et Mystère

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25. Les Pleurs

By: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

« J’écris tout bas » : être femme et poète au XIXe siècle n’est pas chose aisée, Marceline Desborde… read more

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26. Bajazet

By: Jean Racine

3.50

Format: 100 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with stran… read more

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27. Les Complaintes

By: Jules Laforgue

3.27

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le plus connu des poètes méconnus de la fin du siècle passé, Jules Laforgue, est mort à vingt-sept … read more

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"Ô Terre, ô terre, ô race humaine, / vous me faites bien de la peine."

-Jules Laforgue, Les Complaintes

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28. Éloges suivi de Gloire des Rois, Anabase, Exil

By: Saint-John Perse

3.54

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

«Palmes... ! Alors on te baignait dans l'eau-de-feuilles-vertes ; et l'eau encore était du soleil … read more

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29. Eupalinos ; L'âme et la danse ; Dialogue de l'arbre

By: Paul Valéry

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Cover of Le Drageoir aux épices suivi de Croquis parisiens (Poésie) by Joris-Karl Huysmans

30. Le Drageoir aux épices suivi de Croquis parisiens (Poésie)

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans

2.93

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Si Huysmans est connu pour être un romancier et nouvelliste majeur et à l'influence durable de notr… read more

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31. Jadis et naguère

By: Paul Verlaine

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"De la musique avant toute chose." C'est dans sa prison de Belgique que Verlaine proclame les dogme… read more

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9 Best classics books like As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan by Lady Sarashina, Ivan Morris

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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Anonymous , Yasunari Kawabata , Donald Keene

3.79

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The Tale of Genji

Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu

3.90

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Murasaki Shikibu , Richard Bowring

3.66

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3.91

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