17 must-read classics books like Madeleine Ferat by Émile Zola

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Madeleine Ferat

By: Émile Zola

3.59

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Émile Zola (1840-1902), né à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et homme public français, considér…

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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
"هناك فهمت حقيقة مهمة: في اليابان، الحياة هي الشركة."

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

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

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

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

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

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

-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements

Cover of Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac

2. Albert Savarus

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.55

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781419105340 Rosalie is the only daughter of the Wattevilles, a… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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3. House of Names

By: Colm Tóibín

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her de… read more

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"The memory of my name will last longer than the lives of many men."

-Colm Tóibín, House of Names

"You must live with what you did,’ Leander said. ‘What you did is all you have."

-Colm Tóibín, House of Names

"I have been acquainted with the smell of death. The sickly, sugary smell that wafted in the wind towards the rooms in this palace. It is easy now for me to feel peaceful and content."

-Colm Tóibín, House of Names

"He stopped going to his own bed, waiting instead until Leander was ready for bed and then going to the room with him, the dog once more in his wake. He began to look forward to the night, to what hap…"

-Colm Tóibín, House of Names

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4. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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  • classics
"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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5. Gabriel Lambert

By: Alexandre Dumas , Anne-Marie Callet-Bianco

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Pocket Book

Un roman très peu connu, écrit par Dumas seul, paru la même année que Les Trois Mousquetaires, avec… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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6. The Feast of the Goat

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

4.33

Format: 475 pages, Paperback

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more

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  • classics
"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

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

7. 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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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"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

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8. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • classics
  • france
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9. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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10. Miss Harriet

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature

11. The Long Valley

By: John Steinbeck

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set … read more

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12. Honorine

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.50

Format: None pages,

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13. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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14. L'anulare

By: Yōko Ogawa , Cristiana Ceci

3.47

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Quando viene assunta dall’impeccabile signor Deshimaru, la giovane protagonista di questo libro eni… read more

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15. The Gods Will Have Blood

By: Anatole France , Frederick Davies

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1912, when Anatole France was sixty-eight, The Gods Will Have Bloodis the story of Gam… read more

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16. I racconti di Pietroburgo

By: Nikolai Gogol , Pietro Zveteremich

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nei racconti del ciclo pietroburghese la capitale (che all'ucraino Gogol appare come una citta non … read more

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17. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

18. Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors

By: Marquis de Sade , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel , Tomer Hanuka

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Philosophy of the Boudoirfollows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugeni… read more

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19. 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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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"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

20. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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21. Les Liaisons dangereuses

By: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , Douglas Parmée

4.06

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of … read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"J'ai vécu"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?"

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

"...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime."

-Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

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22. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

23. Yakıcı Sır

By: Stefan Zweig , İlknur İgan

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kisa bir tatil icin Avusturya Alplerine giden bir baron, zamanini zararsiz bir flortle renklendirme… read more

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24. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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25. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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  • 19th century
  • classics
"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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26. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"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

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27. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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28. Abbandonare un gatto

By: Haruki Murakami

3.57

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Nei suoi romanzi e racconti Murakami ha creato un’infinità di mondi, e ne ha svelato ogni segreto a… read more

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29. Life for Sale

By: Yukio Mishima

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more

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  • classics
"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

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30. 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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  • 19th century
  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"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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31. Madeleine Ferat

By: Émile Zola

3.59

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Émile Zola (1840-1902), né à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et homme public français, considér… read more

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  • classics
  • 19th century
  • classic literature
  • european literature
  • france
  • french literature

13 must-read france books like Madeleine Ferat by Émile Zola

Transform Your Habits

Stupeur et tremblements

Amélie Nothomb

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Albert Savarus

Honoré de Balzac

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Gabriel Lambert

Alexandre Dumas , Anne-Marie Callet-Bianco

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

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20 must-read fiction books like War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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