15 Best france books like The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

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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…

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1. 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
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  • france
  • french literature
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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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2. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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3. Pierre et Jean

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Pierre, medecin, ne comprend pas pourquoi un ami de sa famille a legue sa fortune a Jean, son frere… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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4. Du bon usage des étoiles

By: Dominique Fortier

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

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  • france
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5. La double inconstance

By: Pierre de Marivaux , Roland Sauvignet

3.09

Format: None pages,

Dans un royaume imaginaire, deux villageois, Arlequin et Silvia, s'aiment d'un amour si profond que… read more

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  • classics
  • france
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6. Nadja

By: André Breton , Richard Howard

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more

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  • art
  • classics
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  • france
  • french literature
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"I am the soul in limbo."

-André Breton, Nadja

"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."

-André Breton, Nadja

"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."

-André Breton, Nadja

"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."

-André Breton, Nadja

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7. La Maison Tellier

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

9 contes: La maison Tellier -- Les tombales -- Sur l'eau -- Histoire d'une fille de ferme -- En fam… read more

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  • classics
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  • short stories
  • france
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8. 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

Similar categories in Arthur C. Danto's The Unknown Masterpiece book and Arthur C. Danto's The Unknown Masterpiece

  • art
  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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9. The Vice Consul

By: Marguerite Duras , Eileen Ellenbogen

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

The Vice-Consul is a bleak, enigmatic novel. Set in the steamy monsoon heat of Calcutta, it brings … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
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  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14) by Émile Zola, Roger Pearson

10. The Masterpiece (Les Rougon-Macquart, #14)

By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The Masterpieceis the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who ha… read more

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  • art
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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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11. 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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  • literature
  • art
  • french literature
"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)

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12. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • classics
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  • 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

13. 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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14. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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15. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

By: Ágota Kristóf

4.11

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

16. Adolphe

By: Benjamin Constant , Leonard Tancock

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world aro… read more

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17. 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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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of El fetichismo de la mercancía (y su secreto) by Karl Marx

18. El fetichismo de la mercancía (y su secreto)

By: Karl Marx

4.00

Format: 94 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«[…] La crisis ya no es, ni mucho menos, sinónimo de emancipación. Saber lo que está en juego se co… read more

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19. La Dispute

By: Pierre de Marivaux

3.29

Format: 144 pages, Pocket Book

Afin de connaître qui, de l'homme ou de la femme, fut à l'origine de l'infidélité, le prince d'un r… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • french literature
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20. The Intruder

By: Maurice Maeterlinck

3.69

Format: None pages, ebook

Intruder (French: L'Intruse) is a play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. It is the second … read more

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  • classics
  • french literature
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21. Salons

By: Denis Diderot

3.38

Format: 608 pages, Mass Market Paperback

De 1759 à 1781, Diderot le philosophe, l'homme de lettres, a joué au critique d'art en donnant neuf… read more

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12 best-selling fiction books like The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Bérénice

Jean Racine

4.12

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Pierre et Jean

Guy de Maupassant

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Du bon usage des étoiles

Dominique Fortier

4.02

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Dul

Jean-Louis Fournier , Can Belge

3.51

Transform Your Habits

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Jean-Louis Fournier , Zafer Demez

3.94

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L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

Ágota Kristóf

4.11

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The Young Man

Annie Ernaux

3.61

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