9 Top classics books like Die kleine Stadt by Heinrich Mann

Cover of Die kleine Stadt by Heinrich Mann

Die kleine Stadt

By: Heinrich Mann

3.15

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

›Die kleine Stadt‹ liegt in Italien. Alles beginnt mit dem Erscheinen einer Theatertruppe in der kl…

If you liked the classics plot in Die kleine Stadt by Heinrich Mann , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

1. The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • classics
  • fiction
"Lonely was much better than alone."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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2. Invisible Man

By: Ralph Ellison

3.91

Format: 581 pages, Paperback

First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more

Similar categories in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • classics
  • fiction
"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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

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

Similar categories in Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • 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 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, T.J. Reed

4. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

5. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

Similar categories in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction
Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

6. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • classics
  • fiction

7. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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Cover of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

Similar categories in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • classics
  • fiction
"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Cover of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine

9. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

Similar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • fiction
"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Cover of The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life by John P. Strelecky

10. The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

By: John P. Strelecky

3.55

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a m… read more

Similar categories in John P. Strelecky's The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • german literature
  • fiction
"Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt."

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"As I was floating on the surface, I realized something: When the turtle was swimming, it linked its movements to the movements of the water. When a wave was coming at him, he would float, and paddle …"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

Cover of Die kleine Stadt by Heinrich Mann

11. Die kleine Stadt

By: Heinrich Mann

3.15

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

›Die kleine Stadt‹ liegt in Italien. Alles beginnt mit dem Erscheinen einer Theatertruppe in der kl… read more

Similar categories in Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt book and Heinrich Mann's Die kleine Stadt

  • german literature
  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction

11 Best fiction books like Die kleine Stadt by Heinrich Mann

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

3.91

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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