16 must-read fiction books like The Woman without a Shadow by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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The Woman without a Shadow

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

3.29

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Although Hugo von Hofmannsthal thought that "Die Frau ohne Schatten" was the greatest work on which…

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1. The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing nov… read more

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  • german literature
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"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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2. Dos mujeres en Praga

By: Juan José Millás

3.40

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Luz Acaso quiere que alguien escriba su biografía. Tiene cuarenta años y sufre una depresión que vi… read more

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Cover of Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte by Adelbert von Chamisso, William Howitt

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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  • german literature
"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. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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5. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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6. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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7. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • german literature
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8. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

By: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm , Joseph Campbell , James Stern , Padraic Colum , Josef Scharl , Margaret Raine Hunt

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been pa… read more

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  • fairy tales
  • fiction
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9. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction

10. Sylvie

By: Gérard de Nerval

4.06

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story is about a hero's love for three women, all of whom he loses; a hymn to unattainable, unr… read more

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11. Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

By: Stefan Zweig , Ahmet Cemal

4.11

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

Stefan Zweig Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu (Brief einer Unbekannten) adlı uzun öyküsünü 1920'li yı… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • german literature
"იმდენი ვიოცნებე,რომ, თუ შეიძლება ასე ითქვას ოცნება გადავცვითე..."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"... bir tel gibi gergindim ve varlığının ona her dokunuşuyla tınlıyordum."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"...el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

"Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu."

-Stefan Zweig, Bilinmeyen Bir Kadının Mektubu

12. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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13. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

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14. Woyzeck

By: Georg Büchner

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more

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15. Emilia Galotti: Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen

By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgefuhrten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ei… read more

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16. Doctor Faustus

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed … read more

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17. The Woman in the Dunes

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

3.89

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more

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  • fiction
"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

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18. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

19. Krabat

By: Otfried Preußler

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Broschiert

Krabat - das ist ein 14jahriger Waisenjunge, im Grossraum Lausitz/Dresden, im 17.Jahrhundert, der e… read more

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20. 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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21. Silk

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more

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22. Der Schimmelreiter

By: Theodor Storm

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Der Schimmelreiter ist viel mehr als ein klassisches Stuck deutscher Literatur - auf knappsten Raum… read more

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23. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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  • fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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24. Das Feld

By: Robert Seethaler

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Wenn die Toten auf ihr Leben zurückblicken könnten, wovon würden sie erzählen? Wäre es eine Geschic… read more

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"Ik heb het over echte waanzin. Waanzin die een stropdas draagt en gepoetste schoenen. De waanzin die 's avonds naar de badkamerspiegel knikt en niet meer bijkomt van het lachen, omdat hij weet dat hi…"

-Robert Seethaler, Das Feld

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25. 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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26. The Woman without a Shadow

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

3.29

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Although Hugo von Hofmannsthal thought that "Die Frau ohne Schatten" was the greatest work on which… read more

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  • fairy tales
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27. 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 Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht by E.T.A. Hoffmann

28. Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

3.47

Format: 93 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • german literature
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29. Ch.

By: Tomas Vaiseta

3.70

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

„Užtat katinų akys – galbūt žiauriausia ir maloniausia, ką galima patirti iki mirties: jų išgaubtam… read more

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3.62

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3.89

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3.93

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4.17

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4.12

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