16 Best fiction books like Feasts of Fear and Agony by Paul van Ostaijen

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Feasts of Fear and Agony

By: Paul van Ostaijen

3.87

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928) was one of the leading figures of the modernist vanguard in Holland a…

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1. Odour of Chrysanthemums

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawren… read more

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  • fiction
"She looked at his face, and she turned her own face to the wall. For his look was other than hers, his way was not her way. She had denied him what he was—she saw it now. She had refused him as himse…"

-D.H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums

"There had been nothing between them, and yet they had come together, exchanging their nakedness repeatedly.... She had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought i…"

-D.H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums

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2. Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

3.52

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more

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  • fiction
"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over..."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"

-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

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3. The Prophet's Hair

By: Salman Rushdie

3.60

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasur… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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  • fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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5. The Driver's Seat

By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark

3.61

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more

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  • fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."

-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat

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6. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Assault

By: Harry Mulisch , Claire Nicolas White , None , None

4.01

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborat… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Verzen

By: Kees 't Hart , Herman Gorter

3.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

De editie van 1890. "De allerindividueelste expressie van de allerindividueelste emotie", zo bestem… read more

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  • poetry
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10. Het recht van den sterkste

By: Cyriel Buysse

4.08

Format: 288 pages,

This book was published before the ISBN numbering standard was introduced In een Vlaams boerendorpj… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Wife of Bath

By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Peter G. Beidler

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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12. Interpreter of Maladies

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.17

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more

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  • fiction
"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

13. Jan, Jannetje en hun jonste kind

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

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14. Een zachte vernieling

By: Hugo Claus

4.27

Format: 412 pages,

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15. Songs of Innocence and of Experience

By: William Blake

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "

-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

16. Noodlot

By: Louis Couperus

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Noodlot is het tragische verhaal van de rijke en knappe Frank Westhove, die zijn verloving met de a… read more

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17. Bint

By: F. Bordewijk

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

De Bree is een leraar die een weggepeste collega van klas 4 d, bijgenaamd de Hel, mag vervangen. Hi… read more

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18. To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

To Build a Fire is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the… read more

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19. Barn Burning

By: William Faulkner

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

"Barn Burning" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Har… read more

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20. Het leven en de dood in de ast

By: Stijn Streuvels

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Het leven en de dood in de ast, een van de klassieke hoogtepunten uit de Vlaamse literatuur, bes… read more

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21. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

22. Het dwaallicht

By: Willem Elsschot

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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23. Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

By: Multatuli , Eduard Douwes Dekker , None , None

4.06

Format: 255 pages,

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treat… read more

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24. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

By: Stephen Fry

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and come… read more

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"Green fingers are better than gold."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Goodness me. You don’t ask for the moon, do you?"

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

"For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite."

-Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

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25. De ondergang van de familie Boslowits

By: Gerard Reve

3.59

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

Novelle over de ondergang van een joods gezin in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. read more

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  • fiction
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26. De Sprong der Paarden en de Zoete Zee

By: Harry Mulisch

3.45

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

De sprong der paarden en de zoete zee. Het verhaal verscheen oorspronkelijk als losse uitgave in 1… read more

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27. Lessons in Love and Other Crimes

By: Elizabeth Chakrabarty

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘One of the most gripping and powerful books I’ve ever read; I feel so represented as a queer, brow… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Het vaderhuis

By: Karel van de Woestijne

3.10

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Victor E. van Vriesland: 'Ik herinner me nog levendig, wat Van de Woestijne's boeken voor mijn gene… read more

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  • poetry
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29. Apocrief - de analfabetische naam

By: Lucebert

3.75

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Paperback. 15,00 / 20,00 cm. In Turkish. 96 p. Translated by Mustafa Özen Edited by Donat Bayer 20.… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Feasts of Fear and Agony

By: Paul van Ostaijen

3.87

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Paul Van Ostaijen (1896-1928) was one of the leading figures of the modernist vanguard in Holland a… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Verzamelde Gedichten

By: J.C. Bloem

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Verzameld werk van de Nederlandse dichter (1887-1966). read more

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  • poetry

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3.44

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