5 Best 19th century books like Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev

Cover of Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev

Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

By: Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev

3.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

I was living at the time in Petersburg and had only just left the University. My brother was a lieu…

If you liked the 19th century plot in Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann, Geoff Wilkes

1. Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes

4.26

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more

Similar categories in Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

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

2. 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 Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • russia
  • russian literature
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • 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 Silas Marner by George Eliot

3. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

Similar categories in George Eliot's Silas Marner book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • 19th century
  • classics
  • fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

Cover of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, None, None

4. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

Similar categories in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • russia
  • russian literature
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Cover of Hunger by Knut Hamsun, George Egerton

5. 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

Similar categories in Knut Hamsun's Hunger book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • 19th century
  • classics
  • 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

6. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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7. Blindness

By: José Saramago

4.17

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more

Similar categories in José Saramago's Blindness book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."

-José Saramago, Blindness

Cover of Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev

8. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

By: Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev

3.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

I was living at the time in Petersburg and had only just left the University. My brother was a lieu… read more

Similar categories in Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • russia
  • russian literature
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Aeneid by Virgil

9. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

Similar categories in Virgil's The Aeneid book and Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev's Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

  • classics
  • fiction
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

8 Best fiction books like Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett Ivan Turgenev

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Every Man Dies Alone

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4.26

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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Silas Marner

George Eliot

3.68

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Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

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La tregua

Mario Benedetti

4.18

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.94

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