Genre :: France (68 books)

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  #131

  Tender is the Night

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (8 Reviews)

  147 Points

  "The hotel and its bright, tan prayer rug of a beach were one.On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud,..."

  

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  #132

  Journey to the End of the Night

  by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  (4 Reviews)

  145 Points

  

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  #140

  Being and Nothingness

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  (1 Review)

  138 Points

  "Modern thought has realized considerable progress by reducing the existent to the series of appearances which manifest it."

  

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  #152

  Life

  by Georges Perec

  (3 Reviews)

  130 Points

  " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

  

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  #176

  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  113 Points

  "Then there was the bad weather."

  

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  #184

  Nausea

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  (5 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "These notebooks were found among the papers of Antoine Roquentin. ("Editors' Note")The best thing would be to write down events from day to day."

  

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  #186

  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  (24 Reviews)

  106 Points

  "Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called "True Stories"."

  

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  #206

  Man's Fate

  by Andre Malraux

  (1 Review)

  96 Points

  "Should he try to raise the mosquito-netting?"

  

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  #215

  The Plague

  by Albert Camus

  (7 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran.Les curieux événements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produits en 194., à Oran.Le matin du 16 avril, le docteur..."

  

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  #217

  Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  (5 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "Well, Sophie dear, as you see, I'm keeping my word and not spending all my time on bonnets and bows, I'll always have some to spare for you!"

  

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