13 must-read classics books like Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke by Bertolt Brecht

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Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke

By: Bertolt Brecht

3.44

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

English (translation)Original German

"THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction."

-Bertolt Brecht, Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke

"THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction."

-Bertolt Brecht, Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke

"THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction."

-Bertolt Brecht, Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke

If you liked the classics plot in Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke by Bertolt Brecht , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

1. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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  • fiction
"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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

2. 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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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"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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3. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • classics
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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4. 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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  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction
"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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5. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, Libby Purves, Geoff Woollen

6. The Last Day of a Condemned Man

By: Victor Hugo , Libby Purves , Geoff Woollen

3.98

Format: 109 pages, Paperback

Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vi… read more

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  • fiction
"إن الموت يجعلني إنساناً شريراً !!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"كنت قادراً على التفكير في كل ما يسرني ، لأني كنتُ حراً"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"¡Cuantós han muerto habiendo hecho planes para una larga vida!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

"ماذا عراني فصرت بهذه الدرجة من التخاذل والإنهيار؟ إن باب القبر لا يُفتح من الداخل!!"

-Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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7. Tonio Kröger

By: Thomas Mann , J. White

3.73

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabular… read more

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  • classics
  • germany
  • fiction
"A felicidade é amar e talvez colher pequenas aproximações ilusórias da pessoa amada."

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"Vuole credere lei che sarei orgoglioso e felice di possedere un amico tra gli uomini? Ma fino ad ora ho avuto amici solo tra demoni, farfarelli, mostri oscuri e fantasmi afasiaci, vale a dire: tra le…"

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"ბედნიერება იმაში კი არ არის, რომ უყვარდეთ; ეს გაძლევს მხოლოდ კმაყოფილების გრძნობას. იყო ბედნიერი - ნიშნავს გიყვარდეს, დაიჭირო წარმავალი, შესაძლოა მაცდური წამიერი გაელვებები, შენი სიყვარულის ობიექტის …"

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

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8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

9. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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10. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • fiction

11. The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more

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12. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

13. A Hero of Our Time

By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more

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14. Dantons Tod

By: Georg Büchner

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Ti einai auto mesa mas pou aselgei, pseudetai, klebei kai skotonei; Marionetes eimaste pou tis trab… read more

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15. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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16. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

Cover of Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen

17. Eugene Onegin

By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"He's happy now, he's almost sane."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."

-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Cover of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Henry Gifford

18. War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford

4.16

Format: 1392 pages, Paperback

In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"God is the same everywhere."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Kings are the slaves of history."

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"

-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

19. Die Maßnahme: Zwei Fassungen, Anmerkungen

By: Bertolt Brecht

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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20. Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke

By: Bertolt Brecht

3.44

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

English (translation)Original German read more

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"THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction."

-Bertolt Brecht, Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke

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Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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Demian

Hermann Hesse

4.14

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Joan Didion , David Thomson

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Transform Your Habits

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Toni Morrison

4.12

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