13 Best classics books like Racconti e novelle by Guy de Maupassant

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Racconti e novelle

By: Guy de Maupassant

4.07

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

Scrittura scorrevole, acutezza dello sguardo sul mondo, attenzione a un'umanità piccola e affaccend…

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Cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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2. The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves

3.64

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

In the heart of Calcutta lurks a dark mystery. . . . Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, The Midnight … read more

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  • fiction
"Matematika je religija za ljude s mozgom, zato ima tako malo pristaša."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)

"La mayoría de las tradiciones no son más que las enfermedades de una sociedad."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)

"Kakav smo to svijet napravili kad u njemu više ni neznalice ne mogu da budu srećne?"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)

"حریفمان آماده بود تا دست به خطر بزند و ما دانش یا تجربه ی هماوردی با او را نداشتیم."

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)

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3. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, William Weaver

5. Zeno's Conscience

By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Il giorno della civetta

By: Leonardo Sciascia

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto Leonardo Scias… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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  • fiction
"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

Cover of The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

8. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • short stories
  • france
  • classics
  • fiction
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9. 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
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10. Marcovaldo

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more

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  • short stories
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, William Weaver

11. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. Il visconte dimezzato

By: Italo Calvino

3.82

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui] Il narratore rievoca la storia… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"نظراً لقلة معرفتهم بكل ما هو خطيئة ,كانوا يضاعفون في الممنوعات حتى لا يخطئوا."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

"Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

"جوانی... سنی که احساس ها هنوز حالتی مبهم دارند و خیر و شر هنوز مشخص نیست، سنی که عشق به زندگی به هر تجربه جدید، حتی غیر انسانی و مرگبار، حدت و جوش و خروش خاصی می بخشد."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

13. 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

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

14. 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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  • classics
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Gulliver’s Travels by Louis Rhead, Jonathan Swift, William Dean Howells, Robert DeMaria Jr.

15. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

16. Dalla parte delle bambine

By: Elena Gianini Belotti

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

La tradizionale differenza di caratteri tra maschio e femmina non e dovuta a fattori innati, bensi … read more

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17. 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
  • france
  • 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

18. La malora

By: Beppe Fenoglio , Maria Antonietta Grignani

3.80

Format: 212 pages,

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1954 nella collana dei <>, due anni dopo I ventitre giorni della … read more

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19. Ferrovie del Messico

By: Gian Marco Griffi

4.10

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of La ricreazione è finita by Dario Ferrari

20. La ricreazione è finita

By: Dario Ferrari

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Racconti e novelle

By: Guy de Maupassant

4.07

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

Scrittura scorrevole, acutezza dello sguardo sul mondo, attenzione a un'umanità piccola e affaccend… read more

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  • short stories
  • france
  • classics
  • fiction

18 Top fiction books like Racconti e novelle by Guy de Maupassant

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)

Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

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

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Zeno's Conscience

Italo Svevo , William Weaver

4.25

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Romanzo senza umani

Paolo Di Paolo

3.09

Transform Your Habits

Chi dice e chi tace

Chiara Valerio

3.77

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Gian Marco Griffi

4.10

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L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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