5 best-selling 20th century books like Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Sternhell

Cover of Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Sternhell

Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France

By: Zeev Sternhell

3.97

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote …

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Cover of Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cyril Barrett

1. Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Cyril Barrett

3.83

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of student… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almost like to talk of what could be meant by Aesthetics. You might think Aesthetics is a science tellin…"

-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief

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2. The Plague

By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • 20th century
"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

Cover of Austerlitz by Anthea Bell, W.G. Sebald

3. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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4. The Plot Against America

By: Philip Roth

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more

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Cover of The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, Bruce Penman

5. The Betrothed

By: Alessandro Manzoni , Bruce Penman

3.85

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Gyldendal-klassiker. Med utgivelsen av Alessandro Manzonis Dei trulovade i Gyldendals nye klassiker… read more

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"Costui, [...] un giorno osò rivolgerle il discorso. La sventurata rispose."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him"

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"He who utters falsehoods to the [lawyer] is a fool who will tell the truth to the judge."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

"Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi."

-Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed

Cover of The Clown by Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz, Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda

6. The Clown

By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz , Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t mar… read more

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  • 20th century
"I am a clown...and I collect moments."

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

"بی خداها حوصله ام را سر می برند، چون فقط درباره خدا حرف می زنند!"

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

"Atheisten langweilen mich, weil sie immer nur von Gott sprechen."

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

"An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass."

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

Cover of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Archibald Colquhoun

7. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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  • 20th century
"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

8. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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9. How I Stopped Being a Jew

By: Shlomo Sand , David Fernbach

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the famil… read more

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10. A Pigeon and a Boy

By: Meir Shalev , Evan Fallenberg

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

From the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev comes a mesmerizing novel of two love… read more

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11. The Kindly Ones

By: Jonathan Littell , Charlotte Mandell

3.94

Format: 229 pages,

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Timesof London "Oh my human brothers, let m… read more

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12. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

Cover of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, Pınar Kür, Daphne Hardy

13. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • 20th century
"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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14. Serotonin

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.58

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more

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  • france
"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."

-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

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15. Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France

By: Zeev Sternhell

3.97

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote … read more

Similar categories in Zeev Sternhell's Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France book and Zeev Sternhell's Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • european history
  • economics

9 Best classics books like American Pastoral by Philip Roth

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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John Updike

4.26

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