17 Best classics books like Debit and Credit by Gustav Freytag

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Debit and Credit

By: Gustav Freytag

3.39

Format: 720 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. Transit

By: Anna Seghers

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Marseille im Sommer 1940: Am Rande Europas versammeln sich die von den Nazis Verfolgten und Bedroht… read more

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"Such lies were a lot better, less hurtful than the truth would have been."

-Anna Seghers, Transit

"For the first time back then, I thought about everything seriously. The past and the future, both equally unknowable, and also this ongoing situation that the consulates call "transitory" but that we…"

-Anna Seghers, Transit

"What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year,…"

-Anna Seghers, Transit

"Then I walked down the Cours Belsunce. The nets were stretched out to dry. A couple of women mending them looked quite lost in the huge square. I had never seen them doing this before. I'm sure that …"

-Anna Seghers, Transit

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2. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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3. The Moon Is Down

By: John Steinbeck

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more

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"The fool supply was controlled..."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"The flies have conquered the flypaper."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

"...rose like cream to the top of milk."

-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down

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4. The Earth

By: Émile Zola , Douglas Parmée

4.09

Format: 506 pages, Paperback

When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same l… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Élodie, who was rising fifteen, lifted her anaemic, puffy, virginal face with its wispy hair; she was so thin-blooded that good country air seemed only to make her more sickly."

-Émile Zola, The Earth

"And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the killing of Fouan, vice triumphing, and the stinking, bloodthirsty peasants…"

-Émile Zola, The Earth

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5. Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

By: Christopher Paolini

4.10

Format: 748 pages, Hardcover

Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide. It's been only months since Eragon first utte… read more

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"Die puny human!"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"A true warrior,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"I already have one Sheepbiter here,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"Pain is pain. It needs no description."

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

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6. The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more

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"Are you still there, Axl?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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7. Barnaby Rudge

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , None , John Bowen

3.72

Format: None pages,

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspe… read more

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8. Beware of Pity

By: Stefan Zweig , Phyllis Blewitt , Trevor Blewitt

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
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9. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall

4.00

Format: 1021 pages, Paperback

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more

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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

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11. 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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  • germany
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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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12. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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13. At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #11)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up … read more

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14. Beneath the Wheel

By: Hermann Hesse , None

4.47

Format: 310 pages,

In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheelor The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respec… read more

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  • germany
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Cover of The Clown by Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz, Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda

15. The Clown

By: Heinrich Böll , Leila Vennewitz , Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t mar… read more

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  • germany
  • fiction
"I am a clown...and I collect moments."

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

"Atheisten langweilen mich, weil sie immer nur von Gott sprechen."

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

"بی خداها حوصله ام را سر می برند، چون فقط درباره خدا حرف می زنند!"

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

"An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass."

-Heinrich Böll, The Clown

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16. 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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  • fiction
"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

17. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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18. Das siebte Kreuz

By: Anna Seghers

3.80

Format: 260 pages,

Dieser Roman, der zuerst 1942 in englischer Sprache, kurz darauf im mexikanischen Exilverlag El Lib… read more

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19. The German Lesson

By: Siegfried Lenz , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German … read more

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20. A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more

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21. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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22. The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot , A.S. Byatt

3.83

Format: 579 pages, Paperback

'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?' Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie… read more

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  • fiction
"Don't judge a book by its cover"

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Don't judge a book by its cover."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

"I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."

-George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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23. Adam Bede

By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne

3.82

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more

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"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

24. The Devil's Elixirs

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , None

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travel… read more

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25. 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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  • fiction
"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

26. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more

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27. Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance. Not so very long ago, Eragon -- Shadeslayer, Drag… read more

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28. Ein Kampf um Rom

By: Felix Dahn

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

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29. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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  • fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

30. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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31. Debit and Credit

By: Gustav Freytag

3.39

Format: 720 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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