Cousin Pons
By: Honoré de Balzac , Herbert J. Hunt
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has…
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1. Cousin Pons
By: Honoré de Balzac , Herbert J. Hunt
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has… read more
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- classic literature
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2. Our Mutual Friend
By: Charles Dickens
4.09
Format: 801 pages, Paperback
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the in… read more
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"I really am a little afraid, my dear,"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
"Demon—with the highest respect for you—behold your work!"-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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4. Carmen
By: Prosper Mérimée
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Carmen is a novella by Prosper Merimee, written & 1st published in 1845. It has been adapted into a… read more
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5. Bérénice
By: Jean Racine
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Berenice, au centre de l'oeuvre de son auteur, en 1670, est une piece singuliere dans la production… read more
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6. 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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7. The Nun
By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more
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8. The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more
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9. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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10. The Charterhouse of Parma
By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig
3.79
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more
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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma
11. Tartarin of Tarascon
By: Alphonse Daudet
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the first place you must know that everybody is shooting mad in these parts, from the greatest t… read more
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12. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
13. On the Eve
By: Ivan Turgenev
3.84
Format: 464 pages,
First published in 1859, On the Eve(of the Russian revolution) is another of Turgenev's lyrical ide… read more
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14. Bouvard and Pecuchet
By: Gustave Flaubert , Raymond Queneau , Αχιλλέας Κυριακίδης , None
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce ... A book in which I shall … read more
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15. 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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"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
16. The Captain's Daughter
By: Alexander Pushkin , Robert Chandler
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also … read more
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17. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
18. Poésies / Une saison en enfer / Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
Ici, point de jolis poemes ciseles, de fleurettes ni de petits oiseaux. Pas de rimes savantes ni d'… read more
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19. Humboldt's Gift
By: Saul Bellow
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more
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20. Home of the Gentry
By: Ivan Turgenev , Richard Freeborn
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremenni… read more
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21. Strait is the Gate
By: André Gide
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in th… read more
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