14 Best classics books like Gedichte by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Gedichte

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

3.66

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Gedichte Hugo von Hofmannsthal, österreichischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Lyriker (1874-1929)…

"So las ich falsch in deinem Aug, dem tiefen? Kein heimlich Sehnen sah ich heiß dort funkeln? Es birgt zu deiner Seele keine Pforte Dein feuchter Blick? Die Wünsche, die dort schliefen, Wie stille Rosen in der Flut, der dunkeln, Sind, wie dein Plaudern: seellos... Worte, Worte?"

-Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gedichte

If you liked the classics plot in Gedichte by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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2. 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

Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

3. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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4. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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5. Maria Stuart

By: Friedrich Schiller , Wilhelm Große

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Nach meiner Ansicht ist Maria Stuartdie pathetischste und am besten durchdachte von allen deutsche… read more

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  • classics
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6. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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7. Bahnwärter Thiel

By: Gerhart Hauptmann

2.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Gerhart Hauptmanns 1888 erschienene "novellistische Studie" 'Bahnwarter Thiel' ist das erste bedeut… read more

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  • classics

8. The Neverending Story

By: Michael Ende , Roswitha Quadflieg , Ralph Manheim

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics

9. Todesmärchen (Maarten S. Sneijder, #3)

By: Andreas Gruber

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Es war einmal in dunkler, abgrundtiefer Nacht ein boser, bitterboser Mann ... In Bern wird die kuns… read more

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10. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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11. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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12. 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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"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

13. Das Fräulein von Scuderi

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Spat um Mitternacht - es mochte im Herbste des Jahres 1680 sein - wurde an dieses Haus hart und hef… read more

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14. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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15. The Glass Bead Game

By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more

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16. 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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17. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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18. 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)

19. The World of Yesterday

By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more

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20. Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mark Doty , A. Poulin Jr.

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Rilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the … read more

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21. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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22. La Dame aux Camélias

By: Alexandre Dumas fils , David Coward

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dum… read more

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"Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down."

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

"La vida es maravillosa, querido. Depende del color del cristal con que se mira"

-Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias

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23. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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24. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

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25. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

Cover of Gewitterleuchten (Sturm-Trilogie, #3) by Anya Omah

26. Gewitterleuchten (Sturm-Trilogie, #3)

By: Anya Omah

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Ich kann dich nicht hassen Ausgerechnet Leo. Wieso muss es ausgerechnet sie sein, die ihm im Kra… read more

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  • german literature
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27. The Perfect Nanny

By: Leïla Slimani

3.40

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780143132172. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer… read more

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"The baby is dead."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Nous devons prouver que, vous aussi, vous êtes une victime."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’ ‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

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28. Crossroads

By: Jonathan Franzen

4.06

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more

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"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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29. Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

By: Wolfram Eilenberger

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenste… read more

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  • german literature
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30. Worlds Collide (Worlds #1)

By: Anabelle Stehl

4.05

Format: 567 pages, Paperback

Fiona hat es geschafft: Sie ist eine der erfolgreichsten Beauty-YouTuberinnen Englands, reist von E… read more

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31. Gedichte

By: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

3.66

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Gedichte Hugo von Hofmannsthal, österreichischer Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Lyriker (1874-1929)… read more

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"So las ich falsch in deinem Aug, dem tiefen? Kein heimlich Sehnen sah ich heiß dort funkeln? Es birgt zu deiner Seele keine Pforte Dein feuchter Blick? Die Wünsche, die dort schliefen, Wie stille Ros…"

-Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gedichte

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Demian

Hermann Hesse

4.14

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Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Maria Stuart

Friedrich Schiller , Wilhelm Große

4.33

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E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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