11 best-selling 20th century books like La vita interiore by Alberto Moravia

Cover of La vita interiore by Alberto Moravia

La vita interiore

By: Alberto Moravia

3.64

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Paris. 17 cm. 443 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Francés. Texte im…

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Cover of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, John Bayley, Manya Harari, Max Hayward

1. Doctor Zhivago

By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Only the superfluous is sordid"

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."

-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

Cover of The Little Virtues by Dick Davis, Natalia Ginzburg

2. The Little Virtues

By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg

4.10

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • italian literature
"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

Cover of The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. The Love of the Last Tycoon

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year a… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"There’s a writer for you,"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

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

4. 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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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"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

Cover of The Kreutzer Sonata by Doris Lessing, Leo Tolstoy, Isai Kamen

5. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

Cover of Immortality by Milan Kundera

6. Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."

-Milan Kundera, Immortality

Cover of Identity by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

7. Identity

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

8. The Art of the Novel

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes,… read more

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  • literature
Cover of Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich

9. Asleep

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Michael Emmerich

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she s… read more

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

10. 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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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, Ronald Wilks

11. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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12. De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Fontamara by Ignazio Silone

13. Fontamara

By: Ignazio Silone

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fontamara fu pubblicato a Zurigo nel 1933. Ambientato in un paesino abruzzese, Fontamara appunto, r… read more

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  • italy
  • italian literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. Tales of the Jazz Age

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

"The Jelly-Bean" "The Camel's Back" "May Day" "Porcelain and Pink" "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
Cover of Le ragazze di Sanfrediano by Vasco Pratolini

15. Le ragazze di Sanfrediano

By: Vasco Pratolini

3.88

Format: 0 pages,

L'atroce vendetta delle belle del quartiere Il mondo del quartiere, la rappresentazione corale dell… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • novels
Cover of Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera, حسین کاظمی‌یزدی, Suzanne Rappaport

16. Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمی‌یزدی , Suzanne Rappaport

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Michael Cunningham, Michael Henry Heim

17. 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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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Follia by Patrick McGrath, Matteo Codignola

18. 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 Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Monty

19. The Beautiful and Damned

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald , Monty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damnedfollowed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This S… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels

20. La luna e i falò

By: Cesare Pavese , Gian Luigi Beccaria

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nell'aprile del 1950 e considerato dalla critica il libro piu bello di Pavese, "La luna … read more

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21. 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

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

22. 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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  • literature
"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)

23. L'isola di Arturo

By: Elsa Morante

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Il romanzo e un'esplorazione attenta della prima realta verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita.… read more

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24. This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

Cover of L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra by Michael Bible

25. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Cover of Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento by Stefania Andreoli

26. Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

By: Stefania Andreoli

4.05

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Che cosa significa essere adulti oggi? E come diventarlo? Se negli ultimi decenni l'identità adulta… read more

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"E come Lei ben saprà, è un attimo sentirsi rotti, mal funzionanti, difettosi. Da lontano, in mezzo alla folla, L'ho ascoltata legittimare il mio essere una giovane adulta confusa. Lei non lo sa, ma i…"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

"La paura, di cui questo libro contiene tracce ricorrenti nelle testimonianze dei suoi protagonisti (la paura del giudizio, la paura del fallimento, la paura di non divenire, la paura di affrancarsi, …"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

"A ventidue anni aveva avuto conferma di una cosa che alcuni muoiono senza capire mai, ovvero che arriva per tutti un momento a partire dal quale o la tua vita la vivi tu oppure qualche abusivo si sen…"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

"Giovanni, in proposito, mi ha detto: «Sono talmente confuso che non riesco a immaginarmelo, un domani. Non c'è nessun posto che faccia per me, nessuna condizione di vita nella quale mi vedo. Non mi è…"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

Cover of Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

27. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • fiction
  • italian literature
  • novels
Cover of Génie la matta by Inès Cagnati

28. Génie la matta

By: Inès Cagnati

4.12

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Questo romanzo è la storia dell'amore, lancinante e assoluto, di una figlia, Marie, nata da uno stu… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante

29. Lies and Sorcery

By: Elsa Morante

4.16

Format: 800 pages, Paperback

Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more

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  • italy
  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • italian literature
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Free Day by Inès Cagnati

30. Free Day

By: Inès Cagnati

3.83

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycl… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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31. La vita interiore

By: Alberto Moravia

3.64

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Paris. 17 cm. 443 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Francés. Texte im… read more

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24 best-selling fiction books like La vita interiore by Alberto Moravia

Transform Your Habits

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Love of the Last Tycoon

F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Kreutzer Sonata

Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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