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Favourite literature in translation
Love in the Time of CholeraLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My favourite Garcia Marquez. A beautiful novel about love in old age.
Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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A tragic masterpiece.
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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Another masterpiece about adultery.
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Very dark and needs a bit of perseverance, but well worth it in the end.
The Idiot (Penguin Classics)The Idiot (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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You will feel great sympathy for the hero, someone who feels like an outsider just because he is epileptic.
Thérèse Raquin (Oxford World's Classics)Thérèse Raquin (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
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Another adultery novel. Zola creates a suffocating atmosphere of suspense.
La Bete HumaineLa Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
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A very powerful murder story. It gave me nightmares!