5 Top short stories books like Arria Marcella by Théophile Gautier

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Arria Marcella

By: Théophile Gautier

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Latin American Literature and Culture) (Volume 6)

By: Jean de Léry , Janet Whatley

3.25

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

When the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in hi… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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3. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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4. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical 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

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5. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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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6. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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8. Baryłeczka i inne opowiadania

By: Guy de Maupassant

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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9. The Last Day of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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10. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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11. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"[...] 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

Cover of Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, حسین کاظمی‌یزدی, Suzanne Rappaport

12. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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13. Arria Marcella

By: Théophile Gautier

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • short stories
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  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
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14. La Tresse

By: Laetitia Colombani

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Smita, Julia, Sarah. Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Trois chemins que rien ne destine … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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15. La Vénus d'Ille

By: Prosper Mérimée

3.44

Format: 127 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Un féru d'archéologie est invité à un mariage dans la petite ville d'Ille jusque-là sans histoire, … read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

16. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • classics
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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17. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)

By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

18. The Horla

By: Guy de Maupassant , Charlotte Mandell

3.58

Format: 304 pages,

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19. The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times

By: Guy de Maupassant , Sandra Smith

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one o… read more

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  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times

"I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times

"She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times

"What do you want?" he then asked her. And with clenched teeth, and trembling with anger, she replied: "I want--I want you to marry me, as you promised." But he only laughed and replied: "Oh! if a man…"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times

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20. 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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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction

21. Mateo Falcone

By: Prosper Mérimée

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

A Short Story from France On leaving Porto-Vecchio from the northwest and directing his steps towar… read more

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22. Lost Illusions

By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury

4.16

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"For avarice begins where poverty ends."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

23. Claude Gueux

By: Victor Hugo

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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24. On ne badine pas avec l'amour

By: Alfred de Musset , None

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Camille et Perdican partagent sans doute la meme religion de l'amour ideal, mais melee de vehemence… read more

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25. Les Caprices de Marianne

By: Alfred de Musset

3.81

Format: None pages,

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26. L'île des esclaves

By: Pierre de Marivaux , None

3.17

Format: 90 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Echoués à la suite d’un naufrage sur une île gouvernée par des esclaves fugitifs, une coquette et u… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac, Herbert J. Hunt

27. The Wild Ass's Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac , Herbert J. Hunt

3.71

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

The Wild Ass's Skin is Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaël d… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"He looked like some plant bleached by darkness."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

"Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

"Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

"La verdadera pasión se expresa con gritos, con suspiros fastidiosos para el hombre frío."

-Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin

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28. Vivre vite

By: Brigitte Giraud

3.58

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"J'ai été aimantée par cette double mission impossible. Acheter la maison et retrouver les armes ca… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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29. Le Sang de la cité (Capitale du Sud, #1)

By: Guillaume Chamanadjian

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Enfermée derrière deux murailles immenses, la Cité est une mégalopole surpeuplée, constituée de mul… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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30. Trois lucioles (Capitale du Sud, #2)

By: Guillaume Chamanadjian

4.47

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Nox, l’ancien commis d’épicerie, est désormais seul maître à bord de l’échoppe Saint-Vivant. Il a p… read more

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  • france
  • fiction

22 Top fiction books like Arria Marcella by Théophile Gautier

Transform Your Habits

Antigone

Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

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10 Top fiction books like Le Sang de la cité (Capitale du Sud, #1) by Guillaume Chamanadjian

Transform Your Habits

Gagner la guerre

Jean-Philippe Jaworski

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Le Sang de la cité (Capitale du Sud, #1)

Guillaume Chamanadjian

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Citadins de demain (Capitale du Nord, #1)

Claire Duvivier

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Du thé pour les fantômes

Chris Vuklisevic

3.88

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