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 …
Want to Read $ 0.99"For avarice begins where poverty ends."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"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
"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
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1. Aurélien
By: Louis Aragon
4.30
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
Dans cette chronique parisienne de l'entre-deux guerres, Aragon décrit la toute nouvelle société su… read more
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"Aurélien, cette nuit, s'approuve. Tout lui devient logique, signe de son amour."-Louis Aragon, Aurélien
"La première fois qu'Aurélien vit Bérénice, il la trouva franchement laide. Elle lui déplut, enfin. Il n'aima pas comment elle était habillée."-Louis Aragon, Aurélien
"Il avait plu le matin de bonne heure, mais Dieu merci il faisait presque beau depuis neuf heures, c'est-à-dire qu'il faisait ignoble mais qu'on ne pataugeait pas."-Louis Aragon, Aurélien
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
3. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
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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5. Le Parti pris des choses / Douze petits écrits / Proêmes
By: Francis Ponge
4.17
Format: 200 pages,
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6. Britannicus
By: Jean Racine
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Une mere autoritaire et possessive, un fils sournois et pervers, un vertueux demi-frere par allianc… read more
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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. Salammbô
By: Gustave Flaubert , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the day… read more
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9. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)
By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more
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10. 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
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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"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)
12. La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (Les Rougon-Macquart, #5)
By: Émile Zola
2.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Serge Mouret est le pretre d'un village pauvre, quelque part sur les plateaux desoles et brules du … read more
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13. On the Eve
By: Ivan Turgenev
3.84
Format: 464 pages,
First published in 1859, On the Eve(of the Russian revolution) is another of Turgenev's lyrical ide… read more
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14. La Bête humaine
By: Émile Zola , Henri Mitterand
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Mass Market Paperback
<< L'essentiel de La Bete humaine, c'est l'instinct de mort dans le personnage principal, la felure… read more
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15. 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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16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. Le Fils naturel - Le Père de famille - Est-il bon ? Est-il méchant ?
By: Denis Diderot
2.67
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
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