5 must-read classics books like Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti

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Madame Chrysantheme

By: Pierre Loti

3.01

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) enjoyed great popularity during the author’s lifetim…

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Cover of Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb

1. Stupeur et tremblements

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.73

Format: 187 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for isbn13: 9782253150718 Au début des années 90, la narratr… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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"هناك فهمت حقيقة مهمة: في اليابان، الحياة هي الشركة."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"أما فوبوكي فلم تكن لا إلها ولا شيطانا, كانت امرأة يابانية"

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"كان يابانيا من بين آلاف آخرين، عبدا وجلادا في الوقت نفسه."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

"Le donne che non hanno il diritto di sognare portano nomi che fanno sognare"

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

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2. Empire of Signs

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature,… read more

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"The text does not gloss the images, which do not illustrate the text."

-Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs

"In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject."

-Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs

Cover of The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw

3. The Winter of Our Discontent

By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw

4.01

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Cover of Tsubaki (Le poids des secrets #1) by Aki Shimazaki

4. Tsubaki (Le poids des secrets #1)

By: Aki Shimazaki

3.95

Format: 114 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dans une lettre laissée à sa fille après sa mort, Yukiko, une survivante de la bombe atomique, évoq… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
  • japan
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5. The River Ki

By: Sawako Ariyoshi , Mildred Tahara

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The River Ki, short and swift and broad like most Japanese rivers, flows into the sea not far south… read more

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6. 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
  • french literature
  • fiction
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7. Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit

By: Delphine de Vigan

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

La douleur de Lucile, ma mere, a fait partie de notre enfance et plus tard de notre vie d'adulte, l… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
Cover of I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres, Dave Navarro

8. I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

By: Pamela Des Barres , Dave Navarro

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1… read more

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9. Bobok

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.48

Format: 22 pages, Paperback

"Bobok" (Russian: Бобок, Bobok) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that first appeared in 1873.… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
"Acho que o mais inteligente é quem ao menos uma vez por mês chama a si mesmo de imbecil — capacidade de que hoje não se ouve falar!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok

"I don't like it when people with only a general education rush to solve problems best left to specialists; and that happens all of the time among us."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bobok

10. Devotion

By: Patti Smith

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative … read more

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11. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I

By: Alexandre Dumas , Jean-Yves Tadié , Gilbert Sigaux

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tome I de II. << On fit encore quatre ou cinq pas en montant toujours, puis Dantes sentit qu'on le … read more

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12. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

13. Balzac: le roman de sa vie

By: Stefan Zweig , Fernand Delmas

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

La vie de Balzac est un prodigieux roman. Accable de dettes, immerge dans un titanesque labeur d'ec… read more

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14. 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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  • france
  • french literature
"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

Cover of Le Silence et la Colère by Pierre Lemaitre

15. Le Silence et la Colère

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.23

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Un ogre de béton, une vilaine chute dans l’escalier, le Salon des arts ménagers, une grossesse prob… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner

16. Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

By: Anne Glenconner

4.06

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of … read more

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"According to Princess Margaret, "You can't possibly have a picnic without your butler."

-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

"One of the protocols of being in the company of a member of the Royal Family is that if they are standing, you have to stand - you can't sit down until they do. They seem to do an awful lot of standi…"

-Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

Cover of 赤い指 [Akai yubi] (加賀恭一郎, #7) by Keigo Higashino

17. 赤い指 [Akai yubi] (加賀恭一郎, #7)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.95

Format: 278 pages, Tankōbon

犯罪を越えたその先に、本当の闇がある。二日間の悪夢と、孤独な愛情の物語。 read more

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  • japan
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18. A Single Rose

By: Muriel Barbery

3.45

Format: 160 pages, ebook

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey … read more

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  • french literature
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"Rain filtered in scattered drops from the leaves; everywhere, an extraordinary moss ruled supreme over its private kingdom; thick and moving, poised on root and stone, it seemed to glitter."

-Muriel Barbery, A Single Rose

Cover of The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors) by Guy de Maupassant

19. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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20. Fractured Soul

By: Akira Mizubayashi

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring… read more

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  • fiction
  • japan
"« C’est un livre magnifique. En pleine période de folie fasciste et d’engouement militariste et ultranationaliste, Yoshino a eu l’audace d’écrire, à l’intention des jeunes Japonais, un livre qui prôn…"

-Akira Mizubayashi, Fractured Soul

Cover of Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti

21. Madame Chrysantheme

By: Pierre Loti

3.01

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) enjoyed great popularity during the author’s lifetim… read more

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  • 19th century
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  • french literature
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Stupeur et tremblements

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3.73

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The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw

4.01

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Tsubaki (Le poids des secrets #1)

Aki Shimazaki

3.95

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4.00

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Eleanor Prescott

5.00

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3.45

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Irena Svetek

4.42

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Mathieu Belezi

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