5 Top short stories books like Le geste d'Eve by Henri Troyat

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Le geste d'Eve

By: Henri Troyat

3.53

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

By: Douglas Adams

4.37

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy * The Restaurant at the End of the Universe * Life, the Un… read more

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"Funny", he intoned funerally, "how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does."

-Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."

-Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

"Your arrival on the planet has caused considerable excitement. It has already been hailed, so I gather, as the third most improbable event in the history of the Universe."

-Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

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2. Kolyma Tales

By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов

4.36

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more

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  • short stories
"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

"Помню,  как в  предзимнюю пору  холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."

-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

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3. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more

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"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

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4. Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

By: Thomas Harding

4.31

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE The untold story of the man who brought a mastermind of the final solu… read more

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"In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others."

-Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

"The British government had become fearful of how its citizens would react to a wave of Jewish refugees from Germany, and had clamped down on immigration."

-Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

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5. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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6. Eugénie Grandet

By: Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?" This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabi… read more

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  • french literature
"Misery begets equality."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"[...] ironia este însușirea fundamentală a providenței"

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"این نقطه اشتراک زن ها و فرشته هاست. رنج بشریت مال آن هاست."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

"Bilgisi arttıktan sonra, erdem de günah kadar hesap yapar."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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7. Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Detective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal b… read more

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8. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

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9. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)

By: Agatha Christie

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Amyas Crale, un peintre celebre, a ete assassine, et sa femme, condamnee pour ce meurtre. Seize ans… read more

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10. 1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts

By: Florian Illies

4.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1913 Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unv… read more

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11. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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  • short stories
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12. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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13. Plus tard, je serai un enfant

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Pour la premiere fois, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt se confie et evoque son enfance avec une emouvante sin… read more

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14. The Two-Penny Bar (Maigret, #11)

By: Georges Simenon , David Watson

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Penguin relaunch of Georges Simenon's incomparable books continues with four new Inspector Maig… read more

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15. India Song

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the dis… read more

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16. Imparfaits, libres et heureux: Pratiques de l'estime de soi

By: Christophe André

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cet ouvrage, tourne vers la pratique quotidienne de l'estime de soi, devoile aussi les directions n… read more

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17. The Queen of Spades

By: Alexander Pushkin , None

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The Queen of Spades(Russian: Pikovaya dama) is an acclaimed short story by Alexander Pushkin about … read more

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18. War's Unwomanly Face

By: None , Svetlana Alexievich

4.51

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more

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"War kills time, precious human time."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

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19. 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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  • short stories
"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."

-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

"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"

-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

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20. Bel-Ami

By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more

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  • french literature
"In fact living is dying."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"The only certainty is death."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"I drink to the victory of the mind over the millions."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

21. L'évangile selon Pilate

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Premiere partie : Dans le jardin des oliviers, un homme attend que les soldats viennent l'arreter p… read more

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22. The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)

By: Jo Nesbø

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and beh… read more

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23. Zuleiha deschide ochii

By: Guzel Yakhina

4.39

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm l… read more

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"„Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiuni"

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiunii."

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Мысли – не речка, плотиной не перегородишь; пусть текут."

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Метлой по спине – это не больно. Почти как веником. Зулейха лежит смирно, как и велел муж, только вздрагивает и царапает ногтями лэукэ при каждом ударе, – поэтому бьет он недолго. Быстро остывает. Вс…"

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

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24. Dans les brumes de Capelans

By: Olivier Norek

4.41

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

Une île de l'Atlantique battue par les vents, le brouillard et la neige. Un flic qui a disparu depu… read more

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  • french literature
Cover of Sur la Dalle (Commissaire Adamsberg, #12) by Fred Vargas

25. Sur la Dalle (Commissaire Adamsberg, #12)

By: Fred Vargas

3.54

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

"— Le dolmen dont tu m’as parlé, Johan, il est bien sur la route du petit pont ? — À deux kilomètre… read more

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  • french literature
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26. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • short stories
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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27. Le Défi de Jérusalem: Un voyage en Terre Sainte

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

3.87

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

« Marcher là-bas, où tout a commencé. »  Après La Nuit de feu, où Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt décrivai… read more

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28. Le Grand Monde

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

La famille Pelletier Trois histoires d’amour, un lanceur d’alerte, une adolescente égarée, deux pr… read more

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  • french literature
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29. Couleurs de l'incendie

By: Pierre Lemaitre

4.14

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

Février 1927. Le Tout-Paris assiste aux obsèques de Marcel Péricourt. Sa fille, Madeleine, doit pre… read more

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  • french literature
Cover of La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) by Michael McDowell

30. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

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31. Le geste d'Eve

By: Henri Troyat

3.53

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

poche. broché. read more

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  • short stories
  • french literature

7 Best french literature books like Le geste d'Eve by Henri Troyat

Transform Your Habits

Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Bel-Ami

Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Dans les brumes de Capelans

Olivier Norek

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Sur la Dalle (Commissaire Adamsberg, #12)

Fred Vargas

3.54

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Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Stalker (Joona Linna, #5)

Lars Kepler

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Eldvittnet (Joona Linna, #3)

Lars Kepler

3.00

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