Genre :: France (68 books)

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  #25

  In Search of Lost Time

  by Marcel Proust

  (7 Reviews)

  455 Points

  "For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"

  

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  #42

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  335 Points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #44

  The Stranger

  by Albert Camus

  (13 Reviews)

  331 Points

  "Mother died today. (Stuart Gilbert translation)Maman died today. (Matthew Ward translation)Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas."

  

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  #48

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #71

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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  #76

  The Ambassadors

  by Henry James

  (4 Reviews)

  235 Points

  "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."

  

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  #80

  Birdsong

  by Sebastian Faulks

  (6 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "The boulevard du cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens."

  

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  #107

  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (15 Reviews)

  180 Points

  "On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

  

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  #120

  The Counterfeiters

  by Andre Gide

  (5 Reviews)

  162 Points

  "The time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage," said Bernard to himself.

  

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  #130

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  151 Points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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