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10 best books like Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas (Gustave Flaubert): Henry IV, Parts One and Two (No Fear Shakespeare), Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle, Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho, Selected Short Stories, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories, Selected Writings, The Flanders Road, Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition)

Henry IV, Parts One and Two (No Fear Shakespeare)
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Henry IV Part One and Two on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:
* The complete text of the original play
* A line-by-line translation that puts...
Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle
AuthorThomas Love Peacock
ISBN0140430458
Thomas Love Peacock is literature's perfect individualist.

He has points in common with Aristophanes, Plato, Rabelais, Voltaire, and even Aldous Huxley, but resembles none of them; we can talk of the satirical novel of ideas, but his satire is too cheery and good-natured, his novel too rambling,...
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho
AuthorMiguel de Unamuno
ISBN8437607361
‘For me alone was Don Quixote born, and myself for his sake; he knew how to act and I to write,’ Cervantes has written with his pen. And I say that for Cervantes to recount their lives, and for me to explain and elucidate them, were born Don Quijote and Sancho. Cervantes was born to narrate, and to write...
Selected Short Stories
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
The fifty stories that Balzac wrote during his working life display all the qualities of his novels, and many of them feature the charaters that throng theComedie Humaine. Nevertheless, while they do offer an interesting counterpoint to the great novels, the stories as themselves.For this volume...
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
AuthorEdmond de Goncourt
No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt

The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a work that in its richness of...
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories
AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN0192836617
Zola is famous for his novels, especially the excellent Rougon-Macquart series, so I was a little bit nervous approaching a book of his short stories. Would Zola continue to impress or would he falter in this format? In my experience novelists aren't always good short story writers and vice versa; they...
Selected Writings
AuthorGérard de Nerval
Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol, and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already recognizably modernist in its explorations of the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness,...
The Flanders Road
AuthorClaude Simon
ISBN0714539945
During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, which led to the fall of France, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three of his dragoons, involved with him in different capacities, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.

One...
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0393006093
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789–1835)—the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression,...
The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition)
AuthorJames Stephens
ISBN1406830275
Truly unique, it is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace. The Crock of Gold contains 6 books: Book 1 – The Coming of Pan, Book 2 – The Philosophers Journey, Book 3 – The Two Gods, Book 4 – The Philosophers Return, Book 5 – The Policemen,...
Love's Body
AuthorNorman O. Brown
ISBN0520071069
Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. Love's Body is a continuation of the explorations begun...
Return to the Dark Valley
AuthorSantiago Gamboa
ISBN1609454251
Gritty Central and South American lives from an underground Colombian literary voice.
Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolano, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels...
Thaïs
AuthorAnatole France
ISBN1587158558
In those days the hermits of the desert lived in huts on the banks of the Nile, where they lived abstemious lives, taking no food till after sunset, and eating nothing but bread with a little salt and hyssop.They lived in temperance and chastity, they wore a hair shirt and a hood, slept on the bare ground...
Zadig/L'Ingénu
AuthorVoltaire
ISBN0140441263
If we must have fables, for heaven’s sake let them at least be emblems of truth.
Here are two more tales of Voltaire, one written before and one after the famous Candide. All three center on a young man in love with a beautiful girl, whose love is thwarted as he is tossed about by fortune. Yet in content...
The Explorer
AuthorW. Somerset Maugham
ISBN1598186663
The sea was very calm. There was no ship in sight, and the seagulls were motionless upon its even greyness. The sky was dark with lowering clouds, but there was no wind. The line of the horizon was clear and delicate. The shingly beach, no less deserted, was thick with tangled seaweed, and the innumerable...
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