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Genre: Roman (14 books)

The best classic books from the Roman genre.

I, Claudius

I, Claudius

Robert Graves

4.17 (6)

I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot", or "That Claudius", or "Claudius the Stammerer", or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius", am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.

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Old Goriot

Old Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

3.75 (4)

Madame Vauquer (<i>nee</i> De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel.

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The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters

Andre Gide

4.2 (5)

"The time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage," said Bernard to himself.

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Germinal

Germinal

Émile Zola

4.0 (2)

Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d’une obscurité et d’une épaisseur d’encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout droit, à travers les champs de betteraves.[translation by Havelock Ellis, 1894] Over the open plain, beneath a starless sky as dark and thick as ink, a man walked alone along the highway from Marchiennes to Montsou, a straight paved road ten kilometers in length, intersecting the beetroot-fields.

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Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

3.67 (3)

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The Wanderer

The Wanderer

Alain-Fournier

5.0 (3)

He appeared at our house on a Sunday in November 189... (Davison translation)

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The Abyss

The Abyss

Marguerite Yourcenar

3.5 (2)

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The Man Without Qualities

The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

4.0 (2)

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Froth on the Daydream

Froth on the Daydream

Boris Vian

4.5 (2)

Dans la vie, l'essentiel est de porter sur tout des jugements a priori.Colin finished dressing.

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