6 must-read poetry books like A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes genero…

If you liked the poetry plot in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. Blow-Up and Other Stories

By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn

4.21

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading … read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century
"She smells fresh, like the shadow under trees."

-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories

"...no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse..."

-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories

"...como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa."

-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories

"Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive."

-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories

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3. Sodom and Gomorrah

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , John Sturrock

4.33

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexua… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"He lives at Balbec?"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

"کار ذهنن تا زمانی که مطیع واقعیت نیست آسان است"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

"از شکل انداختن یک شاهکار خیلی از ساختن‌اش مشکل‌تر است"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

"هر خطای برطرف شده آدمی را از حس تازه‌ای برخوردا می‌کند"

-Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

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4. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. How Fiction Works

By: James Wood

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more

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6. The Death Notebooks

By: Anne Sexton

3.26

Format: 212 pages,

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  • poetry
  • classics
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7. Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

By: Osamu Dazai

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Trouble with Being Born by Richard Howard, Emil M. Cioran

8. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • classics
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9. A Breath of Life

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Johnny Lorenz

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creati… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
  • fiction
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10. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
  • 20th century
  • fiction

11. A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes genero… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
  • philosophy
  • 20th century
  • fiction
Cover of Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Edward G. Seidensticker, Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene, Ivan Morris, None

12. Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima , Donald Keene , Ivan Morris , None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is a… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • 20th century

13. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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14. Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more

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15. Sonnets to Orpheus

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.48

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheuswere "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up an… read more

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16. Against Interpretation and Other Essays

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became … read more

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17. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott

4.11

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."

-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)

18. House of Light

By: Mary Oliver

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston GlobeLawrence L. Winship Book Award Th… read more

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19. A Short History of Decay

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more

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20. Pessoa: A Biography

By: Richard Zenith

4.54

Format: 1088 pages, Hardcover

Like Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twe… read more

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  • poetry
  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
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21. Feelings: A Story in Seasons

By: Manjit Thapp

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous visual journey through one young woman's year of emotions--from the saturated highs of e… read more

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10 Top fiction books like A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith

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The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

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Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn

4.21

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Sodom and Gomorrah

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4.33

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3.87

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Jamila Rowser

4.35

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

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