15 Top classics books like La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée

Cover of La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée

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, …

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Cover of Antigone by Jean Anouilh, Lewis Galantibre

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
  • school
  • read for school
  • 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

Cover of Vendredi ou la vie sauvage by Michel Tournier

2. Vendredi ou la vie sauvage

By: Michel Tournier

3.34

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Un jour de septembre 1759, Robinson, seul survivant du naufrage de La Virginie, échoue sur l'île de… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière, Dietmar Fricke

3. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

By: Molière , Dietmar Fricke

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose. Le Bourgeois gentilhomm… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

4. 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
  • school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Arria Marcella by Théophile Gautier

5. Arria Marcella

By: Théophile Gautier

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of La Morte Amoureuse by Théophile Gautier

6. La Morte Amoureuse

By: Théophile Gautier

3.76

Format: None pages,

He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the … read more

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  • short stories
  • france
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Cannibale by Didier Daeninckx

7. Cannibale

By: Didier Daeninckx

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Paris 1931, l'Exposition coloniale. Quelques jours avant l'inauguration officielle, empoisonnes ou … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée

8. 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

Similar categories in Prosper Mérimée's La Vénus d'Ille book and Prosper Mérimée's La Vénus d'Ille

  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • read for school
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. Le Cid

By: Pierre Corneille

3.59

Format: 188 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dans une Espagne médiévale, héroïque, éclatante, deux jeunes gens se déchirent et s'adorent. Pour l… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Va, je ne te hais point."

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Dans le bonheur d'autrui je cherche mon bonheur"

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Czując cudownie w sobie rozdwojoną duszę Raz nim gardzę, drugi raz wzdychać za nim muszę."

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

"Je suis jeune, il est vrai mais aux âmes bien nées La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années"

-Pierre Corneille, Le Cid

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10. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • classics
  • school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Le Médecin Malgré Lui by Molière, None

11. Le Médecin Malgré Lui

By: Molière , None

3.72

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Le Médecin malgré lui est une comédie-farce en trois actes en prose. Sganarelle, bûcheron alcooliq… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Soit qu'on fasse bien ou soit qu'on fasse mal, on est toujours payé de même sorte."

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

"I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same."

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

"C'est une chose admirable, que tous les grands hommes ont toujours du caprice, quelque petit grain de folie mêlé à leur science."

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

"A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are nev…"

-Molière, Le Médecin Malgré Lui

Cover of Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière

12. Les Fourberies de Scapin

By: Molière

3.62

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Les Fourberies de Scapin est une comédie en trois actes en prose. En l'absence de son père, Octa… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction

13. The Horla

By: Guy de Maupassant , Charlotte Mandell

3.58

Format: 304 pages,

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Cover of The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times by Guy de Maupassant, Sandra Smith

14. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • read for school
  • 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

15. Les fausses confidences

By: Pierre de Marivaux

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Un valet d'intrigue, Dubois, veut faire la fortune de son ancien maitre ruine, Dorante, en le maria… read more

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Cover of Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, Douglas Parmée

16. 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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  • school
  • 19th century
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"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

17. La mare au diable

By: George Sand

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Un jeune veuf, Germain, vit avec ses beaux parents et ses trois enfants. Son beau-pere le pousse a … read more

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18. 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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19. The Necklace

By: Guy de Maupassant , Gary Kelley

3.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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Cover of The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors) by Guy de Maupassant

20. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

Cover of A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch Vol. 1 by Hiro Kashiwaba

21. A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch Vol. 1

By: Hiro Kashiwaba

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A sweet tale starring a gigantic cat who's summoned to a fantasy world by a lonely, elderly witch. … read more

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  • fantasy

15 Top fiction books like La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée

Transform Your Habits

Antigone

Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Vendredi ou la vie sauvage

Michel Tournier

3.34

Transform Your Habits

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Molière , Dietmar Fricke

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

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The Dragon King's Imperial Wrath: Falling in Love with the Bookish Princess of the Rat Clan Vol. 3

Aki Shikimi

3.72

Transform Your Habits

とんがり帽子のアトリエ 12 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 12]

Kamome Shirahama

4.52

Transform Your Habits

A Kingdom of Quartz 1

Bomhat

4.16

Transform Your Habits

A Cat from Our World and the Forgotten Witch Vol. 1

Hiro Kashiwaba

4.19

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