8 best-selling france books like L'Héritage by Guy de Maupassant

Cover of L'Héritage by Guy de Maupassant

L'Héritage

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.55

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Un fonctionnaire modeste et veuf donne en - mariage à son jeune et ambitieux collègue sa fille uniq…

If you liked the france plot in L'Héritage by Guy de Maupassant , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
"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

Cover of The Kreutzer Sonata by Doris Lessing, Leo Tolstoy, Isai Kamen

2. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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  • classics
  • audiobook
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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3. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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  • classics
Cover of My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, Erdağ M. Göknar

4. My Name is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more

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5. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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  • classics
Cover of L'Avare by Molière

6. L'Avare

By: Molière

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harpagon est un vieillard odieux et avare. Avare jusqu'au ridicule, puisqu'il fait comparaitre en j… read more

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  • classics
  • france
Cover of L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7) by Émile Zola, Robin Buss

7. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
Cover of El baile by Irène Némirovsky, Gemma Moral Bartolomé

8. El baile

By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé

3.67

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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9. The Name of the Rose

By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver

4.14

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more

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  • classics
"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."

-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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10. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • classics
  • audiobook
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Cover of The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, Ana Goldstein

11. The Baron in the Trees

By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more

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  • classics
"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."

-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

12. The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1)

By: Alexandre Dumas

3.57

Format: None pages,

When d'Artagnan goes to Paris to become a Musketeer, he embarks on a swashbuckling adventure with t… read more

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13. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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Paul Hammond

14. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

15. L'orangeraie

By: Larry Tremblay

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Quand Amed pleure, Aziz pleure aussi. Quand Aziz rit, Amed rit aussi. Ces freres jumeaux auraient p… read more

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16. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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17. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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18. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

Cover of Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

19. Tender Is the Night

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.78

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more

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  • classics
  • france
"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

Cover of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen

20. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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  • classics
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

21. 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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22. Thinner

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wastin… read more

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  • audiobook
"Purpurfargade ansiktet"

-Stephen King, Thinner

"It's the people who aren't scared who die young."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all."

-Stephen King, Thinner

"The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing."

-Stephen King, Thinner

23. The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more

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Cover of Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk, Andrew Delbanco

24. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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  • classics
  • audiobook
"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

25. The Island of the Colorblind

By: Oliver Sacks

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hatand An Anthropologist on Marsc… read more

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26. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more

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27. Kitelepítés

By: András Visky

4.25

Format: 444 pages, Hardcover

Egy ​osztrák-magyar család a román gulágon. Az 1956-os forradalom után Visky András református lel… read more

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28. L'Héritage

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.55

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Un fonctionnaire modeste et veuf donne en - mariage à son jeune et ambitieux collègue sa fille uniq… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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Transform Your Habits

The Kreutzer Sonata

Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

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Ubik

Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

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Thinner

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.77

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Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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