15 Top fiction books like Päivällisvieras ja muita kertomuksia by Marcel Proust

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Päivällisvieras ja muita kertomuksia

By: Marcel Proust

3.70

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Päivällisvieras ja muita kertomuksia sisältää neljä novellia Proustin esikoisteoksesta Les Plaisirs…

If you liked the fiction plot in Päivällisvieras ja muita kertomuksia by Marcel Proust , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

1. An Artist of the Floating World

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.77

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more

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  • fiction
"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

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2. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • fiction
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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3. 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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  • fiction
"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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4. Purple Hibiscus

By: None

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. Suomalainen kansanusko: samaaneista saunatonttuihin

By: Risto Pulkkinen

3.83

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Mita suomalaiset ovat ajatelleet itsestaan, tamanpuoleisesta ja tuonpuoleisesta, maailman synnysta … read more

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7. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. There Are Realistic Alternatives

By: Gene Sharp

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

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9. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Broken Wings

By: Kahlil Gibran , None

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental … read more

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  • fiction

11. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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12. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

By: Kiran Desai

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. Al… read more

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13. Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and ad… read more

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14. The Beach

By: Alex Garland

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

After discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon fi… read more

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15. The End of Eddy

By: Édouard Louis , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more

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16. Memory of Water

By: Emmi Itäranta

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and C… read more

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17. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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  • fiction
"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

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18. 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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  • fiction
"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

Cover of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford

19. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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  • fiction
"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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20. Huono tyttö

By: Sara Al Husaini

4.03

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Vuoden pakolaisnaisen omakohtainen esikoisromaani ravistelee ytimiä myöten. Äiti saattaa pelosta… read more

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21. Sinun, Margot

By: Meri Valkama

4.05

Format: 556 pages, Hardcover

Kiehtova esikoisromaani muistin hauraudesta ja vaikenemisen voimasta Kuka ihminen lopulta on, jo… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Margarita

By: Anni Kytömäki

4.27

Format: 581 pages, Hardcover

Kun helmenpyytäjä avaa simpukan, se kuolee. Kun ihmisen kuoreen kajotaan, seuraukset voivat olla yh… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Ainoa kotini

By: Hanna Brotherus

3.51

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Kuka on elämäsi tärkein ihminen? Ainoa kotini on rohkea romaani naisen halusta nähdä itsensä kok… read more

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24. Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

By: Viv Groskop

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Life lessons from Russian Literature As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything tha… read more

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"We spend our whole lives looking for things that are meant to be, hoping that fate will guide us, rather than taking responsibility for our own choices."

-Viv Groskop, Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

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25. Päivällisvieras ja muita kertomuksia

By: Marcel Proust

3.70

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Päivällisvieras ja muita kertomuksia sisältää neljä novellia Proustin esikoisteoksesta Les Plaisirs… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. Konsta Pylkkänen etsii kortteeria

By: Veikko Huovinen

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Suomen kuuluisin korpifilosofi Pylkkäs-Konsta palaa yhtä sanavalmiina, piiputtelevana ja ajatteleva… read more

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  • fiction
"Voi ihmishenki miten asut resusessa pesässä!"

-Veikko Huovinen, Konsta Pylkkänen etsii kortteeria

"Naiset on ylejään melko tärkeitä luonnon järjestelmässä, melkein kaikki kotoisuus riippuu niistä, paitsi joskus. Miehet tekevät karkeita ryskätöitä ja ampuvat tykillä maailman sotakentillä, mutta nai…"

-Veikko Huovinen, Konsta Pylkkänen etsii kortteeria

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Satu Rämö

3.58

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Satu Rämö

3.63

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4.38

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