9 must-read school books like Carta de Lord Chandos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Carta de Lord Chandos

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

3.85

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

»Die abstrakten Worte … zerfielen mir im Munde wie modrige Pilze«: In seinem berühmten fiktiven Bri…

If you liked the school plot in Carta de Lord Chandos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, John Willett, Ralph Manheim

1. The Threepenny Opera

By: Bertolt Brecht , Kurt Weill , John Willett , Ralph Manheim

3.89

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his … read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"1.Tanrı: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayağılık, pislik! Doğayı da katletmişler.Güzelim ağaçları tellerle idam etmişler.Dağların ötesinde duman bulutlarından göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsü…"

-Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

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2. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

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3. Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

By: Adelbert von Chamisso , William Howitt

3.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Adelbert von Chamissos 1814 erschienene phantastische Erzählung 'Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschi… read more

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"Was sein soll, muß geschehen, und was sein sollte, das geschah."

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

"Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?"

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

"I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery."

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

"In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten."

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

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4. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen

By: Heinrich Heine

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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5. Die Physiker

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Mobius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefahrliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft … read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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6. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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  • classics
  • school

8. Bahnwärter Thiel

By: Gerhart Hauptmann

2.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Gerhart Hauptmanns 1888 erschienene "novellistische Studie" 'Bahnwarter Thiel' ist das erste bedeut… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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9. The Judgement

By: Franz Kafka

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"The judgment" is considered the most autobiographical of Kafka's stories. First, there are Kafka's… read more

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  • german literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
  • fiction

10. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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11. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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12. Lieutenant Gustl

By: Arthur Schnitzler

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the centur… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
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13. Funes el Memorioso

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.19

Format: 144 pages,

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  • philosophy
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Cover of The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

14. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

15. Bartleby & Co.

By: Enrique Vila-Matas , Jonathan Dunne

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Bartleby Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in … read more

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16. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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17. La settimana bianca

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Maurizia Balmelli

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

<>ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrere <>. All'inizio, infatti, il piccolo Nicolas ha tutta l'a… read more

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18. The Black Spider

By: Susan Bernofsky , Jeremias Gotthelf

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

An NYRB Classics Original It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening … read more

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19. In the Penal Colony

By: Sadegh Hedayat , Franz Kafka , Hasan Ghaemian

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first … read more

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20. Three Tales

By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Roger Whitehouse

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness,… read more

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21. René

By: François-René de Chateaubriand

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

"Levez-vous vite, orages desires, qui devez emporter Rene dans les espaces d'une autre vie !" Tout … read more

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22. Das Erbe von Winterfell (Das Lied von Eis und Feuer, #2)

By: George R.R. Martin , Jörn Ingwersen

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Die grosste Fantasy-Saga unserer Zeit in vollstandig uberarbeiteter Neuausgabe! Eddard Stark, der L… read more

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23. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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24. Elective Affinities

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more

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25. Gilgi, eine von uns

By: Irmgard Keun

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secreta… read more

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26. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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27. Carta de Lord Chandos

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

3.85

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

»Die abstrakten Worte … zerfielen mir im Munde wie modrige Pilze«: In seinem berühmten fiktiven Bri… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • philosophy
  • fiction
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28. El caminante y su sombra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas edicion… read more

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  • philosophy
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29. The Shadow of the Coachman's Body

By: Peter Weiss

3.61

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Peter Weiss’s first prose work, The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, was unanimously praised as an or… read more

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Cover of Tristan e Iseo by Alicia Yllera

30. Tristan e Iseo

By: Alicia Yllera

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Paradigma de la historia de una pasión amorosa enfrentada a un destino trágico, Tristán e Iseo gozó… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Locarno Dilencisi by Heinrich von Kleist

31. Locarno Dilencisi

By: Heinrich von Kleist

3.30

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Goethe sonrası Alman romantik-gerçekçi geleneğinin en önemli yazarı sayılan Heinrich von Kleist 177… read more

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18 Top fiction books like Carta de Lord Chandos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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3.54

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Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

Adelbert von Chamisso , William Howitt

3.62

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4.17

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Miguel Delibes

4.12

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Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

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