13 must-read fiction books like Le Temps retrouvé, 2 (A la recherche du temps perdu, 15) by Marcel Proust

Cover of Le Temps retrouvé, 2 (A la recherche du temps perdu, 15) by Marcel Proust

Le Temps retrouvé, 2 (A la recherche du temps perdu, 15)

By: Marcel Proust

4.77

Format: 230 pages, None

De nombreuses années se sont écoulées et le narrateur, malade, a passé de longs séjours en province…

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Cover of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore

1. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

2. 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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  • classic literature
  • classics
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher Prendergast

3. 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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  • classics
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Misery begets equality."

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

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

-Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet

Cover of The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, Ronald Wilks

4. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Michael Cunningham, Michael Henry Heim

5. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Cover of Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Dovid Bergelson

6. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • french literature
  • 20th century
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Cover of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Dows Herter Norton

7. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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  • fiction

9. The Albertine Workout

By: Anne Carson

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Albertine Workout contains fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson's re… read more

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10. The Dain Curse

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside jo… read more

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11. Proust

By: Samuel Beckett

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a lar… read more

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12. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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13. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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  • french literature
  • fiction
"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

14. 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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15. A Country Doctor

By: Franz Kafka , Kevin Blahut , None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Written during the winter of 1916-17 when Kafka was living in one of the tiny houses on Golden Lane… read more

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Cover of Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée

16. 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
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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

17. Persian Letters

By: Montesquieu , None

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their … read more

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18. Le Consentement

By: Vanessa Springora

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Au milieu des années 1980, élevée par une mère divorcée, V. comble par la lecture le vide laissé pa… read more

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  • french literature
"Si las relaciones sexuales entre un adulto y un menor de quince años son ilegales, ¿por qué esa tolerancia cuando son obra del representante de una élite, un fotógrafo, un escritor, un cineasta o un …"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"No, ese hombre no albergaba los mejores sentimientos. Ese hombre no era bueno. Era lo que aprendemos a temer desde niños: un ogro. Nuestro amor era un sueño tan potente que nada, ni una sola de las p…"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"I would recall my mission in life - pleasuring men. That was my condition, my status. And so I would offer my services anew, with renewed zeal, and with a simulated conviction that I even managed to …"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"What he loved more than anything was making love. Who could blame him? When it came to sex, I oscillated between feeling all-powerful and completely apathetic. Sometimes I was filled with a feeling o…"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

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19. Om udregning af rumfang I

By: Solvej Balle

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang I'' er første del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i genr… read more

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  • fiction
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20. 11%

By: Maren Uthaug

3.61

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

“Du kan jo overveje, hvorfor der er så mange ord, der aldrig er lavet i feminin form. Som drabsmand… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Du kan jo overveje, hvorfor der er så mange ord, der aldrig er lavet i feminin form. Som drabsmand og voldtægtsmand. Eller krigsherre."

-Maren Uthaug, 11%

Cover of Le Temps retrouvé, 2 (A la recherche du temps perdu, 15) by Marcel Proust

21. Le Temps retrouvé, 2 (A la recherche du temps perdu, 15)

By: Marcel Proust

4.77

Format: 230 pages, None

De nombreuses années se sont écoulées et le narrateur, malade, a passé de longs séjours en province… read more

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  • lgbt
  • classic literature
  • french literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction

9 Top classics books like Le Temps retrouvé, 2 (A la recherche du temps perdu, 15) by Marcel Proust

Transform Your Habits

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

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99 francs (14,99 Euros)

Frédéric Beigbeder

4.14

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Immortality

Milan Kundera

4.14

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