19 must-read fiction books like Death of the Gods (English and Russian Edition) by Dmitry Merezhkovsky

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Death of the Gods (English and Russian Edition)

By: Dmitry Merezhkovsky

4.28

Format: 463 pages, Paperback

A novel set in the time of the Roman Emperor Julianus (nephew of Constantine the Great, and called …

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1. Quo Vadis

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz , W.S. Kuniczak

4.01

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome--from the Forum to the Coliseum, fr… read more

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"If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?"

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

"-Моето щастие мина, и радостта ми отмина, но аз не съм зла."

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

"Светът е измамен, а животът е илюзия. Трябва да имаш достатъчно ум за да различиш приятните от лошите илюзии."

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

"Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure. And death itself, which for you is the end of life, is for us merely its beginning,—t…"

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

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2. 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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"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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3. The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

By: M.T. Clanchy , Héloïse d'Argenteuil , Pierre Abélard , Betty Radice

3.69

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

The story of the relationship between Abélard and Héloïse is one of the world’s most celebrated and… read more

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"It is sometimes dangerous to have too much merit."

-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

"Jealousy can easily believe the most terrible things."

-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

"How fatal sometimes are the consequences of curiosity!"

-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

"Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love."

-M.T. Clanchy, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

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4. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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5. 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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6. MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

By: Margaret Atwood

4.02

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Craker… read more

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"I already told you,"

-Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

"Life is warped. I'm just in sync."

-Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

"The only sure camouflage was unpredictability."

-Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

"Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it"

-Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

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7. Altıncı Koğuş

By: Anton Chekhov , None , Yulva Muhurcişi

4.26

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Çehov bir taşra kasabasındaki akıl hastanesinde geçen bu novellasında, eğitimli bir hasta olan İvan… read more

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Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

8. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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9. 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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10. Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more

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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."

-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

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11. The Other Side

By: Alfred Kubin , Mike Mitchell

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Other Sidetells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterio… read more

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Cover of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

12. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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13. Hadji Murad

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Ch… read more

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14. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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15. The Lower Depths

By: Maxim Gorky , None

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This compelling 1902 play, considered Gorky's masterpiece, centers on a group of wretched souls who… read more

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16. The Fiery Angel

By: Valery Bryusov

3.45

Format: None pages,

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17. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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18. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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19. Ruslan and Ludmila

By: Alexander Pushkin

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Description: Written in 1820, when Pushkin was very young, Ruslan and Ludmila was his first major w… read more

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20. Laurus

By: None , Lisa Hayden

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as… read more

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21. Spring Torrents

By: Ivan Turgenev , None

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a tour in Italy, twenty-three-year-old Dimitry Sanin breaks his journey in… read more

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22. 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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23. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

24. Murder on the Leviathan (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #3)

By: Boris Akunin , Andrew Bromfield

3.96

Format: 288 pages,

Tipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Boris Akunin's latest page-turner transports the reader back to… read more

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25. Bruges-La-Morte

By: Georges Rodenbach , Will Stone

3.95

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Hugues Viane is a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal lo… read more

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26. Home of the Gentry

By: Ivan Turgenev , Richard Freeborn

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremenni… read more

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27. Buddha's Little Finger

By: Victor Pelevin , Andrew Bromfield

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Russian novelist Victor Pelevin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most brilliant young … read more

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28. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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29. The Turkish Gambit (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #2)

By: Boris Akunin , Andrew Bromfield

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

"[An] elegantly spun yarn . . . Akunin's wonderful novels are always intricately webbed and plotted… read more

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30. Death of the Gods (English and Russian Edition)

By: Dmitry Merezhkovsky

4.28

Format: 463 pages, Paperback

A novel set in the time of the Roman Emperor Julianus (nephew of Constantine the Great, and called … read more

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31. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

13 must-read novels books like Death of the Gods (English and Russian Edition) by Dmitry Merezhkovsky

Transform Your Habits

Quo Vadis

Henryk Sienkiewicz , W.S. Kuniczak

4.01

Transform Your Habits

First Love

Constance Garnett , Ivan Turgenev

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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