16 must-read classics books like Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, Robin Buss

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Thérèse Raquin

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.73

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of…

"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir a jamais troublé leur vie."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir à jamais troublé leur vie."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

If you liked the classics plot in Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, Robin Buss , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Antigone

By: Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Eu… read more

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"My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force."

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

"ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty spa…"

-Jean Anouilh, Antigone

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2. Thérèse Raquin

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.73

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of… read more

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"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir a jamais troublé leur vie."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir à jamais troublé leur vie."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."

-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

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

3. 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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"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

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4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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5. 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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"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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6. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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7. 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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8. Don Juan

By: Molière , Richard Wilbur

3.56

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Molière's classic tale of the Seducer of Seville, an uproariously funny story flawlessly translated… read more

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"[...] il n'est rien de si doux que de triompher de la résistance d'une belle personne."

-Molière, Don Juan

"[..] l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus."

-Molière, Don Juan

"Bah!, non andiamo a pensare a quel che può capitarci e pensiamo soltanto a quel che può darci piacere."

-Molière, Don Juan

9. Boule de Suif (21 contes)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Pendant l'hiver, 1870-71, durant la guerre franco-prussienne, la ville de Rouen (Normandie) est env… read more

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10. Manon Lescaut

By: Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Leonard Tancock , None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to … read more

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11. Incendies

By: Wajdi Mouawad

4.37

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Lorsque le notaire Lebel fait aux jumeaux Jeanne et Simon Marwan la lecture du testament de leur mè… read more

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"L'enfance est un couteau planté dans la gorge."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble, ça va mieux."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Ce n'est jamais bon signe lorsque la jeunesse s'enfuit."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Every balle que je mets dans le fusil, Is like a poème. And I shoot a poème to the people and it is the précision of my poème qui tue les gens"

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

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12. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

13. The Horla

By: Guy de Maupassant , Charlotte Mandell

3.58

Format: 304 pages,

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14. 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

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15. Une vie

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.86

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

Jeanne, ayant fini ses malles, s'approcha de la fenêtre, mais la pluie ne cessait pas. L'averse, t… read more

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"After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think."

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

"One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death."

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

"Then she added, no doubt in answer to her own thoughts: 'You see, life is never as good or as bad as one thinks.'  "

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

"As her figure coarsened, her soul became ever more romantic, and when her corpulence riveted her to her chair, her imagination continued to wander through tender adventures, of which she was the hero…"

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

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16. Juste la fin du monde

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce

3.20

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Le fils retourne dans sa famille pour l'informer de sa mort prochaine. Ce sont les retrouvailles av… read more

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17. Det går an

By: Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidkoping sergeant Albert falls in love with the glaz… read more

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18. Thérèse Desqueyroux

By: François Mauriac

1.00

Format: None pages,

Pour eviter le scandale et proteger les interets de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme T… read more

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19. 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

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20. 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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"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

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21. 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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"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

"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

16 Top fiction books like Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, Robin Buss

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Antigone

Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

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Thérèse Raquin

Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

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4.20

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Antigone

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3.78

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Tartuffe

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4.14

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Hernani

Victor Hugo , John J. Janc

4.57

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