Niels Lyhne
By: Jens Peter Jacobsen
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Ni…
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1. Les Fruits d'Or
By: Nathalie Sarraute
3.43
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Cette œuvre de Nathalie Sarraute ne comporte ni personnage ni intrigue. Son héros est un roman, Les… read more
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"...je le sens très bien,mais je ne sais pas l'exprimer...je n'ai à ma disposition que de pauvres mots complètement usés à force d'avoir servi à tous et à tout..."-Nathalie Sarraute, Les Fruits d'Or
2. Doctor Glas
By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more
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"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas
3. Pengar
By: Victoria Benedictsson
3.46
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Selma Berg, en frejdig sextonåring med konstnärsdrömmar, gifts bort med en betydligt äldre man. Det… read more
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"Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan."-Victoria Benedictsson, Pengar
4. The Seducer's Diary
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Seducer's Diary records Johannes's discovery of a girl with the Shakespearean name Cordelia, wh… read more
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5. Lykke-Per
By: Henrik Pontoppidan
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Per Sidenius vokser op pa en ostjysk praestegard under en streng og pietistisk fader. Faderens krav… read more
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6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Niels Lyhne
By: Jens Peter Jacobsen
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Ni… read more
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8. Gösta Berling's Saga
By: Selma Lagerlöf , Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau , Lillie Tudeer
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlof assured her place in Swedish le… read more
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9. Hedda Gabler
By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more
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10. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more
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11. The Birds
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Michael Barnes , None
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
With spare simplicity, this story tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by hi… read more
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12. Il nostro bisogno di consolazione
By: Stig Dagerman , Fulvio Ferrari
4.24
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
L’inalienabile aspirazione umana alla felicità, alla libertà, al riscatto, al diritto di esistere s… read more
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"Är det att leva, att man är så ohyggligt ensam att man inte ens förmår att smitta ner de ’friska’ med sin ’sjukdom’?"-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione
"Och de dödsdömda kan inte protestera, de kan bara dö. Det är domarna som måste bli annorlunda, mindre domare, mer människor, mindre rättvisa, mer mänskliga."-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione
"Ändå jämrade sig minnet och sade: Riv inte, det är mina hus. Ni får inte slakta Klara! Varför inte, frågade då förnuftet, och minnet svarade: Därför att det är i denna del av världen som du har upple…"-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione
"Men ingenting av detta får, tycker jag, hindra Davis’ anhängare från att fortsätta, väl medvetna om att detta bara är början. Om det blir mer än en början, det kan vi inte veta och det får inte göra …"-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione
13. A Dream Play
By: August Strindberg , Caryl Churchill
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In Strindberg's A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change i… read more
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14. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more
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15. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
16. 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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"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
17. Mysteries
By: Knut Hamsun
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling … read more
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18. Det går an
By: Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidkoping sergeant Albert falls in love with the glaz… read more
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19. Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
By: Knut Hamsun , Sverre Lyngstad
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost… read more
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20. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
21. Sensitiva Amorosa
By: Ola Hansson
3.07
Format: 43 pages, Paperback
Novela motivo de escándalo en Suecia durante años, el malsano néctar de la planta Sensitiva amorosa… read more
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