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Ultimate Best Books

List: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

The Journal of Jules Renard

The Journal of Jules Renard

Jules Renard

France Memoir
5.0 (1)

#615
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269
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Écrits

Écrits

Jacques Lacan

France Philosophy Psychology
3.0 (1)

#596
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306
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The Theater and Its Double

The Theater and Its Double

Antonin Artaud

France Philosophy Plays
3.5 (2)

#566
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390
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Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

American New York
3.5 (2)

Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes, orangerinds, spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls, the green waves spume under the round bow as the ferry, skidding on the tide, crashes, gulps the broken water, slides, settles slowly into the slip.

#524
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528
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Ficciones

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges

Fantasy Short Stories Magical Realism
4.0 (1)

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

#363
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1,459
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Moravagine

Moravagine

Blaise Cendrars

France Philosophy
3.0 (1)

In 1900 I completed my medical studies.

#595
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309
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The General of the Dead Army

The General of the Dead Army

Ismail Kadare

Historical Fiction Albania
5.0 (1)

#609
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282
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Romancero Gitano

Romancero Gitano

Federico García Lorca

Poetry Spain Indonesia
3.0 (1)

#578
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349
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Maigret and the Enigmatic Letter

Georges Simenon

Mystery France Crime
4.0 (1)

#558
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424
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Our Lady of the Flowers

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet

France Queer Gay
2.67 (3)

#551
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449
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