Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

8 best books like Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (François-René de Chateaubriand): Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Fables, The Princesse de Clèves, Salammbô, A Harlot High and Low, Les Regrets / Les Antiquités de Rome, Alles umsonst

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
AuthorStefan Zweig
ISBN0802139094
Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim,...
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0691043442
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free...
AuthorJean de La Fontaine
ISBN2266127756
Une tortue, un corbeau, un lièvre, une fourmi, un lion, et même un pot au lait : autant de figures familières qui peuplent, parmi tant d'autres, notre imaginaire, resurgissent régulièrement, et que nous devons toutes au fabuleux talent de Monsieur de La Fontaine. Il est le prince des poètes,...
The Princesse de Clèves
AuthorMadame de La Fayette
ISBN0192837265
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Well, I have to say the moment I saw this book I thought that it would be about Anne of Cleves a.k.a. the luckiest wife of Henry VIII.

I never heard about the book The Princess of Clèves...
AuthorGustave Flaubert
ISBN0140443282
A little human sacrifice, a touch of cannibalism, some slaughter of both soldiers and civilians, one or two crucifixions, there you have it, the mercenaries revolt against Carthage in 240 B.C. Yes I am being facetious, a great amount in all these categories in fact occurred, people played rough then,...
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN0140442324
Why should anyone care about Esther, a prostitute from a young age, a harlot with powers over men? Why should anyone care about a spoiled feeble individual such as Lucien, the poet whose ambitions are to secure a noble title and live in luxury for the rest of his life? The same Lucien who, by the way, in Lost...
AuthorJoachim Du Bellay
ISBN2070321479
È ciò che fugge che resiste al tempo


Nouveau venu, qui cherches Rome en Rome
Et rien de Rome en Rome n’aperçois,
Ces vieux palais, ces vieux arcs que tu vois,
Et ces vieux murs, c’est ce que Rome on nomme.

Vois quel orgueil, quelle ruine: et comme
Celle...
Alles umsonst
AuthorWalter Kempowski
ISBN3813502643
Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the...
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