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Octave Mirbeau

Born

in Trévières, France

February 16, 1848

Died

February 16, 1917

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Humor, Politics

Influences

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Leon Tolstoy, Balzac ...more

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Octave Mirbeau was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.

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Average rating: 3.73 · 5,881 ratings · 597 reviews · 369 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Torture Garden 3.74 avg rating — 2,832 ratings — published 1899 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau, John Baxter (Introduction), Anna Højgaard Andersen (Translator), Hardy Andersen (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 1900	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoria de Georges el amargado by Octave Mirbeau, Lluís Maria Todó (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1920 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty-One Days of a Neurasthenic by Octave Mirbeau, Justin Vicari (Translator & Preface) 3.75 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1901 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Calvaire by Octave Mirbeau, Christine Donougher (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 92 ratings — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Sky by Octave Mirbeau, Ann Sterzinger (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Claire Nettleton (Preface) 4.05 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1892 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abbé Jules really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1888 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sebastien Roch 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1890 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Η απεργία των ψηφοφόρων by Octave Mirbeau, Damien Theillier (Addendum), Ανδρέας Στάικος (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1902 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of Balzac by Octave Mirbeau, Brian M. Stableford (Translator ) 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1989 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Octave Mirbeau (?)

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.”
― Octave Mirbeau

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“‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.”
― Octave Mirbeau

tags: great-war-on-terrorism, terrorism

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“Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.”
― Octave Mirbeau, Le Jardin des supplices

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July 2022 Old School Classics Read

The Bostonians by Henry James, 1886, 460pp

51 votes, 22.8%

The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola, 1883, 438pp

42 votes, 18.8%

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762, 168pp

40 votes, 17.9%

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, 1894, 140pp

27 votes, 12.1%

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, 1405, 281pp

26 votes, 11.6%

The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, 121, 363pp

21 votes, 9.4%

The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, 1899, 122pp

17 votes, 7.6%

224 total votes

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