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What books are currently the most popular and which are the all time classics? Here we present you with a mixture of those two criteria. We update this list once a month.
Victor Hugo
Le roi s'amuse, best translated as ‘The King Amuses Himself’, is a play in five acts. It is set in Paris in the 1520s and the plot was used for Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. The main person of the play is Triboulet, a witty court jester, through whose words Hugo frequently …
M. Ward A. Camus
The Outsider or The Stranger is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as exemplars of Camus's philosophy of the absurd and existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the latter label. The titular character is Meursault, an …
René Marqués
La Carreta is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. The story follows a family of "jíbaros" or rural peasants that in an effort to find better opportunities end up moving to the United States. The story is divided in three acts, each focusing on a specific …
Leopoldo Lugones
La Guerra Gaucha is the first book, outside of his published poems of the Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones which he wrote in 1905. It is a book of stories about the gaucho guerrilla war they fought, commanded by Martín Miguel de Güemes, against the Spanish royalist during the …
Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the …
Alberto Fuguet
Mala onda is a bildungsroman novel and social commentary by Alberto Fuguet. It is also Fuguet's debut novel, first published in 1991. Mala onda is set in Chile during a ten-day period in late 1980, around the time of the Chilean constitutional referendum. The protagonist is …
Edmond Privat
The Life of Zamenhof is biography of L. L. Zamenhof, the founder of Esperanto, written in Esperanto by Edmond Privat. The first edition was in 1920 with 208 pages, and the second edition was in 1923 with 109 pages. Titles of the chapters in the English translation by Ralph …
Marguerite Yourcenar; Translated From The French By Grace Fr …
Memoirs of Hadrian is a novel by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. First published in France in French in 1951 as Mémoires d'Hadrien, the book was an immediate success, meeting with enormous critical acclaim. Although the …
Baudelaire/R. Scholten
This volume includes a new translation of Les fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire 1921 1967 often considered to be France s foremost poet and the first modern one Flowers of Evil was Baudelaire s major work he worked on it all his adult life until aphasia robbed him of the use …