The Dream
10 best books like The Dream (Émile Zola): The Temptation of St. Antony, Salammbô, The British Museum Is Falling Down, A Harlot High and Low, Le Grand Meaulnes, The Unknown Masterpiece, The Chouans, Julie, or the New Heloise, A Meaningful Life, November
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140444106 |
A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140443282 |
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,...
The British Museum Is Falling Down
| Author | David Lodge |
| ISBN | 0140124195 |
Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around...And that, precisely, is the dilemma that preoccupies Adam Appleby as he begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Adam is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 0140442324 |
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...
| Author | Alain-Fournier |
| ISBN | 0140182829 |
Dear Henri Alain-Fournier,
Some people claim you had great talent as a novelist. Many more would claim I don't. Is it fair that you died in World War I while I live, free to write this review and feeling like I'm having a bad morning because I didn't have all the usual ingredients for my breakfast...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 0940322749 |
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso,...
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 1406951242 |
Les Chouans (French pronunciation: [le ʃwɑ̃], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0874518253 |
An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral...
| Author | L.J. Davis |
| ISBN | 1590173007 |
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate, and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 1843911124 |
An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notions of desire and longing to most remarkable effect. Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a young man withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life. His increasing hopelessness...
