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Ultimate Best Books

List: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

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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The Second Sex

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

4.75 (4)

Woman?

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Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

4.27 (11)

Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir ESTRAGON: (giving up again) Nothing to be done.

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Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.0 (1)

Modern thought has realized considerable progress by reducing the existent to the series of appearances which manifest it.

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The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

4.08 (12)

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5.0 (1)

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?

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Paroles

Paroles

Jacques Prévert

5.0 (1)

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Alcools

Alcools

Guillaume Apollinaire

3.0 (1)

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The Blue Lotus

The Blue Lotus

Hergé

3.25 (4)

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Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

4.14 (36)

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth.

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