25 best-selling fiction books like Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cover of Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.78

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieva…

If you liked the fiction plot in Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

1. Lullaby

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • novels
  • fiction
"I'm in love. So kill me."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"We're all of us haunted and haunting."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"Some people still think knowledge is power."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

Cover of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

2. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

Similar categories in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • classics
  • literature
  • 18th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Cover of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

3. Dr. Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.80

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Hell is just a frame of mind."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Be silent then, for danger is in words."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall."

-Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

Cover of Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, Philip Roth, Stuart J. Woolf

4. 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

Similar categories in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

"... 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 Il corpo sa tutto by Giorgio Amitrano, Banana Yoshimoto

5. Il corpo sa tutto

By: Giorgio Amitrano , Banana Yoshimoto

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

I racconti di Il corpo sa tutto propongono l'arduo percorso dal dolore alla guarigione attraverso u… read more

Similar categories in Giorgio Amitrano's Il corpo sa tutto book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • fiction
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

6. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Brontë's Villette book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Racconti del terrore by Edgar Allan Poe, Daniela Palladini, Isabella Donfrancesco

7. Racconti del terrore

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Daniela Palladini , Isabella Donfrancesco

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ogni racconto di Poe e un inquietante biglietto di sola andata per il cuore profondo dell'orrore. "… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Allan Poe's Racconti del terrore book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of La profezia dell'armadillo by Zerocalcare

8. La profezia dell'armadillo

By: Zerocalcare

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Centotrentasei tavole, divise in storie brevi alla sua maniera, storielle di una o quattro/cinque p… read more

Similar categories in Zerocalcare's La profezia dell'armadillo book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • fiction
Cover of The Counterfeiters by André Gide

9. The Counterfeiters

By: André Gide

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more

Similar categories in André Gide's The Counterfeiters book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) by Émile Zola, Roger Pearson

10. Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)

By: Émile Zola , Roger Pearson

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at … read more

Similar categories in Émile Zola's Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction

11. On the Shortness of Life

By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more

Similar categories in Seneca's On the Shortness of Life book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

12. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

By: José Saramago

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Unknown Binding

This is a skeptic' s journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rend… read more

Similar categories in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

Cover of The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky

13. The Gentle Spirit

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.89

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gentle Spirit book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

Cover of Il fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello

14. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

Similar categories in Luigi Pirandello's Il fu Mattia Pascal book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"E dimentichiamo spesso e volentieri di essere atomi infinitesimali per rispettarci e ammirarci a vicenda, e siamo capaci di azzuffarci per un pezzettino di terra o di dolerci di certe cose, che, ove …"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

15. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

Similar categories in Luigi Pirandello's One, None, and One Hundred Thousand book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

Cover of The Red and the Black by Stendhal, None

16. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

Similar categories in Stendhal's The Red and the Black book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

Cover of Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, Douglas Parmée

17. Bel-Ami

By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more

Similar categories in Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"In fact living is dying."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"The only certainty is death."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."

-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

Cover of Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac, Ellen Marriage, George Saintsbury

18. Lost Illusions

By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury

4.16

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more

Similar categories in Honoré de Balzac's Lost Illusions book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"For avarice begins where poverty ends."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."

-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

19. Totem and Taboo

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboowas first pub… read more

Similar categories in Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

Cover of Triste tigre by Neige Sinno

20. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

Similar categories in Neige Sinno's Triste tigre book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

Cover of Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

21. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

Similar categories in Seichō Matsumoto's Tokyo Express book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Chi dice e chi tace by Chiara Valerio

22. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Valerio's Chi dice e chi tace book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Grande meraviglia by Viola Ardone

23. Grande meraviglia

By: Viola Ardone

4.18

Format: 304 pages, ebook

«L'amore è incomprensibile, una forma di pazzia». Nel candore dello sguardo di Elba il manicomio di… read more

Similar categories in Viola Ardone's Grande meraviglia book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • fiction
Cover of Oliva Denaro by Viola Ardone

24. Oliva Denaro

By: Viola Ardone

4.41

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

«Io non lo so se sono favorevole al matrimonio. Per questo in strada vado sempre di corsa: il respi… read more

Similar categories in Viola Ardone's Oliva Denaro book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Children's Train by Viola Ardone

25. The Children's Train

By: Viola Ardone

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World W… read more

Similar categories in Viola Ardone's The Children's Train book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Il colibrì by Sandro Veronesi

26. Il colibrì

By: Sandro Veronesi

3.85

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Marco Carrera, il protagonista del nuovo romanzo di Sandro Veronesi, è il colibrì. La sua è una vit… read more

Similar categories in Sandro Veronesi's Il colibrì book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman

27. Stalingrad

By: Vasily Grossman

4.28

Format: 1088 pages, Paperback

Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate has been hailed as a twentieth-century War and Peace. However, Life… read more

Similar categories in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"But once, when she was singing his praises, her mother interrupted 'No, no, I've seen too many young people like that - both when I was a student in Petersburg and when I was in exile in Siberia. The…"

-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad

"There are people who like to ascribe only the basest of motives to the actions of others. This is not always because they act basely themselves; often they would not dream of acting as they suspect o…"

-Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad

Cover of I racconti del mistero by Edgar Allan Poe

28. I racconti del mistero

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.80

Format: 221 pages, Mass Market Paperback

EDIZIONE MIGLIORATA 29/10/2015 con NOTE DIGITALI. Edgar Allan Poe definì la sua produzione “raccont… read more

Similar categories in Edgar Allan Poe's I racconti del mistero book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

29. Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.78

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieva… read more

Similar categories in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • the world
  • fiction
  • romanticism
  • 18th century
  • novels
Cover of The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messina

30. The Heartbeat Library

By: Laura Imai Messina

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Nel sud-ovest del Giappone, in una pozza di mare condivisa da due province, Kagawa e Okayama, nuota… read more

Similar categories in Laura Imai Messina's The Heartbeat Library book and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther

  • fiction

15 best-selling novels books like Le affinità elettive - I dolori del giovane Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Transform Your Habits

Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

3.74

None

Bohumil Hrabal , Michael Henry Heim

None

Transform Your Habits

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

3.18

Transform Your Habits

The Counterfeiters

André Gide

3.54

View all the books

15 Top fiction books like Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac, Ellen Marriage, George Saintsbury

Transform Your Habits

Aurélien

Louis Aragon

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Princesse de Clèves

Madame de La Fayette

3.00

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.