7 Best classics books like Lovers & Murderers by Vladimír Páral

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Lovers & Murderers

By: Vladimír Páral

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy on the human condition, this book presents Vladimír Páral’s darkly comic vision of l…

If you liked the classics plot in Lovers & Murderers by Vladimír Páral , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
"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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2. Bílá nemoc

By: Karel Čapek , Michael Henry Heim

4.23

Format: 378 pages, Unknown Binding

Popudem k napsání tohoto dramatu z r. 1937 byl podle autorových slov "konflikt ideálů demokracie s … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
"Маршал. Так, я розбудив у ньому волю до життя. Ви вірите, що мир кращий за війну. А я вірю, що переможна війна краща за мир. І не маю права позбавляти свій народ заслуженої перемоги. Гален. І безлічі…"

-Karel Čapek, Bílá nemoc

"Proč prosím… Když mohou lidé zabíjet olovem a plynem,… nač my doktoři máme někoho zachraňovat, ne? Kdybyste věděli, co to dá někdy práce… zachránit dítě… nebo vyhojit takový kostižer… A pak se řekne …"

-Karel Čapek, Bílá nemoc

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3. The Last Convertible

By: Anton Myrer

4.24

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Anton Myrer's beloved, bestselling novel of America's World War II generation is as powerful now as… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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4. I Served the King of England

By: Bohumil Hrabal , Paul Wilson

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-W… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
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5. R.U.R.

By: Karel Čapek , Nigel Playfair , Paul Selver

3.83

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot.… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature
"Nobody can hate man more than man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"nothing is stranger to man than his own image"

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"Robot" is a machine that makes the functions of a man."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

"A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him."

-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

6. The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles… read more

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7. The Servant of Two Masters (Plays for Performance Series)

By: Carlo Goldoni

3.83

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wai… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Lovers & Murderers by Vladimír Páral

8. Lovers & Murderers

By: Vladimír Páral

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A black comedy on the human condition, this book presents Vladimír Páral’s darkly comic vision of l… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • czech literature

7 must-read fiction books like Lovers & Murderers by Vladimír Páral

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Bílá nemoc

Karel Čapek , Michael Henry Heim

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Last Convertible

Anton Myrer

4.24

Transform Your Habits

I Served the King of England

Bohumil Hrabal , Paul Wilson

3.43

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16 must-read fiction books like R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, Nigel Playfair, Paul Selver

Transform Your Habits

Saturnin

Zdeněk Jirotka , Mark Adrian Corner

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Closely Watched Trains

Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Kytice

Karel Jaromír Erben

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Maryša

Alois Mrštík , Vilém Mrštík , Vladimír Vimr

3.43

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