8 best-selling roman books like Une vie by Guy de Maupassant

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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…

"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

"Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading caresses, all the mysterious connexions that cannot be broken off, at which she guessed."

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

If you liked the roman plot in Une vie by Guy de Maupassant , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of La promesse de l'aube by Romain Gary

1. La promesse de l'aube

By: Romain Gary

4.24

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more

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"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

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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

Cover of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher Prendergast

4. 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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  • romance
  • roman
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  • 19th century
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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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5. 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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Cover of Pot Luck (Les Rougon-Macquart, #10) by Émile Zola, Brian Nelson

6. Pot Luck (Les Rougon-Macquart, #10)

By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pot Luck, Zola's most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in… read more

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Cover of L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7) by Émile Zola, Robin Buss

7. 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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8. Le Colonel Chabert

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.59

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more

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"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."

-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert

9. 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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10. 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

Cover of Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière

11. 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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12. 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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Cover of Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall, Robert Baldick

13. 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

Cover of Une vie by Guy de Maupassant

14. 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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  • roman
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  • 19th century
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  • novels
"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

"Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading caresses, all the mysterious connexions that cannot be broken off, at which she gues…"

-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie

Cover of Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Douglas Parmée

15. 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

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. Nana

By: Émile Zola

3.84

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat k… read more

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"The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"Kalau kau sendiri tidak senang melakukan sesuatu, itu bukan alasan untuk mencegah orang lain menyukainya."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."

-Émile Zola, Nana

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. La Maison Du Chat-Qui-Pelote

By: Honoré de Balzac

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ce recit ecrit en 1829 sera place, plus tard, par Balzac en ouverture de la "Comedie Humaine". On y… read more

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20. 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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"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

Cover of Vers la beauté by David Foenkinos

21. Vers la beauté

By: David Foenkinos

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Antoine Duris est professeur aux Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Du jour au lendemain, il décide de tout quitte… read more

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16 Best fiction books like Une vie by Guy de Maupassant

Transform Your Habits

La promesse de l'aube

Romain Gary

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Thérèse Raquin

Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

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13 best-selling fiction books like Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac

Transform Your Habits

The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Bérénice

Jean Racine

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Pierre et Jean

Guy de Maupassant

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Britannicus

Jean Racine

3.61

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