6 best-selling novels books like Zadig et autres contes by Voltaire

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Zadig et autres contes

By: Voltaire

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

" Je vous offre la traduction d'un livre d'un ancien sage, qui, ayant le bonheur de n'avoir rien à …

"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Ci adoriamo, ma abbiamo paura di amarci; bruciamo ambedue di un fuoco che condanniamo."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Ci adoriamo, ma abbiamo paura di amarci; bruciamo ambedue di un fuoco che condanniamo."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

If you liked the novels plot in Zadig et autres contes by Voltaire , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

1. 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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2. Amok and Other Stories

By: Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

A doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions;… read more

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  • classics
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  • short stories
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  • novels
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3. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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4. Gargantua

By: Andrew Brown , François Rabelais , Paul Bailey

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a companion volume to Pantagruel, this new edition of Gargantuacontinues Rabelais' acclaimed fan… read more

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5. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • france
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6. 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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7. 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

8. Jacques the Fatalist

By: Denis Diderot

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and … read more

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  • french literature
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  • 18th century
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9. 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

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10. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

11. 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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12. 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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"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

13. Vipère au poing

By: Hervé Bazin

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Vipere au poing, c'est le combat impitoyable livre par Jean Rezeau dit Brasse-Bouillon, et ses frer… read more

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14. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andromacha Brytanik Berenika Ifigenia Fedra read more

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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

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

16. 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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"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

17. Les Femmes Savantes

By: Molière

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Les Femmes savantesest une piece de theatre en cinq actes et en alexandrins. Ce joyeux classique sa… read more

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18. Rhinocéros

By: Eugène Ionesco , None

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stereotyp… read more

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19. Pensées

By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer

3.95

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more

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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."

-Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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20. Zadig et autres contes

By: Voltaire

3.80

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

" Je vous offre la traduction d'un livre d'un ancien sage, qui, ayant le bonheur de n'avoir rien à … read more

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  • fiction
  • 18th century
  • novels
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Ci adoriamo, ma abbiamo paura di amarci; bruciamo ambedue di un fuoco che condanniamo."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Foi (de Zoroastro) que as nações herdaram este grande princípio: É preferível arriscar-se a salvar um culpado que condenar um inocente."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

"Le moment où l'on se retrouve, et celui où l'on se sépare, sont les deux plus grandes époques de la vie, comme dit le grand livre du Zend."

-Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

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21. 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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22. 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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23. Ruy Blas

By: Victor Hugo

3.54

Format: 271 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more

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24. L'École des Femmes

By: Molière

3.62

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

L’École des femmes est une comédie en cinq actes et en vers. La comédie de Molière L'École des … read more

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25. 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

26. Confessions

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Patrick Coleman , Angela Scholar

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

The Confessionsis Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography. Covering his first 53 years, up to 1765, i… read more

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27. Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

By: Arthur Rimbaud

3.26

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Si l'on devait citer le poète qui a exercé l'influence la plus profonde sur la poésie du début du X… read more

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"On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu'on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade."

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

"l'Idole où tu mis tant de virginité, Où tu divinisas notre argile, la Femme, Afin que l'Homme pût éclairer sa pauvre âme Et monter lentement, dans un immense amour, De la prison terrestre à la beauté…"

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

"Ma bohème Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ; Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ; J'allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j'étais ton féal ; Oh ! là ! là ! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvée…"

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

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28. Le Mariage de Figaro

By: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

3.53

Format: 258 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Forcé de parcourir la route où je suis entré sans le savoir, comme j'en sortirai sans le vouloir, j… read more

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  • 18th century
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29. Gargantua

By: François Rabelais

2.38

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Le récit de Rabelais au programme des 1 res générale et technologique, suivi des parcours littérair… read more

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  • classics
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30. Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki

By: Ignacy Krasicki

3.18

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Dla pierwszej polskiej powieści wykorzystał Krasicki relację pamiętnikarską, dzięki czemu dokonał j… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile

By: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

BARTHOLO - En ma place, Bazile, ne feriez-vous pas les derniers efforts pour la posséder? BAZILE … read more

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"Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d’être obligé d’en pleurer."

-Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile

"Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung. ( Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante. )"

-Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile

21 best-selling fiction books like Zadig et autres contes by Voltaire

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Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Amok and Other Stories

Stefan Zweig , Anthea Bell

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Tartuffe

Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Gargantua

Andrew Brown , François Rabelais , Paul Bailey

2.50

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The Complete English Poems

John Donne , A.J. Smith

4.15

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

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Theological-Political Treatise

Baruch Spinoza , Seymour Feldman , Samuel Shirley

4.08

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Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None

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