21 best-selling classics books like Mogens by Jens Peter Jacobsen

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Mogens

By: Jens Peter Jacobsen

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Priča je to o mladom sanjaru i njegovom sazrijevanju kroz ljubav, tugu i nadu u novu ljubav. Mogens…

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Cover of Doctor Glas by Margaret Atwood, Hjalmar Söderberg, Paul Britten Austin

1. Doctor Glas

By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of enduring power,  Doctor Glas  confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more

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  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

Cover of The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan

2. The Ice Palace

By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more

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  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"

-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace

Cover of Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes, Ruth Harwood Cline

3. Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight with the Lion brings to life a fast-paced yet remar… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Robert A. Maguire

4. 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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  • classics
  • 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

Cover of Miss Julie by David French, August Strindberg

5. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

6. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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

7. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
"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

Cover of The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

8. The Grass Harp

By: Truman Capote

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing mis… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf, Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau, Lillie Tudeer

9. Gösta Berling's Saga

By: Selma Lagerlöf , Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau , Lillie Tudeer

5.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlof assured her place in Swedish le… read more

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  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
Cover of L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7) by Émile Zola, Robin Buss

10. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

11. The Hermit

By: Eugène Ionesco

3.65

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

In his only novel, the celebrated dramatist has chosen as his main character a man who is both utte… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

12. Ur mörkret

By: Victoria Benedictsson

4.12

Format: 176 pages, ebook

En kvinna berattar om sin uppvaxt och om sin faders forakt for kvinnor. read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

14. The Man Who Planted Trees

By: Jean Giono

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

15. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

16. Manhattan Transfer

By: John Dos Passos

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transferis an "expressionistic … read more

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17. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

18. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

19. Röda rummet

By: August Strindberg

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Roda rummet utkom hosten 1879 och inleds med det bevingade voltaireska mottot om det obehagliga i a… read more

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Cover of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann

20. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Cover of Hunger by Knut Hamsun, George Egerton

21. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

22. Den allvarsamma leken

By: Hjalmar Söderberg

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Arhundradets karlekssaga >>Mig far du alska pa ett hedniskt vis!<< sager Lydia Stille till Arvid St… read more

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23. Professor Hieronimus

By: Amalie Skram

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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24. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
"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

25. All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

More than just a classic political novel, Warren's tale of power and corruption in the Depression-e… read more

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26. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
Cover of She's Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard

27. She's Too Pretty to Burn

By: Wendy Heard

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric romance set against a rebel art scene sparks lethal danger for two girls in She's Too P… read more

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"The photo already had its hooks in me."

-Wendy Heard, She's Too Pretty to Burn

Cover of A Moth to a Flame by Stig Dagerman

28. A Moth to a Flame

By: Stig Dagerman

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, internat… read more

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  • classics
  • scandinavian literature
  • fiction
"Kärlek är någonting som man inte kan rå för."

-Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame

"Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven."

-Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame

"Real dread is knowing that your thoughts lie to you, even when you think you are being honest"

-Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame

"Wise, because wisdom is to be in love with life, whereas foolishness is to be ashamed of love"

-Stig Dagerman, A Moth to a Flame

Cover of En dødsnat by Marie Bregendahl

29. En dødsnat

By: Marie Bregendahl

3.74

Format: 132 pages, None

Marie BregendahlsEn Dødsnat er uhørt moderne. Og også meget mere moderne end det meste af det, der … read more

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  • classics
"The blacker the prospects and the harder it was to hope, the more firmly they grasped at hope when it flickered forth."

-Marie Bregendahl, En dødsnat

"Ah yes—could it really be said that people who had no hope in their hearts were alive? Sina thought not. Well, of course they ‘jogged along,’ as she expressed it; they could do that all right; but ac…"

-Marie Bregendahl, En dødsnat

Cover of Mogens by Jens Peter Jacobsen

30. Mogens

By: Jens Peter Jacobsen

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Priča je to o mladom sanjaru i njegovom sazrijevanju kroz ljubav, tugu i nadu u novu ljubav. Mogens… read more

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  • classics
  • denmark
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • scandinavian literature
Cover of Idyl (Danish Edition) by Henrik Pontoppidan

31. Idyl (Danish Edition)

By: Henrik Pontoppidan

2.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Det er sensommer ude på landet og både bønder og fattigfolk glæder sig til høstgildet på Mikkelsdag… read more

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21 Best fiction books like Mogens by Jens Peter Jacobsen

Transform Your Habits

Doctor Glas

Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion

Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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8 Best classics books like En dødsnat by Marie Bregendahl

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Fiskerne

Hans Kirk

3.82

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Miss Julie

David French , August Strindberg

3.87

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A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

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