6 Best short stories books like Magia by Sándor Márai

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Magia

By: Sándor Márai

3.73

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak

1. Quo Vadis

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz , W.S. Kuniczak

4.01

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome--from the Forum to the Coliseum, fr… read more

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"If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?"

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

"-Моето щастие мина, и радостта ми отмина, но аз не съм зла."

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

"Светът е измамен, а животът е илюзия. Трябва да имаш достатъчно ум за да различиш приятните от лошите илюзии."

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

"Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure. And death itself, which for you is the end of life, is for us merely its beginning,—t…"

-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

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2. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more

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"I have always disapproved of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

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3. Pan Tadeusz

By: Adam Mickiewicz , Kenneth R. MacKenzie

3.00

Format: 598 pages, Paperback

An epic tale of country life among the Polish and Lithuanian gentry in 1811-1812, PAN TADEUSZ by Ad… read more

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"Good boozers make good bruisers."

-Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

"No frogs can sing as well as Polish ones."

-Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

"True, in her gown she had a fuller figure—but cltohes make some things smaller, some things bigger."

-Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

"Tėvyne Lietuva, mielesnė už sveikatą! Kaip reik tave branginti, vien tik tas pamato, Kas jau tavęs neteko…"

-Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz

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4. Oscar et la dame rose

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Voici les lettres adressées à Dieu par un enfant de dix ans. Elles ont été retrouvées par Mamie Ros… read more

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"Nessuno può evitare di soffrire."

-Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oscar et la dame rose

"Codziennie patrz na świat, jakbyś oglądał go po raz pierwszy."

-Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oscar et la dame rose

"Oscar, la malattia è come la morte. E' un fatto. Non è una punizione."

-Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oscar et la dame rose

"[...] es gibt gar keine Erklärung fürs Leben, man muß es einfach leben."

-Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oscar et la dame rose

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5. Dziady

By: Adam Mickiewicz

3.31

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Dziady to cykl czterech dramatów polskiego poety Adama Mickiewicza wydanych w latach 1822–1860. Opr… read more

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"Today Gustaw has died, today Konrad was born"

-Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady

"as for those of you who are complicit, it is not you that I want to destroy, but your shackles"

-Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady

"I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies."

-Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady

"Bo słuchajmy i zważmy u siebie, Że według bożego rozkazu: Kto za życia choć raz był w niebie, Ten po śmierci nie trafi od razu."

-Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady

Cover of Demian by Hermann Hesse

6. Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more

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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

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7. The Magician of Lublin

By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his e… read more

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8. Travesuras de la niña mala

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

?Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor? Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueno que e… read more

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9. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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10. Panny z Wilka

By: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

Klasyka literatury polskiej. Jedno z najlepszych opowiadan Jaroslawa Iwaszkiewicza - mistrza gatunk… read more

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11. Phaedo

By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more

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12. W pustyni i w puszczy

By: Henryk Sienkiewicz

3.58

Format: 366 pages,

Stas Tarkowski i Nel Rawilison to dzieci inzynierow budujacych Kanal Sueski w Egipcie, gdzie toczy … read more

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13. 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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14. Chłopi

By: None , Władysław Stanisław Reymont

3.41

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

O wartości Chłopów decyduje przede wszystkim rozmach, z jakim powieść ta została napisana. Nadano j… read more

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15. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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16. Ferdydurke

By: Witold Gombrowicz , Danuta Borchardt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himsel… read more

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"Oy, stil – tiranların aleti!"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"Yakında kendi kişiliklerimizden ve kişiselliklerimizden korkmaya başlayacağız, çünkü onların hiç de sonuna kadar bizim olmadıkları, bizler için apaçık olacak. Ve “Ben buna inanıyorum – ben bunu hisse…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in impl…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"Sonuna kadar insan olmayanların sonuna kadar dünya olmayan dünyasını bir ân bile unutamıyordum -ve panikle korka korka, acayip iğrene iğrene, onun bataklık yeşilini sadece gözümde canlandırdığımda bi…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

17. The Children of Noisy Village

By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Florence Lamborn

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmas… read more

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18. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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19. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more

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"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

20. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

Cover of The Street of Crocodiles by Jonathan Safran Foer, Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski, Celina Wieniewska

21. The Street of Crocodiles

By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more

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  • short stories
"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."

-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles

22. Nad Niemnem

By: Eliza Orzeszkowa

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Nad Niemnem to najbardziej znana powiesc Orzeszkowej. Prezentuje ona panoramiczny obraz polskiego s… read more

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23. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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24. Conversation in the Cathedral

By: Gregory Rabassa , Mario Vargas Llosa

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cath… read more

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25. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.17

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innov… read more

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"Total annihilation has a way of sharpening people's minds."

-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

"Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question."

-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

"So if you want to know the truth about the universe, about the meaning of life, and about your own identity, the best place to start is by observing suffering and exploring what it is. The answer isn…"

-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

"To survive and flourish in such a world, you will need a lot of mental flexibility and great reserves of emotional balance. You will have to repeatedly let go of some of what you know best, and feel …"

-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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26. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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  • short stories
"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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27. Wrony

By: Petra Dvořáková

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Bestseller z Czech! Kameralna opowieść o świetle i mroku. W gałęziach starego wiązu zagnieździła… read more

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28. Opowiadania bizarne

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Świat staje się coraz bardziej bizarny. Najnowszy zbiór opowiadań Olgi Tokarczuk. Zaskakujące i… read more

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  • short stories
"Człowiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, że go widzisz, ale dlatego, że to on na ciebie patrzy."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Opowiadania bizarne

"Діти це знають найкраще: саму смерть ще якось можна пережити. Найгіршим буває те, що повторюється, ритмічне, незмінне, передбачуване, неминуче й безвладне - те, на що неможливо вплинути і що хапає св…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, Opowiadania bizarne

29. Brzezina

By: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

3.91

Format: 139 pages, None

Opowiadanie rozpoczyna się przyjazdem młodego, chorego na gruźlicę Stanisława do małej leśniczówki … read more

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  • short stories
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30. Merkúr ​a retrográdban

By: Éva Szentesi

3.64

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A Merkúr a retrográdban nem szokványos szerelmi történet, hiszen ritka, hogy az ember éppen akkor t… read more

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31. Magia

By: Sándor Márai

3.73

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

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