13 must-read classics books like Narziß und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

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Narziß und Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse

4.22

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

One of Hermann Hesse’s greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of th…

"What would love be without secrecy? What would love be without risk?"

-Hermann Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund

"I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love"

-Hermann Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund

"He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country."

-Hermann Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund

"It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness."

-Hermann Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund

If you liked the classics plot in Narziß und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

3. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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4. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

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"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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5. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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6. Jugend ohne Gott

By: Ödön von Horváth

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Das vielleicht wichtigste Werk Horvaths. Eine Erzahlung uber Respekt und Toleranz. Jugend ohne Gott… read more

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7. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

By: Patrick Süskind , John E. Woods

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a ter… read more

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9. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

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10. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

11. 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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12. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"¿Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo es…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

13. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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14. Homo Faber

By: Max Frisch

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. Dubbed … read more

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15. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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16. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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17. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

18. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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19. Hermann Hesse: Demian. Testo, contesto, extratesto

By: Rossana Andreassi Ruggieri

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Il percorso evolutivo del pensiero politico di Hermann Hesse ricostruito attraverso l'analisi delle… read more

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20. Nem sinal de asas

By: Marcela Dantés

4.15

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

ANJA SANTIAGO ESTÁ MORTA. Da porta de seu apartamento, por entre as faixas de uma escandalosa fita … read more

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21. CUPIM

By: Layla Martínez

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sucesso de vendas na Espanha e fenômeno literário, Cupim é um romance de terror feminista, duro, po… read more

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14 Top fiction books like Narziß und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

Transform Your Habits

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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White Nights

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