6 Best classics books like The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Letters to a Young Poet, one of the greatest letter collections of all time, com…

"Time itself does not “console,"

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

"I hope that somewhere in the thicket of your sprawling pain you may come upon the small spring that has already cried all the tears before, and, indeed, for you in advance."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

"All of our true relationships, all of our enduring experiences touch upon and pass through everything, Sidie, through life and death. We must live in both, be intimately at home in both."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

"Continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

If you liked the classics plot in The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. First Love

By: Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use read more

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  • classics
"Jealous Othello, ready for murder, was suddenly transformed into a schoolboy."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;"

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

"Aprovéchate todo lo que puedas, pero no te entregues tú mismo: el sentido de la vida es no pertenecer a nadie más que a si mismo."

-Constance Garnett, First Love

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2. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • classics
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

By: Mary Oliver

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A rich collection of ten poems, two essays, and two dozen of Mary Oliver's classic works on flowers… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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6. The Broken Wings

By: Kahlil Gibran , None

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
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7. A Buddhist Grief Observed

By: Guy Newland

3.67

Format: 44 pages,

Amid the world-shattering pain of loss, what helps? "After the death of his beloved partner from ca… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • death

8. Poems of Fernando Pessoa

By: Fernando Pessoa , Edwin Honig , None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"At last, at last, at last, Pessoa again! More Pessoa! One of the very great poets of the twentieth… read more

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9. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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10. House of Light

By: Mary Oliver

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston GlobeLawrence L. Winship Book Award Th… read more

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11. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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12. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • classics
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

13. Slow River

By: Nicola Griffith

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still … read more

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14. Love Letter to the Earth

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Love Letter to the Earthis Thich Nhat Hanh's passionate appeal for ecological mindfulness and the s… read more

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15. Frankenstein in Baghdad

By: Ahmed Saadawi

3.58

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more

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"Death stalked the city like the plague."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

"Each of us has a measure of criminality."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

"None of us should think only of ourselves."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."

-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

Cover of The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke

16. The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Letters to a Young Poet, one of the greatest letter collections of all time, com… read more

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  • german literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • death
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
"Time itself does not “console,"

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

"I hope that somewhere in the thicket of your sprawling pain you may come upon the small spring that has already cried all the tears before, and, indeed, for you in advance."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

"All of our true relationships, all of our enduring experiences touch upon and pass through everything, Sidie, through life and death. We must live in both, be intimately at home in both."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

"Continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and w…"

-Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics)

Cover of You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett

17. You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

By: Rachel Corbett

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke―then a struggling poet in Germany―wen… read more

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  • poetry
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. The Iliac Crest

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.65

Format: 200 pages, ebook

On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they pro… read more

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"An intimate and familiar deception was taking its usual place within me with the feeble movements of an elderly woman."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

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19. Untold Night and Day

By: Bae Suah

3.49

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A seductive, disorienting novel that manipulates the fragile line between dreams and reality, by So… read more

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  • poetry
"In life there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"The door swung back so suddenly it severed them from their shadows, which were left behind like dark ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, every photograph is a unique proof of identify, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

"Whatever the intention or aim of the photographer, Wolfi thought, every photograph is a unique proof of identity, firmly declaring that human beings are ghosts."

-Bae Suah, Untold Night and Day

Cover of Even If This Love Disappears Tonight by Misaki Ichijo

20. Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

By: Misaki Ichijo

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll dat… read more

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"No wound vanishes completely, because wounds are also memories. But the pain won’t last forever."

-Misaki Ichijo, Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

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21. Murder on Hunter's Eve (The Lamplight Murder Mysteries, #3)

By: Morgan Stang

4.50

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

A werewolf terrorizes the city of Lamplight!It's the week of Hunter's Eve, a yearly celebration of … read more

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5 Top philosophy books like The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation (Modern Library Classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Kahlil Gibran , None

4.11

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A Buddhist Grief Observed

Guy Newland

3.67

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4.29

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Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

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Thomas Wharton

3.54

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Heather Fawcett

4.08

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