8 Best theatre books like Antigone suivi de Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel by jean-cocteau

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Antigone suivi de Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel

By: jean-cocteau

3.45

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

«Antigone est ma sainte», disait Cocteau. C'est pourquoi il a traduit et «contracté» la pièce de So…

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Cover of L'Écume des jours by Boris Vian

1. L'Écume des jours

By: Boris Vian

3.93

Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more

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  • fiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • 20th century
"Per me, ciccino mio"

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

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2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • fiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • 20th century
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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3. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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  • fiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • 20th century
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4. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • plays
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5. Les Combustibles

By: Amélie Nothomb

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • plays
  • france
  • fiction
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6. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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7. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
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8. 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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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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9. Pierre et Jean

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Pierre, medecin, ne comprend pas pourquoi un ami de sa famille a legue sa fortune a Jean, son frere… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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10. Britannicus

By: Jean Racine

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Une mere autoritaire et possessive, un fils sournois et pervers, un vertueux demi-frere par allianc… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • plays
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11. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Complete Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.23

Format: 1344 pages, Paperback

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"The thing I fear most is fear."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"We should tend our freedom wisely."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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13. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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14. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

By: Charles Baudelaire , None

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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  • france
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15. From the Earth to the Moon

By: Jules Verne

3.76

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Een in de 19e eeuw geschreven verhaal over een reis naar de maan, waaruit blijkt dat de schrijver i… read more

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  • french literature
  • fiction
"Time has no business to keep a whole country in suspense."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"No sé si los mundos están habitados, y como no lo sé, voy a verlo."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure"

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

"In fact they did to others that which they would not they should do to them— that grand principle of immortality upon which rests the whole art of war."

-Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

16. Petit pays

By: Gaël Faye

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l… read more

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17. Noces / L'été

By: Albert Camus

3.58

Format: None pages,

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18. The Misanthrope

By: Molière

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Misanthropeor Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureuxis a comedy of manners in five acts and i… read more

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19. La Gloire de mon père

By: Marcel Pagnol

3.94

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Je suis ne dans la ville d'Aubagne, sous le Garlaban couronne de chevres, au temps des derniers che… read more

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20. Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard

By: Pierre de Marivaux

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Pour juger de la qualite du fiance qu'on voudrait lui imposer, Silvia prend la place de Lisette, sa… read more

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21. Zadig et autres contes

By: Voltaire

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

" Je vous offre la traduction d'un livre d'un ancien sage, qui, ayant le bonheur de n'avoir rien à … read more

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  • french literature
  • fiction
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Ci adoriamo, ma abbiamo paura di amarci; bruciamo ambedue di un fuoco che condanniamo."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Foi (de Zoroastro) que as nações herdaram este grande princípio: É preferível arriscar-se a salvar um culpado que condenar um inocente."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Le moment où l'on se retrouve, et celui où l'on se sépare, sont les deux plus grandes époques de la vie, comme dit le grand livre du Zend."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

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22. 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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  • france
  • 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

23. Andromaque

By: Jean Racine

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Fin d'une guerre ou l'on crie malheur aux vaincus. Prise d'otages. Chantage sur un enfant. Complot.… read more

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24. Bruges-La-Morte

By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more

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25. Il ne faut jurer de rien

By: Alfred de Musset

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

A Paris en 1830, Valentin aime l'alcool, le jeu et les femmes. Il ne croit pas en grand chose et su… read more

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26. 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

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27. 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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  • plays
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28. Horace

By: Pierre Corneille

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Horace et Le Cid de Corneille ont lancé la tragédie classique française. C'est une pièce sombre qui… read more

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  • france
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Cover of Les deux soeurs précédé de Une histoire au crépuscule by Stefan Zweig

29. Les deux soeurs précédé de Une histoire au crépuscule

By: Stefan Zweig

3.75

Format: 118 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Dans chaque coeur ici-bas circulent d'étranges sentiers de contrebande entre le Bien et le Mal, la… read more

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30. Médée

By: Pierre Corneille

3.45

Format: None pages, ebook

Cette édition classique a été convertie par eBooksLib.com. read more

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  • france
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31. Antigone suivi de Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel

By: jean-cocteau

3.45

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

«Antigone est ma sainte», disait Cocteau. C'est pourquoi il a traduit et «contracté» la pièce de So… read more

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18 Top fiction books like Antigone suivi de Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel by jean-cocteau

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L'Écume des jours

Boris Vian

3.93

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The Lover

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

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Amok and Other Stories

Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell

3.55

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Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

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Gargantua

Andrew Brown , François Rabelais , Paul Bailey

2.50

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