13 Top literature books like Fragments from My Diary by Maxim Gorky

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Fragments from My Diary

By: Maxim Gorky

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Examines the life of the Russian author known for his writings depicting working class life in the …

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1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

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"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

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2. Arms and the Man

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Arms and the Manis a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and publ… read more

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3. Taras Bulba

By: Nikolai Gogol , David George Hogarth

3.72

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Nicolas Gogol (1809-1852) "« Voyons, tourne-toi. Dieu, que tu es drôle ! Qu’est-ce que cette r… read more

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"I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away."

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"Our country is the one our soul longs for, the one which is dearest of all to us. My country is—you! That is my native land, and I bear that country in my heart."

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to …"

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

"Ukrayna'nın benim yurdum olduğunu kim söylüyor? Kim, ne adına orayı bana yurt olarak vermiş? Ruhumu okşayan, beni sevgiyle kucaklayan her yer ya da her şey benim yurdumdur. Benim yurdum, varlığım her…"

-Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba

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4. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

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5. L'Herbe des nuits

By: Patrick Modiano

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

' Jean... Qu'est-ce que tu dirais si j'avais fait quelque chose de grave ? ' J'avoue que cette ques… read more

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6. Heartsnatcher

By: Raymond Queneau , Boris Vian , John Sturrock , Stanley Chapman

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fai… read more

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7. If Beale Street Could Talk

By: James Baldwin

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the fa… read more

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8. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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9. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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10. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more

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11. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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12. El Llano en llamas

By: Juan Rulfo

4.47

Format: None pages,

'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more

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13. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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14. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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15. On the Eve

By: Ivan Turgenev

3.84

Format: 464 pages,

First published in 1859, On the Eve(of the Russian revolution) is another of Turgenev's lyrical ide… read more

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16. The Captain's Daughter

By: Alexander Pushkin , Robert Chandler

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also … read more

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17. In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more

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"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."

-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

18. 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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19. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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20. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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21. Fragments from My Diary

By: Maxim Gorky

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Examines the life of the Russian author known for his writings depicting working class life in the … read more

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5 must-read russia books like Fragments from My Diary by Maxim Gorky

Transform Your Habits

Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

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Taras Bulba

Nikolai Gogol , David George Hogarth

3.72

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Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

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The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

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Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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James Baldwin

3.54

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