14 must-read novels books like Nana by Émile Zola

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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…

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

-Émile Zola, Nana

"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

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

-Émile Zola, Nana

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Cover of Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland

1. Rachel Ray

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

It is through reading novels, wrote Trollope in his Autobiography, 'that girls learn what is expect… read more

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"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."

-Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

2. 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

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3. Elsa

By: Louis Aragon

4.23

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Ce poème d'Aragon est un "roman achevé", au sens où l'on dit qu'une oeuvre est achevée ; c'est un r… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • fiction
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4. Au Bonheur des Dames d'Émile Zola (Essai et dossier)

By: Véronique Cnockaert

4.14

Format: 243 pages, None

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  • roman
  • france
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5. 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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"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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6. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

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7. 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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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

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9. The Charterhouse of Parma

By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig

3.79

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more

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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

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10. 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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11. 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

12. 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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13. 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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"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

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14. 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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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

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16. 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

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

17. 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

"I drink to the victory of the mind over the millions."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

18. A Harlot High and Low

By: Honoré de Balzac , Rayner Heppenstall

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the he… read more

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19. 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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"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

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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

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21. Le Diable

By: Léon Tolstoï

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Pocket Book

Irténiev, propriétaire terrien, est un homme sérieux, qui gère son domaine avec efficacité et rigue… read more

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