Maltaverne: Un adolescent d'autrefois
By: François Mauriac
3.54
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
English, French (translation)
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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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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"...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. Cousin Bette
By: Honoré de Balzac , Francine Prose , Kathleen Raine
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially s… read more
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6. Paulina 1880
By: Pierre Jean Jouve
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Paulina Pandolfini. Nee a Milan le 14 juin 1849. Fille cadette de Mario Giuseppe Pandolfini et de L… read more
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7. The Counterfeiters
By: André Gide
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more
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8. Men of Maize
By: Miguel Ángel Asturias , Gerald Martin
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. The Tin Drum
By: Günter Grass
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more
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10. Narcissus and Goldmund
By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro
4.05
Format: 336 pages,
Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more
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11. The First Man
By: Albert Camus , David Hapgood
3.97
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of a car accident in whic… read more
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"Je réclame l'indépendance dans l'interdépendance."-Albert Camus, The First Man
"Ceux qui [suscitent] l'amour,même déchus, sont les rois et les justificateurs du monde."-Albert Camus, The First Man
"Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death."-Albert Camus, The First Man
"Il faudrait vivre en spectateur de sa propre vie. Pour y ajouter le rêve qui l'achèverait. Mais on vit, et les autres rêvent votre vie."-Albert Camus, The First Man
12. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
13. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.22
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more
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14. Beyond This Place
By: A.J. Cronin
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his fath… read more
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15. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
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16. Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
By: Jerome K. Jerome
4.60
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a j… read more
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17. Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (Les Rougon-Macquart, #6)
By: Émile Zola
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
En 1856, Eugene Rougon, un ancien avocat de province qui a contribue a faire l'Empire et que l'Empi… read more
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18. Exile and the Kingdom
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
3.46
Format: 32 pages,
These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at decisive, … read more
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19. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)
By: Virginie Despentes
3.10
Format: None pages,
QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more
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20. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
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. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
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23. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By: Victor Hugo , Walter J. Cobb
4.02
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of i… read more
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"Homo homini monstrum"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"Oh! Everything I loved!"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
"a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God"-Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
24. The Books of Jacob
By: Olga Tokarczuk
4.02
Format: 965 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more
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"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
25. First Person Singular: Stories
By: Haruki Murakami
3.54
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"It’s important in life to get used to losing."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories
26. Nights of Plague
By: Orhan Pamuk
3.58
Format: 683 pages, Hardcover
From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic--a… read more
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27. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
28. White
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a de… read more
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"[I]t seems that everyone has fallen under the thrall of this idea that we’re all writers and dramatists now, that each of us has a special voice and something very important to say, usually about a f…"-Bret Easton Ellis, White
29. Le Mariage de Figaro
By: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
3.53
Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, j… read more
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30. 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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31. Maltaverne: Un adolescent d'autrefois
By: François Mauriac
3.54
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
English, French (translation) read more
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